FIRM REFUSAL BY GERMANS
STORMY SCENES AT SPA
RANTZAU MAY BE REPLACED
10NITBD rRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPXMGHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLB ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 30th May The German. Foreign Office has categorically declined to sign the peace terms. Count Rantzau, addressing several of his departing colleagues at Versailles, declared : "Tell them at Berlin that I will never sign the peace preliminaries unless . they are seriously modified. Someone else may sign. I won't." Possibly Herr Erzberger will replace Count Rantzau. PARIS, 20th May. It is rumoured among the German delegates that the meeting between Count Rantzau and the Berlin emissaries -at . .!>2>a was a stonay one, and that it is un..ifccly that Count Rantzau will return to V eK-ailles. Herr Scheidemnn.ii (Pre- , mierj m.iy replace , him. - ' Herr Scheidemann, at &■ meeting of the Grand Council at, Berlin, advocated an appeal, to the international democracy and an alliance with the Russian Bolsheviks. Generals who' were present protested that the remedy would be worse than the disease. Opinion prevailed that armed resistance would be impossible) that Count Rantzau and Herr Scheidemann would be unable to influence the Allies, and that therefore the acceptance of the terms was inevitable.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 128, 2 June 1919, Page 7
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