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Show SIGN OR REJECT, WILL BE ANSWER TO HUN DELEGATES PARTS. Sunday, May 11. CBy ThAs-soieated ThAs-soieated Press.) The first exchange between be-tween Count von Brockdorff-Pmtzau and tile allies was considered a preliminary skirmish to the main battle and us dis- I closing the allied position as. in effect; "Accept the trealy as it stands, or reject It, one or the other, as there is no middle mid-dle ground." Tills was the prevailing view today In conference circles generally after the four notes had been analyzed. The head of the German delega tion also was thought to acopt this construction, as reports were that he was giving his chief attention to the formula tion of a complete trea ty which he would present as a counter project proj-ect in about five days, instend of seek- I ing to amend or modify the terms of the alllerj trea ty. (Since the foregoing was written, however, how-ever, the two pdditlona notes by Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau were dispatched.) dis-patched.) This counter-treaty would he treated the same as the German plans for a league of nations, neither of which will be considered, the only question being the acceptance of or rejection of the allied treaty. The German project for a league of na-I na-I tions, which the reply to Count von ! Virnckrinrrf-T'a nt 7.n n f:i id hn rl Iippti r- f'-rvctl to a committee, had not reached the committee on the league uf na lions today, but members of the committee said it was generally known to have been drawn by Prof. Schue-king of the Ger-mnn Ger-mnn delegation and that It was in the form of a general thesis on the merits of a work pa rlia mtnt which would peek to , bring a bout the proportionate limitation ; of armaments of all nations alike, on sea as well as on land, and an equality of economic conditions bringing about a : sjrt of economic brotherhood. ! "Tho project," a member of the committee com-mittee said, "has only academic interest, as the committee will not examine or consider It, for it has no purpose to let the tier mans confuse the allied project, wnich has unanimous support." ! |