GERMAN COUNTER TERMS.
THE RHUCE OCCUPATION. A FIXED INDEMNITY. PARIS, May 26. The Berlin correspondent of the "Temps" states that the German counterproposals to the peace terms include the following: — Germany is ready to assure France the Saar coal and even certain rights in the Ruhr Basin. Germany will accept the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine for a period fixed by the Versailles Conference, but will ask that the area remain under German administration, and that the plebiscite clause be suppressed. Germany will recognise Polish soveI reignty over the territory within the line of demarcation fixed in the armistice terms, and will demand a plebiscite in the other district now proposed to be included in Poland. Germany will propose a free port of Danzig, with autonomous Polish administration of the Polish railway. Germany will demand a fixed figure for the indemnities, contending that it will be impossible to draw up a Budget and impose taxes without knowing exactly what the country has to pay. (Router.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 125, 27 May 1919, Page 5
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GERMAN COUNTER TERMS.
Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 125, 27 May 1919, Page 5
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