Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-17 | Page 2 | Hint that German Delegates may not Sign Peace Treaty

HINT THAT GERMAN DELEGATES MAY NOT SIGN PEACE TREATY By H. J. GRE EN WA LL. (Exclusive Cable to Universal Service and the London Daily Express.) BERLIN, March 16. "The signing by us of the food (rms at Brussels does not necessarily mean that the peace terms will be 'Signed," said Count Johan N. Heinrlch von Bernstorff, former German Ger-man ambassador to the United States, to me today. "It is too early," he continued, -"to know whether the signing of the food terms will .have any influence on the desire de-sire in high quarters to refuse to sign the peace terms and adopt a passive attitude at-titude of resistance to the allies." Judging from obviously inspired ar-r tides in this morning's newspapers, the German delegates are not likely to sign. I understand that the delegates will have powers to refuse to sign the peace treaty and will not have to refer, to the government, gov-ernment, but possibly they will have to consult with the cabinet, which, in turn, will consult with the party leaders in the national assembly. President Ebert has said that he foresees fore-sees a possibility of the German delegates dele-gates not signing the peace terms, but that he personally does not think, the terms wilt be so hard as to prevent the German signature. Nevertheless, lie said If the peace is not signed by Germany "it will lead to Bolshevism in Germany, and a movement among German intellectuals in-tellectuals to join the Russian Bolshevists." Bolshe-vists." v President Ebert denied knowledge of the wholesale executions of arrested Spartacists and added he had given orders or-ders that they be stopped. The conservative press has launched a campaign against signing an "intolerable peace." A violent meeting of the soldiers' and workmen's council was broken up by soldiers when spea kers demanded - the death of Minister of Defense Noske.