BERLIN IS STUNNED.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3784, 10 May 1919, Page 2

BERLIN IS STUNNED.

BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL LUDENDORFF IS VERY ANGRY "AMERICA CAN GO .TO HELL!" (Received May 10, D.lo a.m.) London, May 8. The Daily Chronicle's Berlin correspondent t» tales that the Peace Terms have stunned Berlin. Berlin business is at a standstill. The Bourse has been closed for three days. Messages lrom Paris state lhat the German delegates are despondent. Ludendorll' refused to be interviewed by the -Chronicle's correspondent, but sent the following message: — "If those are the Peace Terms, America can go to hell." The German Cabinet meets to-day, and a pronouncement is expected tomorrow. AUSTRIAN TERMS NAVY WIPED OUT. Paris, May 8. j The Austrian J'eace Terms provide for wiping out the Austrian navy. WILL APPEAL TO RUSSIA GIESBERG'S COUNSEL OF DESPAIR. Copenhagen, May U. Giesberg, one of the member's ol Seheideniann Cabinet,, in an interview, said : " Our only course h to arrange peace with Russia and in'ite Russian troops into Germany." GERMAN DELEGATES HOWLING " TERMS ARE IMPOSSIBLE." CRYING FOR LOST COLONIES. London, May 9. A German correspondent at Versailles transmits to opinions of the delegates. Giesberg says Germany can only sign a Treaty which permits of a .rebuilding of her economic life. The occupation of Jier important raw-material-producing districts is tantamount to a slow, painful death. It would bo better to return emptyhanded than with a signed Treaty containing terms which they would be lompellcd to leave unfulfilled. Germany would simply collapse under the proposed indemnity. Melchior .said: " We cannot consider a slavery binding the German workers to the French Government."

Another delegate said: "Since the Armistice was signed, strikes and •revolutions have lost us more money than the whole war. We could have borne the indemnity if it had been demanded in November. The heavy loud is now -impassible."

It is announced that tho German delegates will make counter proposals which will be thjfutmost Germany can agree to. German newspapers protest that the Terms are impossible, especially the indemnity. They protest against the veiled annexation of the Saar Valley and the loss of the colonies. Germany must reject the disposition of Dantzig. AUSTRALIA'S SHARE ( £40,000,000 INDEMNITY. (Received May 10, 11 a.m.) Melbourne, May 10. Acting-Premier Watt states that Australia will receive £40,000,000 as her sahre of the indemnity. CHINA NOT SIGNING. (Received May 10. 11 a.m.) Pars, May 9. The Chinese delegation have received instructions not to sign the Ponce Treaty. LONDON PRESS VIEWS

SOME CONFLICTING OPINIONS London, May 8. The Daily Chronicle says that the Polish settlement is incomplete, and may lead to disputes in tho next generation. The financial settlement is the least satisfactory feature of the Treaty, but the" brute fact is that Germany is incapable of making complete reparation. The Daily Express does not discuss details, but says: '-It is a good and a great peace, with just reparation and ample security." The Daily Mail says: "The military and naval terms are good and drastic, but have dangerous loopholes. On the financial side., the complete terms may .show that excessive consideration has been shown to Germany. The mercantile terms do not go far to meet the British claims-" The paper fears that the full terms will be very short of the Premier's promises.

The Daily News : " The reparation terms cannot, and should not, stand, as it would bo hard to make Germany perform them. "We are trying to have it both ways, stripping Germany naked, and then demanding that slip shall empty her pockets." The Daily Telegraph entirely approves of what it terms a "stern, stringent, and just peace." BELGIUM'S SERIOUS POSITION GRAVE DISAPPOINTMENT FELT ! GOVERNMENT URGED NOT TO SIGN THE TREATY Brussels, May 8. Under the presidency of King Albert, the Cabinet discussed Belgium's position with respect to the Peace Terms. The Premier, in an interview, said that the situation was serious and painful. The offer made from Paris was completely at variance with the earlier promises. It is understood that the Belgian representatives consider the offer of £100,000,000 sterling as greatly inadequate. Members of Parliament, of local councils, and of public bodies urge the King and the Government not to sign the Treaty. President Wilson is unpopular, and audiences in picture theatres shouted "Down with Wilson!" when his pho tograph was shown.

TO THE UTTERMOST. BELIGEItENT HUNGARIANS. DON'T LIKE THE TERMS. (Received May 10, 11 a.m.) London, Maj' 9. A Hungarian, wireless message stacoiiditkms have provoked a storm of indignation. The newspapers of Buda-Posth declare that the terms are arrogant, and the demanding the overthrow of the present form government. The only reply, they say, can be resistance to the utmost. HOW IT WAS CABLED. Wellington, May 10. The Peace Treaty, including the substitutions, ran into 30.098 words. Excellent despatch was given by the Telegraph authorities in the Dominion, but there was some hitch in the arrangements oufeide, as transmission stopped altogether for hours at a tiling and delivery was stretched over some. ,'SO hours." Jfi addition, sections did. not arrive in iheir sequence, a.iul gaps were, .left whieli seriously interfered with prompt handling into the telegraph oltico.