TERMS FOR GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 16991, 13 March 1919, Page 3

TERMS FOR GERMANY

NEW ARMISTICE DEMANDS,

MERGING INTO PRELIMINARY PEACE.

Pms Asioeiation— By Telegraph— Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

__ PARIS, March 10. The Supreme War Council will resume immediately after the conference with the German representatives at Brussels. It is expected that Germany will accept the following programme, which will be proposed by the War Council -.—The partial removal of the blockade, the establishment of neutral credits by Germany, and the use of the German gold reserve if necessary. M. Picfaon, French Foreign Minister, states that the War Council adopted in principle Mr Lloyd George's proposition for a long-service volunteer German army.

5 larch 11. The German fleet will bo restricted to ® ironclads, 5 cruisers, 12 large and 26 to all destroyers. Germany will ho required to comply srith the military terms within two inonths.

NEW YORK, March 10. It is understood, that the preliminary Feace Treaty with "Germany will probably include provision for the surrender of all German officials responsible for war crimes against the Allies. FEEDING THE ENEMY. PARIS, March 11. Germany’s food requirements are aslessed at 000.000 tons monthly, consisting entirely of wheat and meat. VIENNA, March 9. Intelligent Viennese say that unless tho Allies interfere Austria will drift under the domination of Germany. Conditions in Austria are terrible. No food is coming in, PARIS, March 9. The Supreme War Council have practically put Mr Hoover in control of the Austrian railroads. Mr Hoover has appointed American army engineers to operate the lines. DEVASTATION FIGURES. PARIS, March IG. M. Deschanel. President of the Chamber sf Deputies, says that out of 6,0CX),000 devastated acres in Northern France a quarter of a million acres will never again’ be cultivable; another million will bo cultivable only at great expense. A million acres of forests were destroyed. -March 11. A special department has been created to identify and recover machinery stolen from Franc© and Belgium. ITALY AND JUOO-SLAVS. ANOTHER CLASH IN DALMATIA. LONDON, March 11. There have been further disquieting incidents between the Italians and the Jugoslavs in the Eastern Adriatic. The Jugoslavs insulted the Italian flag, and "an armed conflict ensued at Spahito (Dalmatian port). Detachments from tho four Powers (Italy being the fifth) restored order.

PARING GERMAN FRONTIERS.

PARIS. March 11. It is expected that the Peace Conference will accept Denmark’s offer for SchleswigHolstein. It is considered certain that Poland will receive Dantzig. POLAND’S INAUSPICIOUS START. NEW YORK, larch 9. It is leiimed that as a result of the bombardment of Lemberg the Allied Mission informed the Ukrainian Government that further hostilities against the Poles would constitute a rupture between the Ukrainians and the Allies. March 10. The ' New York Herald’s’ Warsaw correspondent says that the conditions in Poland are tinctured with misery, Hunger, suffering, and unemployment are the poison of Bolshevism. There are 100,000 cases of typhus, as well as epidemics of influenza and pneumonia. The death rate is tremendous. There is a lack of food and medical supplies. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. PARIS, March 9. The newspapers are strongly in favor of a revision of the 1839 Treaty in Belgium’s favor, on the ground that Holland violated. the treaty by not opposing the passage of German troops. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. NEW YORK, March 9. The United Press correspondent on board President Wilson’s vessel stated that it ia understood that the latter is opposed to any change in the draft constitution of the League of Nations. Mr Wilson will undoubtedly resist such opposition when he reaches Paris. PARIS. March 11. The Peace Conference are likely to appoint forthwith a commission to define the meaning of “mandate.” Mr W. M. Hughes (Prime Minister of Australia) has sent a note to M. Clemenceau urging despatch. He said the uncertainty had embarrassed Australia, Sir R. L. Borden, interviewed in Paris, stated that the United States and Canada were vitally and directly interested in the affairs of the Pacific, which will become the centre of their activities in the future. Canada’s viewpoint with regard to iho Pacific was the same a# that of the United States.

GERMANY AND INTERNATIONAL LABOR. PARIS, March 9. It is understood that the German delegates to the Peace Conference will particularly urge the adoption of measures for the protection of the workmen of die world, such as the equitable conditions of labor and the right to organise. LUDENDORFF ON DEFEAT, BOME FRANK ADMISSION'S. NEW YORK. March 9. A New York morning newspaper prints excerpts from a book by Marshal Von Ludendorff explaining his part in the war. Es says : “ The German Emperor made a decision on January 9, 1917, meant ruthless submarine war, and the Supreme Army Command were compelled to obey his orders. Any subsequent action by President Wilson could not change the Kaiser’s policy. “During the spring of 1918, when we were still victoriously invading France, I confided to the party leaders that it would be best to make peace as quickly as possible. Early in July. 1918, I hoped it would be possible to force peace by a continuous attack on the enemy lines: but this hope was shattered by the middle of that month. After the defeat on August 8 I surrendered all hope. I informed the party leaders by the end of September that the enemy would break through the German lines. “When President Wilson's third Note arrived I determined to fight to the bitter end, being unwilling to make an unconditional surrender. We could have held out {i few' months longer after November, but X was overruled."