Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1919 — MUST PAY FOR FLEET [ARTICLE]

MUST PAY FOR FLEET

MRMANY SENT NEW ULTIMATUM BY ALLIES. Ne Peace Until the Berlin Government Fulfills Terms of November 11. “Washington, Nov. 7. —Notice was served on Germany by the allied and associated powers in a note and accompanying protocol, forwarded last 'Saturday, that the treaty of peace Would not go Into force until Germany ecrecutes obligations assumed under the armistice convention and additional agreements. The note provides that the German government shall send representatives to Paris November 10 to make tinal arrangements for tiu* putting into effect of the treaty. But the note speciifies that before the treaty can be made through the deposit of the iratiflcatlons the German representatives shall obligate their nation to (carry out the terms of the protocol The protocol contains a number of i obligations assumed by Germany tn the armistice convention and complementary agreements which have not been carried out and which luwe been the subject of urgent representations. These Include the withdrawal of Ger-, man troops from Russian territory and the delivery of certain German tonnage. ' Most important, however, in the obligations Germany is asked to assume under the protocol is the replacing of vessels destroyed at Scapa Flow with five light cruisers, and to make up for the first-class battleships sunk at Scapa Flow by turning over floating docks and cranes, tugs and dredges equivalent to a total displacement of 1400,000 tons.