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Show .. m . . ... . . , ..; .. ...... ( ' t. , ' 1 " I At,. - -- .1 4'' '" i ' 1 Naval seaplane F-5, In which tour navy aviaiors recently made a nonstop flight of 20 hours nnd 10 minutes. 2 Now photograph of Kivime, which probably will go to' Italy after 1!)2S. 3 Olyntho tie Magalhaes, minister from Brazil to France nntl one of the LSnizilfan delegates to the peace conference. NEWS REVIEW OF CURREIITEVEIITS Germany Considering the Treaty Which Strips Her of Much ' Land and All Power. FRANCE WILL BE PROTECTED Von Brockdorff-Rantzau and Associates Associ-ates Are Expected to Make Counter Coun-ter Proposals Allied Council Working on Terms for Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria. By EjWARD W. PICKARD. "The time h;is come when we must settle our account," said Clemenceau, and thereupon be handed to the representatives repre-sentatives of Germany what be aptly called a "book" some S0.000 words .of peace terms to which Germany is required re-quired to give adherence. When this is done indeed, whether or not it is done Germany stands shorn of virtually vir-tually all .of her military and naval power and of more than a million square miles of territory, and economically economi-cally and financially bound until she has paid for the tremendous damage 6he wrought In the war. Whether by intention or by accident, the day was well chosen for the delivery deliv-ery to the Germans of the document so fateful o them and 'their country. It was May 7, the fourth anniversary of one of their most shocking crimes, the sinking of the Lusitania. The reception re-ception of the delegates from Berlin was deliberately cool and the proceedings proceed-ings in the Versailles palace were marked by a1 stern formality. There was no smallest pretense of cordiality on the part of the representatives of the allied and associated powers, for they felt none. "You have asked for peace. We are ready to give you peace" were Clemenceau's words, but the peace offered will be as gall and wormwood in the mouths of the Germans. Ger-mans. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, replying re-plying for the enemy delegation, admitted ad-mitted the utter defeat of Germany, but denied her sole culpability for the war: He intimated plainly that Germany Ger-many would put in a counter claim for damages because of the loss of life due to the blockade, and that in gen-feral gen-feral she would take her stand on President Pres-ident Wilson's fourteen points in opposing op-posing what she might consider oppressive oppres-sive in the treaty. Indeed, it is clear that the Germans intend to pay much more attention to those points than do lie allies. What this will avail them Js not difficult to forecast. Before getting get-ting the treaty they said unofficially that they would sign it, but that Germany Ger-many never would pay an indemnity, by which they presumably meant penal damages such "as Bismarck exacted from France In 1S71. The treaty does not call for the payment of an indemnity, in-demnity, as such, but the Germans may so consider some of the items of reparation. repa-ration. In any event, their refusal to sign, or their failure to carry out the terms of the pact, has been or will be provided for in the plans of the economic eco-nomic commission of the allies. Possibly Pos-sibly the military will have something to say and do, also. M. Clemenceau Informed the Germans Ger-mans that they would be allowed fifteen fif-teen days in which to make inquiries or "observations," in writing to which the allied council will make reply, after af-ter which the council will determine the time within which the Germans must give a final answer. As soon as the ceremony in the Versailles pajace was over Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau dispatched a copy of the treaty by aerial courier to Berlin for the consid eralion of the German cabinet and assembly. as-sembly. The Germans maintained an arrogant ar-rogant air during the proceedings Wednesday, and it was noted that though M. Clemenceau stood while addressing ad-dressing them. Von RrockdorlT-Rantzau remained seated when he replied. Thjs, nnd the lone of some of his utterances made the allied representatives ratK'-r The correspondent of a Berlin paper pa-per predicted that the German ' delegates dele-gates in each case where It was considered con-sidered necessary would present a carefully formulated counterproposl-tion counterproposl-tion stating the maxinuim they were willing to concede. Many of these, he said, were already drawn up, and the Germans would "show the utmost consideration con-sideration for the enemy's standpoint." He asserted It would be particularly difficult for Germany to yield to the demand for the delivering up of the Germans held guilty of being the instigators in-stigators of the war. This clause, which calls for the trial of the former kaiser, was incorporated in the treaty at the last moment. Ofh-er Ofh-er matters which were put in last week included the disposition of the German Ger-man colonies, as follows: Togoland and Kamerun France and Great Britain shall make a joint recommendation recom-mendation to the league of nations as to their future. German East Africa The mandate shall be held by Great Britain. German Southwest Africa The mandate man-date shall be held by the Union of South Africa. The German Samoan islands The mandate shall be held by New Zealand. The other German Pacific possessions posses-sions south of the equator, excluding the German Samoan islands and Nauru The mandate shall be-beld by Australia. Aus-tralia. Nauru (Pleasant island) The mandate man-date shall be given to the British empire. em-pire. The German Pacific islands north of the equator The mandate shall be held by Japan. Marshal Foch persisted to the last in bis demand that France should be guaranteed in some way against future armed attack by Germany. It was reported re-ported that President Wilson and Premier Pre-mier Lloyd George gave him measurable measur-able satisfaction by promising to ask congress and parliament, respectively, to authorize an open agreement that the United States and Great Britain would go instantly to the aid of France if she were attacked. However, if the terms of the treaty as written are carried car-ried out, Germany will have very little left with which to carry on military enterprises. She couldn't