Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1919 — HUN PEACE CHIEF IS BACK [ARTICLE]

HUN PEACE CHIEF IS BACK

From Spa Where He Went Saturday For a Conference. AUSTRIAN PACT NOT READY Indication* Are That Grrmaaa Will Koon Place Their Signature* to the Peace Agreement. Faris, May 19. —Marshal Foch today laid before the council of four hl" plan for military operations that are to be put Into effect in case the German plenipotentiaries decline to sign the peace treaty. After t>he conference between Marshal Fooh and the council of four President Wilson had a talk with General Pershing. ' It became known later that General Pershing’s visit to London may be postponed in order to await developments. It is asserted by the newspapers that the council of four will decide to Internationalise the city of Flume, because no other arrangement cduld be accepted by both Italy and Jugo-Slavia. Not alone has Count von Brock-dorff-Rantsau, chief of the German peace plenipotentiaries, returned to Versailles from Spa, where he went Saturday for a conference, but he brought back with him Herr Landsburg and Herr Giesberts, two of tie main members of the German delegation, who had been In Berlin going over the situation with the authorities, and also a large retinue of naVal, military and financial experts. Thus, indicationa are that the Germans Intend to continue their efforts to come into agreement with the allied and associated representatives on peace terms that will be satisfactory to the German government and people. Meanwhile reports continue to emanate from Germany of dissatisfaction over the terms laid down for Germany to sign and a reiteration by President Ebert that the Germans will never affix their signatures to the treaty as It stands and that foreign countries will protest with Germany against “this peace enslavement.’’ , On the other hand, Field Marshal von Hindenburg Is reported to have told the members of the German cabinet, representatives of the political parties and other leaders at a meeting in Berlin Friday that resistance was Impossible and that the military leaders considered it necessary to seal the compact as desired by the allies.