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Show UP TO GERMANS. The allied council having completed the draft of the reply to the German counter-proposals after a full agreement on all essentials, the Teuton plenipotentiaries plenipoten-tiaries soon will face the choice of signing sign-ing the peace terms or taking the consequences con-sequences of refusal. According to statements made in "responsible quarters'' quar-ters'' there is accord in principle on all disputed points, even on the question ques-tion of a plebiscite in upper Silesia and the admission of Germany into the league of nations. The reply will, it is reported, be handed to the German envoys en-voys today. Five days will be permitted permit-ted the Huna for consideration, to be supplemented by another three-day period, specified for denouncing the armistice. lr.US lite lony-Uia ii-uuu u.uuw-"..- of the German peace terms, at one time threatening serious differences even among the allied representatives, end with every assurance that the very near future will find Germany either obedient or defiant with at least an end to uncertainty. The attitude of the German plenipotentiaries on the signing of the treaty is not clear, because be-cause the delegates as yet are unaware of the exact nature of the instrument they are called upon to ratify. That there is a formidable opposition in Germany Ger-many is certain, and this opposition ia reflected in official statements in Berlin. Ber-lin. The French view is that neither the present delegation nor the present German government wiil acquiesce in the treaty demands, but they look for immediate im-mediate installation of a radical socialist social-ist administration which will accept tha treaty. Color ia given that view by the declaration in the Weimar assembly by a leading socialist member that the treaty terms were dictated by necessity and that the boundaries fixed by the treaty are German and nothing leas. This "socialist declared it the duty of the government to bring peace by accepting ac-cepting the allied terms. If he reflects re-flects the opinion of the majority socialists, so-cialists, and this party is believed to hold the balance of power in Germanic affairs, then the Trench view may be accepted as reasonable. The Weimar assembly of majority socialists is expected to exercise pressure pres-sure on the Ebort-Scheidemann government govern-ment to accept the best terms possible. Monarchist and the so-called "conservative'' "con-servative'' forces really the old iunker element have been developing increasing strength of late, and it is from this quarter that the chief antagonism an-tagonism to the treaty has come. So that it remains a decision for the Ger man elements to make. That decision cannot long be deferred. If the Germans Ger-mans are ready to oppose themselves to the allied powers they have only to reject re-ject the treaty and denounce the armistice. armis-tice. It is inconceivable that they will elect to do this, but it was regnrded as inconceivable that Germany should do a great many things which sho went about doing with genuine German thor-oughnes. thor-oughnes. At any rate the world will soon know whether tho armistice ended German deviltry or merely interrupted I it for a season. |