READY FOR ACTION

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 210, 30 May 1919, Page 5

READY FOR ACTION

IF GERMANS REFUSE TO SIGN PLANS TO INVADE GERMANY MORE ABOUT ENEMY'S COUNTER-PROPOSALS (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Paris, May 28. ; Immediately Germany refuses to sign the Peace Treaty the Allied Armies, alter 72 hours' notice, will advance on Germany. Arrangements for blockading Ihe coast are complete.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 1 GERMAN COUNTER-PROPOSALS Paris, May 28. The German counter-proposals demand a Pence based on the Fourteen Points, an indemnity, and the raising of the British blockade. They point out. that Germany is now a strictly democratic country.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. DEMONSTRATION IN BERLIN * VIOLENT SPEECH BY GENERAL HOFFMAN. Copenhagen, May 17 (delayed). Forty thousand demonstrators in Berlin protosted against the disarmament of Germany, and expressed confidence, in the Government to only accept a Peace based on right. General Hoffman (who was a member of the German delegation to BrestLitovsk)', addressing the Bavarian Assembly at Bamberg, violently protested against the terms, and rejected the idea of seeking a separate Peace for Bavaria.-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITAIN'S GIANT AIRSHIP TO MAKE THE TRIP London, May 17 (delayed); The Air Ministry contemplates that the airship R34 will shortly attempt a nonstop Atlantic flight from Ireland to Newfoundland, via the Azores' 1 . She will carry sufficient fuel for the round trip. There is no hangar in America large enough to house the monster airship.— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. AMERICAN DIRIGIBLE BROUGHT BACK. St. Johns, May 16 (delayed). A United. States destroyer has returned with the dirigible which was lost at sen.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE COUNTER-PROPOSALS ■(Rec. May 29, 5.35 p.m.) 1 Copenhagen, May 27. • The German newspapers contain the text of the counter-proposals. ■ These declare :— That Germany is willing to reduce armaments more than the Allies demand; That Germany will propose a special Commission of all the belligerents to settle territorial and colonial questions, and deal with the League of Nations; That Germany will definitely decline to surrender Upper, Silesia or any part of Prussia,; That Germany will demand that Danzig shall be a free port, and'the Vistula neutralised; That Germany will offer to assume the direction of the-German colonies under the Leaß'ie of Nations, That Germany will refuse to accept the punishment terms; '■ ""' That Germany is ready to give an inaeninity of one hundred milliard marks in gold, and a further twenty milliards before' 1920.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable'Assn. ALLIES WILL DECSANY DISCUSSION (Rec. May 29, 8.35 p.m.) / Paris, May 28. The Allies Will decline any discussion on tho Pence terras beyond the methods of their application—Aus.-N.Z; Cablo Assn.