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Show HUN SAYS TERMS ARE UNREASONABLE PEACE PARTY LEADER PRESENTS ANOTHER NOTE TO THE HEADS OF VICTORIOUS POWERS. Declares That Peace Treaty as Framed By the Versailles Conference is "More Than German People Can Bear." Washington. Execution of the peace treaty as framed by the Versailles con-ference con-ference is declared to be "more than the German people can bear" by Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the German peace delegation, in a note to the associated governments outlining the German counter proposals. Count von Brokdorff-Rantzau in his note, the text of which was made public pub-lic Sunday by the state department, further asserts : "The more deeply we penetrate into the spirit of this treaty the more convinced con-vinced we become of the impossibility of carrying it out." Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau de-Oared de-Oared that "Germany knows that she ' must make sacrifices in order to attain at-tain peace. Germany knows that she has, by agreement, undertaken to make these sacrifices, and will go in this matter to the utmost limits of her capacity. ca-pacity. "Germany offers to proceed with her own disarmament in advance of all other peoples, in order to show that she will help to usher in the new era of the peace of justice. She gives up universal compulsory service" and reduces re-duces her army to 100,000 men, except as regards temporary measures. She even renounces the warships winch her enemies are still willing to leave in her hands. She stipulates, however, that she shall be admitted forthwith as a state with equal rights into the league of nations. "Germany takes up her position unreservedly un-reservedly on the ground of the Wilson program. She renounces her sovereign right in Alsace-Lorraine, but wishes a free plebscite to take place there. She gives up the greater of the province of Posen, the district incontestably Polish in population, together with the capital. She is prepared to grant to Poland, under international guarantees, free and secure access to the sea by ceding free ports at Danzig, Konigs-berg Konigs-berg and Memel, by an agreement regulating reg-ulating the navigation of the Vistula and by special railway conventions. Germany is prepared to ensure the supply of coal for the economic needs of France, especially from the Saar region, until such time as the French mines are once more in working order. or-der. The preponderantly Danish districts dis-tricts of Sleswig will be given up to Denmark on the basis of a plebiscite. "Germany is prepared to make payments pay-ments incumbent on her in accordance with the agreed program of peace to a maximum sum of one hundred billions bil-lions of gold marks, twenty billions by May 1, 1926, and the balance eighty billions in annual payments without interest. "Finally, Germany offers to put her entire merchant tonnage in a pool of the world's shipping, to place at the disposal of her enemies a part of her freight space as part payment of reparation, re-paration, and to build for them for a series of years in German yards an amount of tonnage exceeding their demands. The German delegation again makes its demands for a neutral entry into the responsibility for the war and culpable cul-pable acts and conducts. An impartial commission should have the right to investigate on its own responsibility the archives of all the beligerent countries coun-tries and all the persons who took an important part of the war. "Germany is prepared to devote her entire economic strength to the service of reconstruction. She wishes to oo-oporare oo-oporare effectively in the reconstruction reconstruc-tion of the devastated regions of Belgium Bel-gium and northern France. "Whenever in tins war the victor has spoken to the vanquished, at Brest-Litovsk Brest-Litovsk and Bucharest, his words were but the seeds of future discord. The lofty aims which our adversaries first set before themselves in their conduct of (he war, the new era of an assured peace of justice, demand a treaty Instinct In-stinct with different spirit. Only the co-operation of all nations, a co-operation of hands and spirits, can build up a durable peace. We are under no delusions regarding the strength of the hatred and bitterness which this war has engendered, and yet the forces which are at work for a union of mankind man-kind are stronger now than ever they were before. The historic task of the peace conference of Versailles Is to bring about this union." |
