ALLIES' FIRM ATTITUDE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 30 May 1919, Page 5

ALLIES' FIRM ATTITUDE.

.ALL ARRANGEMENTS READY IF

GERMANY REFUSES

GERMAN - COUNTER-PIiOPOSALS

WANTS TO CONTROL COLONIES

REFUSES TO GIVE UP SILESIA

-BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION— COPYEIGHT

(Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.)

PARIS, May 28

The Allies will decline discussion beyond the methods of application. Immediately Germany refuses to sign the Allied armies, after seventytwo hours' notice, will advance into Germany. % Arrangements for blockading the coast are complete. BERLIN, May 27. The German counter-proposals are to disarm all battleships and make conditions for the restoration of part of ;her v .mercantile fleet. / She refuses the cession of Upper Silesia, and demands that the occupied territory be evacuated at the end of six months. Germany to .be accorded membership ■ -,of the League of . Nations, . 'and no territorial changes to be made without the population agreeing thereto. Germany offers to pay an indemnity totalling 100,000,000 marks (£5,000,000,----000). COPENHAGEN, May 27. German newspapers contain the text of the counter-proposals. These declare that Germany is willing to reduce her armaments more than the demand. Crermariy proposes that a special com 1 mission of all the belligerents should settle territorial and colonial questions and deal with the League of Nations. | She definitely declines to surrender Upper Silesia or any part of Prussia. | Germany demands that Danzig shall | W a free port and the Vistula ,neutralised, and' offers to assume direc- ' iiion of the German colonies under the Xeague of Nations. She refuses tp ac-, •cept the punishment terms, and is xeady .to give 'an indepnity of one Jhundred milliards in _gold and a fur>ther twenty milliards, before 1926.