Show ALLIED MAKE EBERT L It I CRY OUT I Consequences to Rest on Entente Is His Latest t 1 t. t Threat t. t By Associated Press i COPENhAGEN COPEr April 16 Pr PresIdent President of or German Germany has addressed the II f fOllowing Easter message Sc to tho the na national na- na assembly I The national assembly as ns the competent representative of ot the I G German people expressed unanimously on April 10 the expectation expectation tion Von that the government ti would agree rc only to a peace based on in understanding and conciliation and would reject I would sacrifice tho the present sent and of or the tho German people and the world I this pronouncement nt as s n a declaration of ot the Inflexible will of the German lerman people popl that thal the coming pt peace co s I halI be bo a p peace ace of ot lasting understanding and anti conciliation amon among the nations I and nd that It must mut thus give Germany German Ger Ger- man many the possibility of or permanently permanently perma perma- observing the tho principle of understanding and conciliation TASK IS DIFFICULT IThe f I Tho The national assembly and the government are arc working with de demotion do- do motion and energy rg to fulfill the great task of or s giving peace bread work and a new constitution to toa toa a great Ireat nation n. n The task is difficult dif di- dl- dl cult to fulfill as long IonS a. a as aI those who who have ilave It In their power r to toI I give h-e h the world peace allow them- them selves to be dominated b by teel- teel feel lags Ings of oC hatred an and revenge re and by means of the hunger blockade blockade block block- i ade Rde and by threatening our anni ann- are Tiro driving the thc German people to despair Five Fie months month ago 80 we t accepted tl our ent enemies terms We re agreed with them on the basis for a conclusion con- con elusion ot of pt peace ue We c have hae fulfilled ful- ful filled the hard armistice armistice- conditIons condl- condl lions disbanded our arm army tand surrendered enem enemy prisoners but hut peace Is still withheld from us Though defenseless and econom econom- exhausted WA wn still are re cut cutoff oft off by tho the blockade e and our prisoners pris pris- JOers are still detained which Is equivalent to a 8 continuation of ot the war It is a den burden n such as asno asno no no nation has as yet et been comp compelled com corn p polled to endure We Ve have ha done donee everything e to obtain peace from our enemies and amid to lIb liberate rate our nation from this Intolerable tor tor- tur ture The responsibility for tor all the consequences which must follow fol Cot 10 low jo the theo continuance of the pt pros pres present sent s- s ent cot situation for COI us and the world I must fall tall on their shoulders DENOUNCES ENOUNCES DISTURBANCES I President Ebert concluded b by de denouncing de- de the internal disturbers of oC the countr country whose hose action ho he says I threatens to completely destro destroy our life lito He continued The yearning of or the masses for human dignity is no excuse for Cor a handful of ot dl disorderly agitators who systematically endeavor to disturb the construction of oC the j German republic The new German Ger- Ger many man cannot be created b by a jump in the tile dark which would certainly be a Jump Into the I abyss A Bolshevik dictatorship I of or the proletariat minority would certainly ruin Industrial Germany German Ger Ger- man many Irs Ir Ira a few months A speedy speed external II peace ace based on understanding under under- standing and a league of oC nations Is a vital ital question for tor us UH but no Ic less does our salvatIon atlon rest on 00 the time necessity for Cor p peace aco and work at hom home I therefore In this grave hour exhort chort all of our people to cease tearing one another to pieces Win a victory over er yourselves cs Open your Our eyes ces and see gee the abyss |