REPLY TO GERMANY.
BY M. CLEMENCEAU,
HOME TRUTHS DRIVEN' HOME. • Received May 28, 8 pjn. Paris, May 23, Replying to Count von Rantzau's note regarding economic questions, M. Clemenceau says the note ignores the origin and results of the war. The Allies are only asking Germany to hand over four million tons of shipping, whereas Germany had sunk twelve million tons during the way. M. Clemenceau admits that important wheat and potato areas have been taken front Germany, hut these areas would remain free to export to Germany. Replying (o the complaint about lives being lost owing tc the blockade, M. Clemenceau reminds the Germans that there were greater losses of lives caused hy their ruthless aggressions. The reply concludes: "Nothing can prevent Gennany regaining her position of prosperity in Europe- Her territories suffered less during the war than the other belligerents. Germany possesses tesouroes intact, which, together with importations, should suffice to reconstitute her. Moreover, the great reduction in armaments will mean a huge economy. Germany's, suffering* arise not from the conditions flf peace, but from the acts of those who provoked and prolonged the war, the authors of which will not be able to escape Its just consequences." Received May 29, 8 p.m. London, May 23. M, Pemenceau, in reply to the German note for the repatriation of prisoners, says that the Allies cannot release those of crimes, nor is he awaxe that any alleviation of their position is possible, since their treatment has always been in accord with the laws of humanity. The Allies will restore their personal property when the prisoners are repatriated. He agrees to the appointment of a mixed commisison when peace is signed, but must refuse complete reciprocity in the return of the prisoners, in view of. the treatment received by the Allies interned in Germany during the war.
JfcfePARED FOR EMERGENCIES. SO MODIFICATION PERMITTED. London, May 16. ' font Ctazon, in a speech at a Primrose League meeting, said that in the event at Germany's refusal to sign the treaty the Allies were prepared for every emeizepcsr. No substantial modification of the'treaty would be permitted. Our terms were such a contrast to Germany's proposed terms, if she had been victorious tittt they recalled Clive'a phrase: "We stud aghast at onr own moderation."' ■ Paris, May 16. ProHshly the Austrian treaty will be presented on Wednesday. The latest : date for the signing of the German, Austrian, and Hungarian treaties is fixed for June 6. ' A fall eolation of the Adriatic queslion 'is not required in the treaty. It > will suffice if Austria renounces her claim to the liberated territories. A British proposal is on foot that Turkish and Bulgarian representatives should not be invited to St. Cloud (Versailles), but should meet the Allies at Salonika.
Allied troops have occupied Smyrna on fcJiftlf of the Greeks, who are eir route, fThere is great enthusiasm at MKheggki—'Aw. iCK €U>le Assoc.
DUTCH-BELGIAN CLAIMS, JHB-GHINISE AGREEMENT.. Received May 28. 9 pinr. Bans, May W. We Council of Four continued the Uintupiaa of the Dutch-Belgian claims. It is understood the Dtrtdi admit the revision of tba treaty would allow them the use of the mouths of the Scheldt mi? Mease without concessions of sovereignty. It if seml-offiolally denied that ait fflvttetit® k» Jpew loot to the Bulgarian plenipotentiaries ?rogi«M JnfornsMaon regarding the Chiyeto agreement shows that the new diyWraß and spheres of influence in the FarEaat are to be as follows: The British sphere of igflflence-'Thibet, Szu Chuan And west Slain} the French sphere, east Slam. Yun Nan, Kiaoehau, and Kuanzmooi; Jaipanese sphere, Shantung, Mandraria, and Mongolia. The agreement opens the Yangtse nver to the British, Frendi, and Japanese on equal term, ThjspHee of the Japanese recognition of (taper*! Koftchak in Siberia will be their withdrawal from the Russian ■bheroe ft» 'KanAuria and Mongolia. desirous of signing the treaty with a reservation respecting the Japanese dames. The Comtcil discussed the new situation which has developed as a oonsequeflce of tie Bolshevist refusal of the conditions suaffsted by the Allies for the' revietnallins wheme. A Bolshevist wireless message to-day endeavors to suggest that thev did not refuse the terms. This is an apparent attempt to. re-open negotiations. —Aug. ft 7. Cable Assoc.
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