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Show much for the request of the Germans in favor of German criminals. The Teuton envoys are also advised that it is useless to undertake further discussion discus-sion of the prisoners question until peace arrives. The Germans have been attempting to have oral discussions begun be-gun and have requested the immediate institution of a commission to thresh out the entire matter of prisoners and repatriation. To this request Clemen-ceau Clemen-ceau replies that such a commission will bo set up after the conclusion of peace. Thus the French premier forces the hands of the German delegation by inferring that if Germany is so anxious to get her prisoners home the way is opened for such repatriation. Sho has only to sign the peace treaty. Finally, Premier Clenienceau, firmly refusing to consider Count von Brock-dorff-Rantzau 's pleas concerning the economic results of the peace terms, reminds re-minds the Germans that an' hardships which the treaty may entail "will arise, not from the conditions of peace, but from the acts of those who provoked pro-voked this war. Those who were responsible re-sponsible for that war," he adds, "cannot "can-not hope to escape the just consequences." conse-quences." The German pleadings will, in all probability, continue down to the moment mo-ment when the envoys must do ono of two things sign or reject the peace terms. If it is rejection, the German choice will not find the allies without measures to secure by forco what they proposed to obtain by negotiation. Already Al-ready military measures are being taken. Forces, including Americans, are ready to still further demonstrate to the Germans that peace cannot be dictated by a defeated people. The German government can sink or swim, as it pleases. SLIGHT CONCESSIONS. It is said that slight concessions have been made to the Germans by the Versailles Ver-sailles peace conference, but the alterations altera-tions decided upon have not been made public. It is known, however, that slight modifications have been made in the terms of the Saar valley award and that the terms regarding reparations have also been modified. Premier Clemenceau, speaking for the allies, is making prompt replies to the I scries of notes addressed to the council of four by the German peaco envoys. Clemenceau answers with a refreshing disregard for finesse. His latest answer an-swer is to the effect that German plotters plot-ters and criminals who have been reached during the war by tho strong arm of tho law of any of the allies or associated powers and who are now in j prison or- internment camps cannot be i replaced and repatriated either now or (when peace is signed, but must serve ! out their sentences, regardless of their German citizenship. The French premier makes it clear that the laws violated by Germans now imprisoned or interned for crimes or penal offenses ' are the laws of the countries that hold them and that there can be no question of those laws being usponiled simply because pesu-c is |