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Show 1 View of Ponta. Delgatla, Azores, wheuce the American navy plane NC-4 started on the last leg of its transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to Lisbon. 2 A few of the hundreds of New York school children who held a demonstration against the war tax on soda water and ice cream. 3. The Poilas, second largest concrete ship in the world, just before it was launched at Long Island City. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Germans Hand in Their Counter-Proposals Counter-Proposals for Peace to Council of Four. WANT TO RETAIN COLONIES Make Many Other Demands to Which Allies Will Not Yield Adriatic Question Ques-tion Settled, Fiume Becoming Independent In-dependent City Western Canada Can-ada Strike Spreads. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The Germans have handed in their connter-proposals 10S printed pages of them with the evident and presumably pre-sumably justified feeling that they won't do Germany any particular good. If the replies of the allies to Brock-uorff-Rantzau's preliminary notes furnish fur-nish any basis for prediction, it is safe to say that this bunch of counter-proposals will in the main be turned down flat by the council of four. As was easily foreseen, the Germans predicate their propositions largely on the fourteen points and on various idealistic utterances of President Wilson Wil-son and others, and quotations from these are used liberally. The ideas of territorial self-determination and opportunities for economic development develop-ment are played upon strongly, and the peace terms prepared by the allies al-lies are declared to be In contradiction to a just peace and dominated by the "might greater than right" principle. Germany refuses absolutely to cede Upper Silesia, and declines to give up the Saar basin, Posen and other territory terri-tory unless a plebiscite is held. Danzig, Dan-zig, she says, must be a free port and must not be in any way controlled by the Poles, but it Is agreed that the Vistula river may be neutralized as far as the Polish border. She agrees to surrender her warships and to dissolve dis-solve the rest of her navy, but demands de-mands merchant shipping in exchange, saying this is necessary to her commercial com-mercial life. She accepts the limitation limita-tion of the army to 100,000 men, but wants more than that for the present to maintain order. She offers to pay an indemnity of $5,000,000,000 in gold by 1926 and to make annual payments thereafter up to a total of $25,000,000.-000, $25,000,000.-000, but puts in a counter-claim of about $3,300,000,000 for damages from the allied blockade. The Germans refuse to admit that Germany is alone to blame for the war and Its damage, and take a ship at Italy and Roumania. which, they assert, as-sert, entered the conflict for territorial territo-rial conquest. As for personal responsibility, respon-sibility, they declare they will not surrender sur-render the former kaiser and others for trial by the allies, asserting they can be tried only by Germans or neutrals. neu-trals. Return of Germany's colonies is demanded, de-manded, though it is agreed that tier-many tier-many might he willlngg to act as mandatory man-datory for them under the league ot nations, and the right of Germany to enter the league at once on an equality equal-ity with other nations is asserted. All occupied territories, say the Counterproposals, Counter-proposals, must be evacuated within six months. In claiming the return of the colonies the Oermans call attention atten-tion to the fact that an impartial settlement set-tlement of all colonial claims was promised In number live of the fourteen four-teen points. This reads : "Free, open-minded, and absolutely Impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all SUCh questions of sovereignly the in terests of the population concerned must have equal weight with the equl-table equl-table claims of the government whose 1 1 1 le is lo I'm- determined." Since Germany's administration of her colonial possessions, especially those In Africa, was notoriously oppressive op-pressive lo the natives. It Is hard to see how she can gain much by an appeal lo an agreement that the Inter ests of the people concerned shall be given full weight. Germany's claim for damages due bo VX blockade Is based on Hie alleged loss of thousands of lives from hunger hun-ger and malnutrition. But the allied council is ready for vhem on this point with statistics that prove the infant mortality in German cities would have been kept at near normal If the distribution dis-tribution of the country's milk supply had been efficient, since the milk production pro-duction never was below 45 per cent of the pre-war figures. Mortality in hospitals, due to lack of rubber and cotton, also was cited by the Germans. To this the allies reply that the imports im-ports of rubber and cotton were much in excess of hospital requirements, but the authorities chose to devote these supplies to military purposes, and for this choice the allies cannot be held responsible. re-sponsible. These are the outstanding points in the counter-proposals made by the Huns. They object, of course, to in-nuinmerable in-nuinmerable other clauses in the treaty, especially the economic provisions, provi-sions, and offer many substitutions and modifications. It is not likely that the council of four will require many days to digest the document and reply re-ply to it. Then the Germans will be required to sign the treaty within a given time, presumably before June 15. If, unexpectedly, they refuse to sign, they will be given 72 hours' notice no-tice of the termination of the armistice and then the blockade will be restored with all its former rigidity and the allied armies of occupation will advance ad-vance farther into German territory. No one pretends thnt the Germans could offer serious armed resistance to such a movement. An indication of the unyielding spirit of the allies was given last week when American and British troops were landed at Danzig and their warships began to gather there. At home In Germany the counter-proposals counter-proposals seemed to please no one. The conservative papers denounced them as too yielding and the radical press said they did not yield enough. None had much hope of their success. suc-cess. According to correspondents in Germany, Ger-many, the Germans Intend to sign the treaty, but also intend to evade Its terms in every way