Show Fourteen Points i L THE HE reply of the allied and associated powers to the note of JL the German peace delegation regarding the economic effect i of the peace treaty contains at least fourteen points some o of 3 them barbed in every sentence As Germany indicated on November l 1 11 1 t last that the time timet had lead come to quit fighting in a war already lost so the allies in int t their reply to the note of the German peace delegation indicate itis it itI I 4 is the logical time for the vanquished nation to cease talking and take a dose of medicine much less bitter than the one the Huns had prepared for the rest of mankind That the allied powers had determined no material change should be made in the peace treaty as completed is is indicated by the I prompt and emphatic I tic mann manner r in which the protests ag against the various provisions were met The reply to the one question of shipping indicates the tenor of 1 1 f the entire document It It seems to have ha entirely escaped the notice of her Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's spokesmen that the sacrifice of her larger shipping is the inevitable penalty imposed upon her for the ruthless campaign which in defiance of all laws and precedent she waged during the thelast thelast thelast last two 1 years of the war war upon the mercantile shipping of the world declares the reply which dismisses the subject of shipping with the statement that the universal shortage of merchant shipPing shipping shipping ship ship- ping is the result not of the terms of peace but the action of Germany and no surprise can reasonably he ie e felt if she is called upon to bear a share share and and it is a very moderate share share share-of of a loss a tf c for which her owr own criminal deeds have been responsible Judging from this pointed reply the allies in addition to ift fl having no intention of changing the wording of the peace treaty do not propose to permit the world and especially Germany to JL forget who instigated the great war and who is responsible for its calamitous results |