get far with an army of 100,000 men, a puny navy, no submarines, and no armed planes, and with the fortifications of Helgoland Helgo-land and the Rhine valley demolished. Belgium having beerr given satisfaction satisfac-tion as to the parts of the treaty which didn't suit her at first, the only one tf the allied anfl associated nations that still held out against the pact was China. The cabinet at Peking, it was said, had instructed the Chinese delegates dele-gates not to sign any treaty that transferred trans-ferred to Japan the former German rights in Shantung. Japan's victory in the allied council has greatly stirred China and there is danger, of anti-foreign outbreaks there. Press comment on the treaty, which indicates or forms public opinion, is varied. The German papers, of course, denounce many of the terms as brutal and impossible of acceptance. Those of France praise the- pact rather faintly. faint-ly. In England some journals commend the treaty highly and others condemn it. The American press generally looks on the peace terms as satisfactory. No sooner had the. German treaty been handed to the Hun delegates than the council of four began consideration of the program for the presentation of peace terms to the representatives of Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria. These treaties, which already were partly drawn up, more immediately concern Italy, and the return of the Italian delegates, del-egates, who were in time for the ceremony cere-mony fvu Wednesday, made it possible to go ahead speedily. Premier Orlando Orlan-do 'and his associates went back to Paris at the request of the other members mem-bers of the conference and after a pirn was formulated for the disposition of .Fi'ume. It was proposed that the city should be under inlernational control until 1923 and should then be given to Italy. In the meantime Jugo-Slavfa shall construct for itself a port a little to the south of Fiume, with railroad connection with Agram and other cities. It was understood that Italy was prepared to sacrifice some of ,lier claims on the Dalmatian coast. It wa ; believed in Paris that '.'resident Wilson would consent to some such comru-.- . Slavs' contention lay in their need of a port on the Adriatic. Latest reports of the operations of the bolshevikl were that they were beginning be-ginning an attack in great strength against Vilna, capital of Lithuania, which had been capt tired by the Poles. The cily was under heavy artillery fire. The allies in northern Russia had several sev-eral successes against the reds and believed the crista along the Dvina river had passed. The American railway rail-way detachment recently sent there had its first engagement with the bolshevik! bol-shevik! and helped in the capture of a town, losing one officer. Dispatches concerning Hungary have been conflicting. From Vienna came the word that the communist government govern-ment of I'ela Kun had surrendered unconditionally, un-conditionally, but this was not wholly confirmed. Anyhow, the communists were being hard pressed by the Czech, Roumanian and Serbian troops, which were surrounding Budapest. Copenhagen Copen-hagen advices were that they had refused re-fused armistice terms offered by the Roumanians and decided to fight to a finish. The collapse of the soviet government govern-ment of Bavaria apparently was complete, com-plete, and was followed by the wholesale whole-sale slaughter of Spartacans and suspects, sus-pects, the excesses of the victors in Munich being about as bad as had been those of the reds while they were in control. The German gcvernment troops were aided by some 8,000 Aus-trians Aus-trians in regaining the city. President Wilson last week issued his call for an extra session of congress, con-gress, summoning the law-makers to meet on May 19 an earlier date than had been expected. He cannot be iu Washington for the opening of the session, ses-sion, owing to the work still to be done in Paris. The Republicans, who will control both houses, are busy preparing prepar-ing their program. The house must hurry through a lot of appropriation bills and in t lie senate will be staged the great debate over the peace treaty, and -especially the covenant of the league of nations. It is predicted that tl!e senate will give the entire treaty its approval, though many of the members mem-bers will argue long .and earnestly against the league covenant as it stands. The supporters of the league undoubtedly will have the immense assistance as-sistance of addresses by the president, who will return in time to take the field in championship of the great international in-ternational union with whose formation forma-tion he has had so much to do. Secretary Baker. says the millionth American soldier leaves France for home this week, and it is certain that all of them will be returned before long, barring unforeseen complications. However, it Is apparent that we will continue to be represented in the allied al-lied expedition in Siberia, for the war department is recruiting 8,000 volunteers volun-teers for that service to relieve those now there, and the first 1,000 already have started. The American Legion, In process of organization by veterans of the great war, opened a caucus in St. Louis with a thousand delegates present and Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt in the chair. The first sessions developed a decided dissension between the National Guard and the regular army. The feelings of the former were voiced by Col. Bennet Clark, son of Champ Clark, in the National Na-tional Guard convention, when he declared de-clared that the regular army "must be smashed." However, he is fighting against the effort to have regular army men excluded from the Legion. Some of the Southern delegates were working work-ing hard against the admission of negroes to membership. Messrs. Walsh, Dunne and Ryan, whom the Americans of Irish blood sent across to work for a "free Ireland," Ire-land," have succeeded in arousing the hot resentment of the British against what many of them say is the unwarranted unwar-ranted interference of the United States in a mailer that does not concern con-cern it. The delegation, visiting in Ireland, Ire-land, was feted and escorted by Sinn Fein leaders mid at the same time, ac-! ac-! cording to hostile journals, was openly i boasting that it has received strong cn- couragcuicnt from rrcsident Wilson |