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Show GERMANY DEFIANT REBELS AT TERMS "WE WILL NOT SIGN," IS THE CRY THAT RINGS THROUGH ALL HUNLAND TODAY. Threaten to Make Peace With Russia and Invite Russian Troops Into Germany in Endeavor to Evade Settlement With Allies. Berlin. Germany claims to be b.t-lerly b.t-lerly disappointed in the terms subniit-led subniit-led by the allies. "We will not sign," is the cry that rings through all Germany Ger-many today. It glares at one from every newspaper in the land and stares out of the defiant eyes of 05,000,000 men, women and children. It is the slogan at protest meetings in every city, village and hamlet and the keynote key-note of thousands of telegrams sent to the government from every part of the vaterland. ' "But if we don't what then?" timidly, tim-idly, with gloomy forebodings, the question is raised here and there. No one dares to speak the answer aloud. Yet, with these war-sickened, half-starved half-starved millions whose dreams are shattered and who dare not think in any but realistic, hard common sense terms, that fateful question is uppermost, upper-most, and all know it must be answered soon or late, and all know what the consequence of a "no" will be. From one of the German delegates at Versailles come a telegraphed statement state-ment that touche's with painful directness direct-ness what the German people view with shivering dread and yet it is in the back-of all minds: ' ' "We must make peace with Russia and invite Russian troops into Germany." Ger-many." Such is Herr Giesbert's message to his countrymen. Premier Schiedemann put the official offi-cial stamp on the defiant attitude of press and public when, addressing the peace committee of the national assembly as-sembly Friday, he openly characterized the terms as unacceptable and as constituting con-stituting "German's death sentence." |