THE EXPECTED SQUEAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 197, 15 May 1919, Page 5

THE EXPECTED SQUEAL

GERMAN OUTCRY AGAINST PEACE TERMS VIOLENT SPEECH BY HERR SCHEIDEMANN THE CHINO-JAPANESE DIFFICULTY REPORTED COMPROMISE WITH ITALY By Telegraph-Press Assoeiation.-OonTrlgut Copenhagen, May 13. Herr Schoidemann, addressing representatives of the foreign Press, outlined the speech which he later delivered to tho National • .Assembly. He said it would be possible to form a Government which would sign tho terms of peace, but it was doubtful whether such a Government would be acceptable to the Allies. Tho manifesto of the Independents eliowecl their willingness to sign, but. personally he thought the present Coalition was the only possible Government. A reactionary Government would be impossible, while an Independent Socialist Administration would be as unable to fulfil (he conditions as the existing one. "We will do all we can to modify and make: the terms acceptable, but it. is not to be thought that we can secure a Government to accept the terms in their present form." He protested against the violence it would involve against the German people. The Social Democrats opposed a. definite refusal to sign the Treaty— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A VIOLENT SPEECH (Hec, May 14, .11.5 p.m.) Berlin, May 12. Speaking in the National Assembly Herr Scheideniann ma'de a violent. onslaught on the Peace Treaty, describing it as "a murderous proposal." "The Allies," ho said,' "are driving a knife into the living body of the German oeople. President Wilson, who has. hitherto been pictured as the bringer of peace, is now becoming the gaoler. The proposed peace means the miserable enslavement ot our children and our children's children."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, PRESS COMMENT ON THE SPEECH. (Rec, May 14, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 13. The newspapers regard Herr Schoidemann's speech as an- indication of some anxiety to avoid banging the door on peace.—Aus.-N,Z. Cable Assn. A SOCIALIST MANIFESTO. Copenhagen, May 13. _ A manifesto by the Independent Socialists charges the German Government with inspiring the Allies with distrust by heading a movement to reconstruct the Army, which is' an insult to the proletariat, whom urges to. overthrow the Government. • The document says; "The terms are inhumanely I harsh, but refusal, of them will entail' re-enforcements of the hunger block-ade."—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo As>sn. UNABLE TO ACCEPT THE TERMS. 1 (Rec. May 14, 5.5 p.m.) | Berlin, May 13. Herr Scheideniann states_that Germany is .unable to accept the peace 'terms.— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. GERMAN OPINION ON THE PEACE TERMS ■ CHORUS OP LAMENTATION. ' (Rec. May 14, 8 p.m.) ' Berlin, May 8 (delayed). German Government circles assert that the. Government will reject any peace terms that do not coincide with President Wilson's Fourteen Points, especially as relating to Danzig and tho Saar Valley. "Vorwaerts" says: "The terms . are pi'oof of imperialism drunk with victory." The "Berliner Tageblatl" says: "Tho terms mean the end of Germany as a great Power. The Treaty lias been inspired by intoxicated brutality. The military terms are impossible and the indemnity terms only raise a grim laugh." The "Lbkal Anzeigor'' declares that the ' colonial terms are "the height, of oppression, pur worst fears are realised." Tho "Bourse Courier" nuns lip the terms as "intolerable."—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. THE LIMItIaYFORSIGNING London, May 12. The "Echo du Paris" states that it has been decided that June lsNhnll be 'the last day allowed to tho Germans for the signing' of the Treaty. President. Wilson, who will remain in Paris for the signing of the Treaty, expects to sail on June 13—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE AUSTRIAN TREATY ' SIMILAR TO THE GERMAN i 1 Paris, Mav 13. Tho Austrian Treaty is similar to the German on its general lines. It deals with the League of Nations, delines the boundaries of German Austria, abolishes conscription, reduces the Army .to a volunteer police forco, requires the surrender of munitions and artillery, and most of the Navy. Tho Hungarian frontier fortifications must be reduced. The economic provisions are easier than those for Germany, in view of the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A commission is to deal with reparations after an initial payment. "War criminals will be tried. Austria and Hungary are to hare access to the sea.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ■ chinaTndlapan CHINESE DELEGATES ORDERED NOT TO SIGN. Peking, Mm- 7. The Chinese Cabinet has decided to instruct the Chinese peace delegates at Paris not to sign the. Peace Treaty, which assigns to Japan'the German rights in Shantung—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. . STATEMENT BY BARON GOTO. New -York, May 7. _ Baron Goto, in a speech to tho Japan .Society, delivered in his capacity as a private citizen, said that Japan 'did not intend to retain Kiaochau and Shantung permanently, but would eventually restore these territories to China.—Aus.N.Z. Cablo Assn. abitterlTspatch * JAPANESE CORRESPONDENTS VIEW ON BRITAIN. Tokio, May 12. Tho "Asahi's" London correspondent sends a bitter dispatch, in which he says that Britain is thoroughly indifferent towards Japan. The Liberal and Labour newspapers arc anti-Japancs?, and never refer to (lie necessity for renewing the Angln-Jananuse Treaty.' The Brazilian naval force hud a more cordial welcome than the Japanese, who received better treatment in Franco and Italy. The cause of the changed British attitude to the Japanese is alleged to lie iudilFerenco co'u pled with the Japane.se profiteering and aggression during the war towards China, and Japan's commercial rivalry towards Britain. The correspondent concludes: "The situation is growing intoler-able."—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.. INDUSTRIAL LOANS TO CHINA. Paris, May 12. The American, British, French, and Japanese- banking group has agreed on a joint plan for advancing industrial loans to China.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE ITALIAN DIFFICULTY A WAY OUT SUGGESTED. (Rec. May 14, 8 p.m.) Paris, May 12. It is suggested that at President Wilson'sjnslnnce Italy may consent to compromise regarding Eiume on lines similar to the 'arrangement covering tho Saar Valley, seeing that Franco did not consider such an arrangement beneath her dignity to accept.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. AN ELEVENTHIoiJR CLAUSE . (Rec. May 14, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, .May 13. ,A clause was inserted in tho Peace Treaty at the eleventh liour in view of the Italian deadlock. It provides that the signatures of the three chief Allies will bo sufficient to make the Treaty effective—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.