GERMAN BITELS

Evening Star, Issue 17084, 1 July 1919, Page 3

GERMAN BITELS

WILL IT LAST* Press Association —By Tc' eg r aph—Copyright. Australian and N. Z. Cable Association. LONDON, June 29. The Berlin newspapers make the bitterest comments on the signing. ‘ \ orwaits ’ says : “It is not a final peace. We shall not carry on the fight with lethal weapons, but wage an energetic spiritual fight.” ■ BERLIN, June 29. Tile sigrutuie caused little excitement here. The issue of' the newspaper ‘ Deutsche Zeitung ’ was suppressed for publishing a wild article, headed ‘ German People! Revenge.’ Dr Bethmann Holiweg has sent a Note to M. Clemenceau asking to be trie.' under article 227 instead of tire ex-Kaiser. PARIS, June 29. The Supreme Council have notified German} that the blockade will be lifted automatically as soon as Germany ratifies the treaty. CHINA WAITS. PARIS, June 29. The Chinese delegation have issued a Note regretting their inability to sign. The delegates regret taking a course which appears to mar the solidarity of the Allies, but they had no other honorable course to pursue, the Peace Conference having denied China justice. She submits her case to the impartial judgment of the world. SMUTS’S OBJECTIONS. PARIS, June 29. General Smuts signed miner protest, because he believes the treaty does not achieve the real peace which the nations desire. There are also territorial matters which he considers need revision, punishments foreshadowed which might be allowed to pass into oblivion, and indemnities stipulated which can only be gravely injurious to an industrial revival in Europe. “OLD MAN” CLEMENCEAU. INFLEXIBLE TO THE END. PARIS, June 29. . Mr Keith Murdoch, describing the signing ceremony, says; The German delegates, on entering, looked pale and despairing, and as if their only desire was to get through this task. Muller is a squareheaded, fair-haired, youngish Prussian, tall and slim. Bell is more perky, thin, with quizzical eyes, but little character in his expression. The delegates having taker, their seats, M. Clemenceau rose and said: “The ; Allies, their associates, and the Germans have agreed upon terms of peace.” Then he ripped out characteristically: ‘‘The debt has been redeemed. The signatures will be given now. They amount to a solemn undertaking to execute faithfully and loyally all conditions.” An interpreter translated M. Clemenceau as saying “German Republic.” “No,” cried the old man, “the German Reich.” Mr Murdoch explains that it is not France’s belief that Germany’s republican trappings are honest. Then came the signing. The Germans ware conducted to tb? middle of the room, penned the fateful words, and walked quickly buck to their seats. The most pathetic incident of the signing was the presence of a mini her of French soldiers who were fearfullv disfigured facially. They were placed in an alcove immediately in front of the peace table. General Mano iry, the blind French general, was also present. IN LONDON. KING’S AND PRIME MINISTER’S SPEECHES. LONDON, June 29. ThJ King’s notable 19-word speech to the crowd from the balcony of Buckingham Palace was as follows : Peace has been signed, and thus ends the greatest war in history. I join with you in thanking God. June 30. The King, the Prince of Wales. Prince -Albert, and a vast crowd welcomed Mr Lloyd George and the ether British delegates. including Mr W. M. Hughes, at the Victoria station, on their return from Paris. Five hundred Australians formed a guard of honor outside the station. Responding to an ovation. Mr Lloyd George appeared at the upper window of his residence at 10 Downing street, and said: A just peace has been concluded by the labors and sacrifices of men of all classes and all races. A peace charged with hope has been won for the world. I trust that the unity and spirit of concord and co-operation which won the great peace will continue, and help to establish a new world won by the sacrifices of millions of valiant men. The hideous slaughter of brave men has ended in a righteous pence. Let us 1 thank God tor it, and rejoice in that j great victory, not in a spirit of boast- I fulness, which brought about Germany’s downfall, but in a. spirit of reverence worthy of the noble sacrifices. CHURCH SERVICES AND A THANK OFFERING. LONDON. June 29. Reference to peace was made in all the pulpits to-day. St. Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey were crowded. The services included the National Anthem, and a, solemn Te Deurn was sung. There were also special references in Russian and Greek churches in London. Amounts totalling £50,000.000 were 1 subscribed to the Joy Loan in Trafalgar 1 square. RETURNING DELEGATES. PARIS, June 29. President Wilson will sail at noon today. The Australian delegation has left for London. LONDON, June 29. . A wireless message from the Mauretania states that Mr Massey is aboard. ENFORCING THE TERMS. GERMANS AND THE BALTIC PROVINCES. PARIS, June 29. General Nudant instructed the Gorman Armistice Commission, on behalf of the 1 Allies, to stop immediately all further ad- ! vance in Esthonia; also to evacuate as rapidly as possible Wimlau, Libau, and all territories hitherto .belonging to_ Russia, in terms of article 12 of the armistice. t HUNGARY. ENTENTE DISCOURAGE HOSTILITIES. i Eeuter*? TelegramsBUDAPEST. June 20 (delayed). M. Clemenceau has telegr.phed to the Hungarian' Government that the Allies have instructed General Pell, commander of the Cz;ch i- 1 v k ar y, to arrange for i the evacuation of his forces from Hungary. I Pull compensation v ill be_ denianded for unlawful damage. The Allies will also request the Rumanian army to ova uate Hungary under similar conditions as soon as the Czscho-Slovak evacuation has been completed. General Pell has been directed that cessation of hostilities must take effect on the 24th and evacuation on the 28th. The Hungarian commander has declared his readiness to fulfil these conditions.

THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION AMSTERDAM, Juno 29. Fighting continues in Budapest, but it is reported that Bela Run ha-; auppve-'sod the (.'ovnte.r-rcvolution, and is ordering a number of executions. AUSTRIA AND THE LEAGUE. PARIS, June 27. Dr Renner has sent ® Note to the Peace Con'emce dem ndrng Austria's admittance into the League of Nat one on ternis of equality with other members. BOLSHEVISM. PARIS. June 29. It is reported that the Bolsheviks massacred 800 ofir el's in Petrcgrad in one day alone. Three thousand officers were sent as hostages to Moscow. TROUBLE IN GERMANY. AMSTERDAM, June 29. Martial law his been proclaimed in Frankfort, and Imperial troops have occupied the Town Hall. The “Iron Divis on” has occupied Hamburg to prevent the strikers from interfering with incoming food ships. RUMOR AMD THE CROWN PRINCE. PARIS, June 27. The ox-Orown Prince of Germany, with a Staff officer, escaped into Germany from Holland. VON REUTER’S EGG. LONDON, June 29. | Admiral V n R ”tcr was re o nis:d leav- j ing a- bank at Oswestry, in Shropshire, j He was hooted and struck on the cheek with a rotten egg while entering his‘motor car.