| Show PEACE flEACE ACT P-ACT GOES OES BACK UNSIGNED NE YS E I Flat Refusal to A Accept Terms of Allies Voiced r I by hy Hun President Hint of Overture to Russians Paris May 19 By 19 By the Associated Associated Associated Asso Asso- Press Press Marshal Foch to- to before the council of four his plan for military operations that are to be he put effect incase in incase incase case the German plenipotentiaries decline to sign sigh the peace treaty After the conference between Marshal arshal Foch and the council of four President Wilson had a talk with General Pershing It became known later thai tha General Pershing's visit to London may mayI maybe maybe be postponed in order to await I developments I By Universal 1 BJ ERLIN l JN May 19 The rhe The E crt 10 eminent will stand or or fall b by th tha tIit r refusal to sign sin the thc treaty of or peace in its present form The rhe president nt himself told tod a huge hurrahing crowd yesterday that his it it I government would never cr never sign He Hc thus has committed himself and his ministry absolutely and irrevocably o irre irrevocably knowing that that- an eventual c change of mind mint would result in his immediate overthrow o Tho The thing that mystifies some observers observers ob oh servers here is the question why h Ebert I withheld his definite statement so I long 1 One Is that lie he to give gl the national fueling feeling a to cr and assert asseri Itself An Another ther reason given gi by sources CS d close te ti tl t him is that thal at the p e at at I Spa pa Count von Brockdorff Rantzau was able to toll Berlin emissaries s some things which he he- could not trust to th the wireless without giving 1 awa away his han hand the most important being that lie he did not In an any circumstances expect an e essential modi modification rica lion o of the thc terms at nl the allies allies' hands C Counter Count r l ropo nl Hope Thus tile hope that the German counter proposals would find a a. willIng will will- III lug Ing and benevolent hearing at Paris laris ParisIs Is given Iven as th the ca for the failure o of Ebert to burn his bridges behind him until he learned through hl his delegates del el- el agates sent to Spa and probably from Lan arid and Giesbert direct that there was no chance to have have- the tho treaty altered In Germanys Germany's s favor Pun Dirt With Hh no lid 1 I ii Meanwhile the flirting of ot Germanys Germany Bol- Bol and public with the Russian Is becoming more open faced Nor or ar are tho the chiefs at Moscow Mo cow overlooking overlooking over over- looking an any chance to encourage time the advances ances from Berlin I Is reported as openly mentioning the possibility of or an nit alliance with th the tho n reds the Bolshevist Bolshevist vist ba foreign minister was quick to U sn send a wireless m message a addressed Sed t to i 1 tho maim German proletariat pointing out oui their great gnat opportunity to launch the world revolution Count Brockdorff rf IB is represented in entirely unofficial but apparently well grounded ro ed reports a as b being oppose opposed toa to tc toi a i Bol Bolshevist alliance and anti as favoring In preference to that even cven the signIng sign sign- Ing lag of ot the peace treaty treat as It stands stand The German radicals are unanimous for lor immediate signature of be bo- cause they thoy that once the gates sates of western l Europe are open tIme the hal Bol Bolshevist tide will win floo flood through into France and arid Britain Pope P Sends Plea To 10 Col House Rome nom May 1 10 U By l I.-l By the lie Associated teel Press Cardinal Cardinal Gasparri th the papal secretary of or state slate has J written In the th name nam 0 of the pope pop an art official note to Cot Col 1 15 g. M 1 House of ot tho the American lean peace delegation transmitting th the the- theor arguments ar or- sent to the tho pont pontiff It b by the German bishops to demonstrate the absolute Impossibility of oC their country countr coun court tr try fulfilling the he peace conditions Imposed Im- Im Imposed Im posed b by the allies I In his note Cardinal an Gasparri pa ex cx explains x plains that the pope is animated only by humanitarian feelings B The rime cardinal l adds that the pope ha had done dono this the more snore willingly since Ince he was also urged urs-ed to 10 undertake un thIs Continued on page pao 2 PEACE PACT GOES GOE BACK I UNSIGNED EBERT SAYS i Continued from Page Pac 1 belonging to to Initiative b by a country countr entente Colonel House to the entente Ho Ito bogs begs submit tho the situation to President Wilson Wilson