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Show uu EBERT OPPOSES TREATY TERMS BERLIN, Wednesday. May 14. (Via London.) Frcderich Ebert, the German Ger-man president, in a statement made in the newspaper Voiwaerts, has reiterated re-iterated his opposition to the peace terms submitted by the Entente, declaring de-claring them unreconcilable with conscience con-science and reason and insisting that they must be drastically and fundamentally funda-mentally corrected. Above all, prac tical negotiations were necessary, he declared, and these would quickly result re-sult In the attainment of a worthj peace, if a return were made o the fourteen points. "As long as one remnant of hope remains re-mains that reason will triumph,' continued con-tinued President Ebert, "we will not speak our last word, but should it prove that this mailed fist peace is to be imposed on us, we shall have to make our decisions. "Today I still hope that the attempt will not be made to extort from the German nation an assent which would be nothing but a lie born of desperation despera-tion We must keep faith with our countrymen who are threatened1 I with separation b foreign lolence land be readv to carrj out the hardest resolve." no |