THE PEACE TREATY.
rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION . IF THEY DON’T SIGN. j
ALLIED ARMIES READY.
PARIS, -May 28.
Immediately that Germany refuses to sign the Treaty, the Allied Armies, after seventy-two hours notice, will advancc into Germany. Arrangements for blockading the Coast are complete.
GERMAN COUNTER PROPOSALS
BERLIN, May 27. The German counter proposals are
The disarming of all battleships. The making of conditions for the restoration of part of Germany’s meroan. tile fleet.
Germany refuses to cede upper Sillesia.
The occupied German territory to be evacuated by six months.
Germany to be accorded membership in the League of Nations.
No terriorial changes without the population concerned, agreeing thereto. Germany offers to pay the Allies, an indemnity totallying 100,000,000,000 of marks.
COPENHAGEN, May
German newspapers contain the text of the counter proposals. These declare- Germany is ; willing to reduce her armaments more titan is demanded.
Germany proposes a special Commission of all the belligerents to settle the territorial and colonial questions and to deal with the League of Nations.
Germany demands that Dantzig be a free port, and the Vistula- be neutralised.
She offers to assume idirection of the German colonies under the League of Nations.
Germany refuses to accept the pun. ishment terms.
Germany is ready to give the injdemifity of a hundred milliards of marks in gold; also a further twenty milliards of marks before 1926.
ALLIED (ATTITUDE. PARIS, May 28.
The Allies will decline any discussion on their terms with Germany, beyond the methods of their application.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 May 1919, Page 2
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