GERMAN OPPOSITION TO PEACE TERMS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 178, 23 April 1919, Page 7

GERMAN OPPOSITION TO PEACE TERMS

VIOLENT CRUSADE IN PROGRESS. Berlin, April 16. There is an organised newspaper outcry against the solution of tho Saar Vallev question. "Vorwaerts" and other journals declare that it will be impossible for Gprmany to sign peace on the lines of the semi-official messages from Paris, which reduce the Fourteen Points to a sham. Prince Lichnowsky says that the peace proposal is a sword-rattling peace, end could only be maintained by force. It must be rejected in the interests of man-kind—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. "VORWAERTS" CAUSES A SENSATION. London, April 21. The "Daily Chronicle's" Berlin correspondent says the newspaper "Vorwaerts' " comments upon the forecast of the Peace Treaty telegraphed from Paris caused a sensation. "Vorwaerts" says that the Entente Powers will make a terriblo mistake if they believe that any German Government could sign such conditions. "If tho Entente Powers intend these conditions to be fulfilled they must themselves undertake the task and discover how they cap deal with the German inhabitants of the Saar Valley. The Entente Powers will soon find that tho proposed payments cannot be collected even if tho sheets are taken .from the beds and boots from the feet of tho inhabitants. No German Government can be compelled to sign the treaty while affirming this to be .11 just peace calculated to givo everlastiiii,' rest to Europe. - Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DELEGATES TO BE WELL HEDGED. ARRANGEMENTS "FOR, SECRECY AT VERSAILLES. New York, April 20. The New York "Times" Paris correspondent states that extraordinary steps will bo taken to prevent the German peace delegates at Versailles from having communication with the rest oi tlio world. It is proposed to erect an eightfoot barrier of trellis-work from the Hotel des Reservoirs, where the delegation (which will probably number ,a) will be housed, (0 the rear of the '.Ination Place Hotel, thus forming a complete enfigure. The delegates will not leave the enclosure until the day the treaty is signed, and no one will be allowed to enter the hotel unless lie bears n special permit.—Aus.-N.Z.. Cable Assn.