HERR DERNBERG'S VIEWS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 24 May 1919, Page 8

HERR DERNBERG'S VIEWS

NO GOVERNMENT . WOULD SIGN

THE TERMS

HERR HAASE HOPES FOR WORLD

REVOLUTION

BY CABLE—PBESB ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT (Received May 24, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 23. The Daily News' Berlin correspondent interviewed Herr Dernberg, who said: Germany cannot think of conceding the Saar Valley and Silesia, or allowing a foreign committee to interfere with Germany's internal affairs. We insist On a peace based on President Wilson's

"points," and cannot imagine that any Government could be found in Germany which would sign such a treaty. Anyhow, they could not fulfil the obligations. There must c an equitable peace after full and free negotiations, otherwise let the Allies run Germany for themselves and get more out of it if they can. We shall determinedly refuse to sign the treaty as submitted. I say this as "Vice-President of the Cabinet; also that the whole Government is unanimous. The present Government having a majority in the Assembly and being the commanding military authority, is the only possible combination possessing qualifications for signature. Any possible successors will offer little

security. Other correspondents draw attention to Herr Haase's speech in which he protested against a peace of the description of suppression, injustice, and violation, and added: "Those who did not protest at the Brest Litovsk and Bucharest treaties have no right to comf plain." ;■• .:'-'; Herr Haase agreed that Germany must l collapse under the impossible terms, and he hoped that the world revolution, which was surely coming, would result 'n a revision of the terms.