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Show WILSON SAYS PACT HAS HISAPPROVAL NO VIOLATION OF PRESIDENT'S j FOURTEEN POINTS, BUT CONFORMS CON-FORMS TO PRINCIPLES. Answer of Allied Powers to Hun Counter-Proposals Will Be Submit-tec Submit-tec as Ultimatum, and They Can Accept or Fight. Paris. "I am convinced that our treaty project violates mum of my principles," President Wilson is quoted by the Matin as having said when he was made acquainted iviih the German Ger-man counter-proposals of the treaty. "If I held a contrary opinion I would not hesitate to confess it, and would endeavor to correct the error. The treaty, as drawn up, however, entirely conforms with my fourteen points." It is understood that reply of ihe allies to the German counter-proposals will be submitted as an ultimatum, with a short time limit, probably about four days, in which Germany will either have to take or leave the conditions condi-tions as offered therein. The most important modification under consideration, the question o reparations, probably will not involvb any material changes in the treaty as originally presented. The concessions conces-sions will, instead, be presented in the form of a supplementary agreement, defining the procedure for the reparations repara-tions commission and prescribing certain cer-tain instructions for that body. This new solution, which is expected to emerge from the deliberations of the experts, will dodge fixation of a definite monetary total for reparations, to which the French object on the ground that announcement of any sum which it is considered possible to exact in payment would so disappoint the expectations of the French public as to cause a political upheaval. The supplementary agreement also would meet the objections of the Germans, Ger-mans, who declared they were to be asked to pay off a debt the extent of which was unknown, and with the population pop-ulation in veritable economic slavery to the reparations commission under that clause of the treaty requiring Germany to "devote her economic resources re-sources directly to the physical restoration restor-ation of the invaded areas of the allied and associated powers to the extent that these powers may determine." |