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Show Failure of Proposal for Pooling of War Debts Forcing the Hands of the Individual Nations. Germany's Demand for Fixing of Definite Sum for Payment Is Rejected by Delegates. PAFJS, June 5. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Such progress was made by the council of four today that by working through Sunday it is hoped the reply to the German Ger-man counterproposals may be ready for delivery Monday. The council has decided to refuse Germany's request that a fixed sum for reparation be indicated in the treaty. PARIS, Juno 5. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Count von Brock-dorff-Rantzau, head of tho German peace delegation, has sent a formal letter of protest to the peace conference con-ference complaining that the armies of occupation in Germany are arbitrarily protecting and favoring fav-oring the individuals who are attempting at-tempting to establish a Rhenish republic. The protest adds that the armies also are prevently loyal Germans from manifesting counter-feeling. counter-feeling. PARIS, June 5. The necessity for the various nations, and especially France, to make definite statements to banking interests concerning: the funds likely to be received in reparation rayments, in order to arrange for loans, is apparently affecting the council of four's consideration consider-ation of amendments to the German peace treaty, and it is expected to result re-sult in the fixing cf a definite reparation sum. The failure of any plan for an international inter-national pooling ff war debts, It is pointed point-ed out here, is forcing the individual nations na-tions to prepare to meet the bankers on a strictly business basis. The apparent influence which fundamental funda-mental financial rules are having upon the movement for changes in the reparation repara-tion section of the treaty is reinforced by the opinion of the financiers of virtually vir-tually all the allied countries that this I section is unsatisfactory. I FRENCH LIKELY TO j ASSENT TO PLAN. In the plans being discussed to im- prove it by naming a definite reparation repara-tion sum, 100,000,000,000 gold marks, or 525,000,000.000. is the sum quite generally discussed as likely to be adopted, having been agreed upon by the entente's financial finan-cial experts before the treaty was drawn, as the amount Germany j'robably could pay. While Premier CIcmenceau and he other French leaders insist that there j must be no changes in principle in tho ! trea ty, the proposed alteration with re- gard to reparation is believed to be re-, re-, garded by them as a change in detail to ; which they are willing to agree so that ' the treaty may be made more workable ! and the raising of the great loans nec-i nec-i essary to the res:oration of the war-worn , countries bo facilitatr-d. ' Jt is doubtful if ihe council of four ! will be able to nend a reply to the : German countr-prov sa's to the peaco j treaty's terms before the end t neL : week, according to the Paris office ol j neuter's Limited. N0 SPECIFIC SUM IS j MENTIONED FOR AUSTRIA. ' The :inr-.nci3l clause of the Austrian ! peaet? Ui-f.is. hp completed, it is under-i under-i s.tood, lixes no specific sum as repara- ti"n payment. Tho TisUon U lei'-' to a ' eomnvssi-in, which will cxamin-? tho rc- sources of A .ltria and determine tiic I a mount nd rnf -livid "f pa ynvjut. j Small powe- s have iron a victory in I their oppoMi i"n to the limitation of I (Continued cn Page 3, Column 5.) REPARATIONS PLANS AGAIN CONSIDERED (Continued from Pag One.) armatnent'j of the new states created from tho former Austro-Hungarian empire em-pire as incorporated in the Austrian peace treaty. The council of four has decided to eliminate the provisions lor sueh limitation. The council today gave further consideration consid-eration to the German counter-propdals and to the question of the rights of minorities mi-norities in the small nations. In the revision of the treaty of 1339, dealing with the status ot Belgium, including in-cluding her boundaries as affecting Holland, Hol-land, the councd of foreign ministers of the peace conference has adopted the principle that Holland is willing to grant Belgium certain rights the Belgians ure demanding. These rights have to do with waterways. Paderewski Protests Changes. PARIS', June 6- Ignace Jan Paderewski the Polish premier, has protested to tha peace conference leaders against any change in the terms of the settlement of the Silesian question. Reports from Paris have been that the peace