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Show GERMANS AGREE TO 1 SIGN ALLIES' TERMS i i JUNKERS ARE OUTVOTED BY FRIENDS OF QUICK PEACE IN j HUN PARLIAMENT. National Assembly by a Vote of 23? to 138 Decides to Accept Peace Terms, Declaring People Were Not Responsible for War. Berlin Germany w ill sign the peace treaty. The national assembly on June 22, by a vote of 237 to 13S, decided de-cided to sign. Tlie assembly also voted vot-ed confidence in the new government of Herr Bauer, 236 to NO. Sixty-eight members abstained from voting. On the question of signing the treaty five members of Hie assembly abstained ab-stained from voting. Before the vote of confidence was taken, Herr Bauer, the new premier, declared that the government would sign the treaty, but without acknowledging acknow-ledging tlie responsibility of tlie German Ger-man people for the war and without accepting the obligations contained in articles 227 to 230 in the treaty relating relat-ing to the trial of the former emperor and the extradition of other German personages. In announcing the decision of the government to sign the peace terms, Premier Bauer said before the national na-tional assembly : "The allied and associated powers cannot expect the German people to agree from inner conviction to a peace, instrument, whereby, without the populations pop-ulations being consulted, living members mem-bers are severed from the German known empire, German sovereignty permanently violated and unbearable economic and financial burdens imposed im-posed upon the German people." Terms Germany Accepts. Here are the high spots of the treaty of peace which Germany will officially accept. Germany loses Alsace-Lorraine, the Saar basin (at least for 15 years), a strip of upper Silesia, the district of Memel, Danzig, most of Posen and portions of West Prussia and Pomerania, part of Schleswig (if a plebicite so decides), all her colonies and extra European rights and possessions, pos-sessions, certain small districts to Belgium, Bel-gium, her entire navy (now sunk), and all her military and naval air forces. She cannot incorporate German Austria in her empire. She must reduce her army within three months to 200,000 and by March 31, 1920, to 100,000. She must abolish conscription. She must dismantle all forts 50 kilometers kilo-meters east of the Rhine within six months,' agreeing to allied occupation for 15 years or until the reparation sum, not yet fixed, is paid. |