Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-23 | Page 6 | Hun Complaints

in order to insure acceptance by t!:c Cleraiaiu. ( t.mesious of v.v.y character charac-ter roatri:iHy modifying the exactions imposed on Germany would promptlv be interpreted by the Huns as an indication indi-cation of weakness. And that would be unfortunate for everybody but the Germans. IIUN COMPLAINTS. i The allied plenipotentiaries at Paris have replied to German objections to the economic provisions of the peace treaty in an answer filled with irony. To tho complaint that the allies are , taking German mines and nitrate beds j the allies suggest that there is nothing noth-ing in the treaty which will prevent Germany from buying these commodities commod-ities of other nations. German complaint com-plaint that her merchant shipping has been confiscated is responded to by the statement that the retention of Hun vessels will not nearly compensate the allies for the ships wantonly destroyed ly German submarines. The plea that large numbers of Ger man seamen have been thrown out of work through the seizure of these ships brings the response that more allied citizens have been prevented from following fol-lowing the sea on account of the ravages rav-ages of German undersea pirates. One of the finest pieces of irony is the answer an-swer of tho allies to the German complaint com-plaint that through the deprivation of her agricultural lands she is unable to feed her population. The allies tell the Germans that agricultural products are easily obtained from other coun-trics, coun-trics, and, besides, the reduction of population through the loss of territory terri-tory will leave fewer mouths ,to feed. Tho allies could have added that German wantonness made it necessary for the outside world to feed the victims vic-tims of Hun militarism and "that even now America is largely engaged in feeding one of Germany's confederates in the design to impose Teuton kultur on an unwilling world. Just what the Germans hope to gain by interposing objections and offering counter-proposals is not clear, since it is obvious that tho Ebert government ' has no alternative in the matter. It id