Wil VII I Ison son hoping that tho the President will u irs his hiM powerful Influence with the othet othel delegates of or tho the various powers with witha a view to assuring a lasting peace I Enslavement Says J I Ehert Ebert of Treaty Berlin BrUn Sunday Sundar May rIa IS cn Dy the tho f Tress President I In hero to today today today to- to addressing a demonstration day said sald that ar would never r norI sign I n tho peace term term Tho The demonstration was Void held In th Ii atten and antl was ac attended b h L b a great re-at re crowd President Ebert Dbert de described do- do scribed the peace pence terms as the of or tho the enemy's revengeful rc hysteria hys hys- teria tonia and added Foreign countries will not permit tho the proscription of oC Germany The They will ral raise c their voices s with us that thaI I peace of enslavement em nl whiCh wo ve will willI never ne sign shall shaH nit nt cOnic como to pass puss I Flume to Become In Internationalized terna Paris May Il 19 It It Is asserted by hy bythe bythe hythe the newspapers that tho lie council of oC four will decide to Internationalize Internationalize- o othe the city of or Flume because no other arrangements could bo ho accepted byboth b by byboth both Italy Haly and JUgo- JUgo Jugo It I Austrian Delegates Present Credentials St. St German German-en I. c May Ia 19 r l.-r Bv Dv the Associated Press The Tho Tho of oC credentials between s 's of oC tho the allied and associated powers and the Austrian peace delegates tes took place pineo at 3 O o'clock this afu afternoon The session lasted four Cour Jules presided at the meetIng use meet 11 Ing and presented the credentials of ot th allies ullies and associated powers II H- H repeated d virtually the tho same samo words he used at the tho ceremony with tire the Jer- Jer Jerman er- er man mart delegates Chandler Chandler- nenner for Cor or the Austrians Austrian replied briefly en ending ln tho the ceremony Henry White represented the Stats Th Tb ceremony was wag staged In the tIre pavilion pa pa- the birth lIlon which tradition calls room mont of ot Louis XIV NW rho Tho allied plenipotentiaries pleni saluted on arriving were h by sentries who were withdrawn boJ before be- be i J fore rore the came I M. M r. r Cambon speaking in French e expressed ex expressed pressed hope that the conference and successful would have havo a happy happ result Chancellor r Henner head hend o of tho the Austrian Aus Aus- I Aus-I trian delegation replied in a few words of oC French and then expressing I his Inability to continuo continue in that language lan Inn guage concluded Iris his remarks In Gernan Ger Ocr man nan v The credentials of oC the tho the Austrian Austrian delegates del were sign signed ell b by tho the president of oC the national assembly and countersigned countersigned counter counter- signed b by Karl Renner Henner as s chancellor and ond Herr flatter Bauer as ng foreign minister I They bear however tho the seal o of the Austrian republic with a single single- het ea eagle h Paris ParisIa May May Ia 19 The n-The The Impression prevailed prevailed pre pre- wailed In peace conference circles to toda today to- to da day clay that the peace treat treaty with Austria Austria Austria Aus Aus- tria would not be bo presented during the tho ho current wee week I The drafting of oC the tho document Is Is' taking longer cL than was ant anticipated Allies Den Deny Terms Destroy Economic Life Paris May 11 19 Dy D By the Associated Press A Press A b by the and as associated as- as governments go to the German rote note protesting against the economic terms of oC the tho peace hence trent treaty as being calcUlated calculated cal cal- to cause tho the industrial ruin ot Germany German has been delivered lIeU to the German peace plenipotentiaries The Tho reply declares that the allied and and associated governments ro In framing Ire economic terms had no Intention to destroy Germanys Germany's economic life Ufo On the contrary the report points out that In t the lC reconstruction of the will have havo her wo worlds world's ld affairs Germany part vart In the tho progressive development but bul also will ill share with the rest of oC the world in the economic losses and disadvantages il v a a t a gc 1 I Inevitably n cv I La bI y res resulting U I t in g from Crom the tIre war var The reply declares that the German Gernian note noto fails falls to take Into consideration the lire fact that the disarmament o of German Germany Ger Ger- of ur militarism will man many nany and the nd relle o the German Gernian people leople |