possible. This would mean that the allies would be compelled to keep under arms a large force of "collectors." The German people, as a whole, say these correspondents, corre-spondents, have adopted the position that they will pay for the war only what Is forced out of them. They are more united In spirit than at anytime before for several years, and cannot be brought to see that they are a defeated, de-feated, not a conquering people. In other words, say these observers. Germany Ger-many has not had enough whipping. The terms of peace with Austria, though not wholly completed, were handed to the Austrian delegates. All the territorial questions were Included, hut certain economic arrangements and the matter of reparation were left for further consideration. It was known, however, that Austria would be required to pay about 2,500,000.000 kroner indemnity, and that the payment pay-ment of a like si 1 1 1 1 would be apportioned apportion-ed among Hungary. Czecho-Slavakla, Jugo-Slavla, Roumania. Poland and Italy. The countries that formerly formed parts of the Austro-Hunga-I'lan empire have agreed to share in the payment of Indemnity, not as enemies en-emies of the allies, but in recognition of their liberation. They also will redeem re-deem proportionately their share of the Austrian paper currency in circulation circu-lation within their boundaries. Italy Is included because of her acquisition of the Trentino, Trieste and oilier territory ter-ritory that was Austrian. it was onnounced in Paris that the Adriatic muddle had been cleared up at last. Flume Is lo he aii Independent Independ-ent City and Italy Is lo gel SebeniCO and Zaril, together wilh soverlgnly over certain strategic Islands, News from Itllsslu Is frequently delayed de-layed and often confusing, hut the latest advices from thnt wretched country show that Admiral Kolchnk Is unremittingly driving the bolshevik forces inward. Some days ago he was attacking Orenburg, an Important railway rail-way junction anil a bolshevik stronghold strong-hold in southeastern Russia. Dispatches Dis-patches from Omsk told of a revolt: against the soviet rule In (he Ukraine, Trotzky's forces thus being attacked '' r i j i r i the rear. The JCsthOnlanS con tinued their advance on Petrograd while declaring they meant to occupy that city only to relieve its suffering inhabitants, and if recent reports from there are reliable the relief is sadly needed, for the people are said to be starving to death by the thousands. New units of the British volunteer army arrived at Archangel and the transports that took them were expected ex-pected to bring away the American troops that have been serving there, and whose return has been so loudly demanded. According to Maxim Gorky, who was interviewed by Frazier Hunt, the outside world cannot aid Russia; bolshevlsm must run its course, bringing bring-ing gradual starvation and paralysis of industries; a great revolt will follow, with a reign of terror, and then there will be a constituent assembly in which the peasants will assert their power and form a democracy. The Budapest communists claimed to have defeated the forces of the "enemy" that were advancing on the city, and assert that one Roumanian regiment was almost wiped out. Bela Kun, however, is not satisfying Lenine, who announces that Moscow, not Budapest, is the revolutionary center of the world and its orders must be obeyed, and that the Hungarian revolution revo-lution is not proceeding well. In the United States senate the battle bat-tle over the league of nations is proceeding pro-ceeding merrily, and on Wednesday the Democratic national committee took a hand. It unanimously adopted adopt-ed resolutions demanding that the league covenant be ratified by the senate, sen-ate, which is controlled by the Republicans, Repub-licans, and then its members indicated that the rejection of the covenant would not be unwelcome to them, because be-cause it would force the political issue. is-sue. Reed of Missouri delivered in the senate a fierce denunciation of the league, in the course of which he said the covenant meant the domination of the white races by the black, yellow and brown races, his appeal being chiefly to the southern and far western west-ern senators. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Ar-kansas, also a Democrat, replied to Reed and challenged him to join him in resigning and seeking re-election as a test of the sentiment of their states on the league question. Secretary Daniels, appearing before be-fore the house committee on naval affairs, af-fairs, formally withdrew his recommendation recom-mendation for a second three-year program of battleship building which, as he formerly said, was designed to make the American navy the biggest In the world. Last winter he told the congressmen con-gressmen that even with a league of nations the United States should have a navy as large as Great Britain's. Now lie says we must show our confidence confi-dence in the efficacy of the league by at least postponing any plans for such a naval increase. The great general strike which has tied up and almost Isolated Winnipeg lias not yet been brought to an end, and, despite the efforts of the government govern-ment representatives, Is spreading to other cities of western Canada. The authorities declare the agitators are trying to overthrow the dominion and provincial governments and to establish estab-lish bolshevlsm. This the strike leaders lead-ers deny, but their course lends credibility credi-bility to the accusation. Ostensibly the strike is to enforce the workers' demand for the right of collective bargaining, bar-gaining, but the plan to form the "one big union," fostered by the I. W. w.. Is apparently at the bottom of the trouble. trou-ble. Lieutenant Commander Head and his crew of the American navy plane NC-4 completed their great achievement achieve-ment of crossing the Atlantic by airplane air-plane by dying from the Azores to Lisbon. Lis-bon. Portugal. The last leg of the epoch-making flight was without special Incident. The bold aviators were received re-ceived in Lisbon with plaudits and given giv-en decorations. Hawker and Grieve, given up for dead, were picked up in raid-Atlantic by a small steamer which look them in Great Britain. There they were welcoi I as the heroes they undoubtedly undoubt-edly are. though their nttempt failed. It was regrettable thai Hawker should show himself lo be a poor sport by belittling and sneering at Hie lent in" the Americana. |