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Show Iu!i:im thec are a!l counts in t!;fI laman imlietmcmt a;;:ii:i-t the Ucrmun government. Count von r.roek'lorff -R ; 1 1 1 1 : n ; t . n'o-,i-man fur the German.'-, in a curious mixture mix-ture of bitterness, ueiiam-o. ami aviir-am-es of Germany's repentance ami :un-ili:itory :un-ili:itory deMre s, plural re -mm unity for the war where, of course, it belongs, be-longs, on the shouhlers of the military masters of the overthrown empire. Tiie German envoy stressed the hope of the Teuton people for a "just peace." That justice will not be denied them, nor will it fail the victims of Germany 's w:i r madness. I f, for the G cr maris, justice assumes the form of retribution, it must he rernembere'l that fuur years of world travail were due to German fright fulness. Having appealed to the swonl, Germany cow is all bnt hopelessly hopeless-ly crushed" by the very weight of the weapon of her own choosing. ! PRICE HUNS MUST PAY. : On tiie fourth anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania a German' crime against civilization which marked the moral entry of the United States on the sido of the allies the German plenipotentiaries pleni-potentiaries at Versailles were made acquainted ac-quainted with the price the Teuton people peo-ple must pay for the stupendous folly of their war lords. With painstaking exactness, Premier Clemenceau emphasized empha-sized the truth of the adage that chick-, eus will como home to roost. All of the specters of tho military triumphs which marked the early stages of the war como back to taunt tho Germans. "At this second Versailles conference," Clemenceau reminded tho enemy plenipotentiaries, pleni-potentiaries, the vanquished were to hear the terms of. peace and accept them, however drastic they might prove to be. Tho French premier with fine irony spoke of the ''second A'ersailles conference" in recollection of the ruin which Bismarck sought to impose on Prance in 1871. ' .And the terms decidody arc severe enough to satisfy the most implacable of Germany's foes. They render the once puissant empire to impotence and reduce it to a second-rate power. Excluding Ex-cluding the major damage of the war for which reparation must be made, Germany will have to pay for all other damage done to civilians and their property. prop-erty. Seven categories, listed as follows, fol-lows, provide for this: Damages by personal injury to civilians civil-ians caused by acts of war, directly or indirectly. Damage caused to civilians bv acts of cruelty ordered by the enemy soldiery and civilians in occupied territory. Damages caused by the maltreatment of prisoners. Damaees to the allied peoples represented repre-sented by pensions and separation allowances, al-lowances, capitalized at the signature of the treaty. Damages to property other than military mili-tary or naval stores. Damages to civilians by being forced to labor Damaces in the form of levies or fines imposed by the enemy. Tiie bombing of an unfortified citv, the severity practiced by German commanders com-manders in occupied cities and towns of--P ranee ami Belgium, the horrors of the German prison camps, the "skive" labor forcibly taken from France and |