Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — HUNS REJECTS TREATY TERMS [ARTICLE]

HUNS REJECTS TREATY TERMS

Sharp Reaction Reported Fallowing Senate's Failure to Ratify. Paris, Dec. 3. —Germany has decided not to sign the (protocol presented to her by the allies as a condition for putting the peace treaty Into effect, the peace conference has been notified. It .was learned today that Baron Kurt von Lersnpr, head of the German delegation here, called on Secretary of the conference Monday and told him that Germany had made such a decision. This attitude Is taken as confirming reports of a sharp reaction in Germany within the last fortnight. Trained observers of German developments have expressed to members of the peace conference the view that there has been a complete transformation of the situation in Germany and that it is due to the failure of the United States senate to ratify the peace treaty. These observers assert that while the vast majority of the Germans, before the senate’s adjournment, desired to have the peace treaty ratified as soon as possible 1 , they are now supporting the government’s attitude in resisting the demands of the allies for Indemnity for the sinking of the German fleet at Scapa Flow, recompense for which was provided in the protocol. The question on which the German representatives here, however, appear most sensitive, is the insistence on the trial of German officers accusd of the commission of crimes in France and Belgium. Thus far, it is said, no indications have reached Paris of any disposition on the part of the Germans to modify their attitude. The supreme council today ad J dressed a note to Germany protesting against the Increase of Germany’s armament, contrary to the provisions of the peace treaty.