conference heads were considering alterations in the peace terms presented Germany so as to provide for a plebiscite In Silesia over the question of uniting with Poland, and likewise for the guaranty guar-anty to Germany of coal supplies from the Sllesian mines. f Superior Council Meets. STRASSBURG, Tuesday, June S. (French Wireless Service.) The superior! council of Alsace and Lorraine held its i first meeting under the new French re- gime on Monday In the building formerly occupied by the German ministry of the interior of Alsace and Dorraine. Alexandre , Millerand, governor general. In a speech in which he paid tribute to the peope of Alsace and Lorraine, said no abrupt change in the laws of the two provinces was contemplated. Mangin Issues Warning. BERLIN, Wednesday, June. 4. (By the Associated Press). A proclamation by General Mangin, commander of the j French army of occupation at Mayence, ! forbidding strikes against the Rhenish republic re-public and threatening leaders of any such movements with expulsion, is published pub-lished in the Frankfort Gazette. Hun Government Accused. BERLIN. Wednesday, June 4. (By the Associated Press.) Another indication of tlie sentiment in eastern Germany regard- j ing the annexation of portions of East ' Prussia to Poland is shown tn a bitter protest signed by all the leaders of the leading political parties In the Oletzko district charging the government with neglecting the interests of Last Prussia . and bartering the province with the entente en-tente for more favorable peace terms. President May Yisit Brussels. BRUSSELS. Wednesday, June 4. Pres- ident Wilson will arrive here on June 10 for a two days' visit, according to official announcement today. 1 PARIS. June 5. The Brussels advices' announcing dates for President Wilson's entertainment there were characterized at 1 the Paris "White House" today as' "guesswork. The date for the visit has i not been fixed, it was said, but it prob-I ably will occur within the coming week. 1 Foch Sends Sharp Reply. MANNHEIM. Wednesday, June 4. (By ! Associated Press.) When the project of! the Rhenish republic was first broached. Marshal Foch, commanuer-ln-chlef of the allied armies, was approached through occupation officers and asked whether the Rhlneland era could work for a republic without the risk of being- disciplined by Germany, according- to the Neue Baden I.andes Zeitun?. The newspaper states that Marshal Foch and Premier Clemen-ceau Clemen-ceau of France conferred on the subject and sent a reply to the Rhinelanders that "the German government would never again have anything to do with the left bank of the Rhine and hence the. propagandists propa-gandists could not be punished." Andrassy Urges Intervention. VIENNA, Tuesday, June 3. (By the Associated Press.) Allied intervention in Hungary was urged by Count Julius An-drassy, An-drassy, former Austro-IIungarian foreign minister, in a statement today. The count. In company with other exiled Hungarians Hun-garians is attempting to put down the Hungarian communist government. "The only way left for us is allied help," the count said, "It Is useless to treat the communists." Soviet Leader Arrested. BERLIN, Wednesday, June 4. (Bv the Associated Press.) A special dispatch from Munich announces that Ernest Toller, Tol-ler, student leader in the recent communist commun-ist insurrection there, has been arrested. Ernest Toller was a director of the soviet so-viet government in Bavaria and when Munich was taken by Bavarian government govern-ment troops early in Slay, it was reported that he was among the persons killed during dur-ing the fighting in the city. This report was never confirmed. Czecho-Slovaks Satisfied. PARTS, June 5. (French Wireless Service.) Serv-ice.) The Czeeno-Slovaks are satisfied with the principal territorial points of the Austrian peace treaty, M. Benes, the Czecho-.Slovak foreign minister, has Informed In-formed the Temps. The territorial elnus-es. elnus-es. he said, showed that the council of four had decided in favor of the Czechoslovak Czecho-slovak claims to the historic frontiers of Bohemia and Moravia, adding: "We are particularly pleased with the clauses by which national life Js secured for the Czecho-Slovak minorities, especially In Vienna," Austria to Have Mourning Day. COPENHAGEN. June 5. (By the Associated As-sociated Press. ) Austria will mourn tomorrow. to-morrow. Black flags will be shown throughout the country, according to dispatch dis-patch e. reaching here, as an expression of the feeling of the population over the peace terms. |