HUNS' WHINING PLEA.

Marlborough Express, Volume LII, Issue 285, 20 November 1918, Page 5

HUNS' WHINING PLEA.

APPEAL FOR BEHER CONDITIONS. FREEDOM OFRHIMEMTERWAY. ALLIES'MARCH TaWARDS CER- \ MANERONTIER. SCHLESWIG'S BESTUIY TO GO TO THEVOT€. fiERMAN WAR MATERIAL GOING \ GHEA& i THEWIIUUMG <HUN. FLEA FOR/ BETTER. UP ANtD DOWN AND ACROSS THE •;. RHINE, SACRED SOIL OF T3BEB FATHER- " ' ..' , LANI>. ' . [Press Assooiachon.] (Admiralty per Witless Press.) (Received No*:;*2(!>, I*3o a.m.) LON&GtK, Not. 19. The German. Go«ernnwnV 4 .J^ as despatched a message to the .Allies and America-protesting .that the coiitditions •of thtf amiistico seriously menace the economic conditions on ±be left bank of the Rhine and its relation with. Carman territory on the j-ieht/ bank!; declaring that if the conditions are not'«alUswatcd existence will become: impossible' .and Bolshevism will be inevitable. ,'.'«' In order to obviate .this G-ermany request? the following-: JNoraal intercourse on the left bftnk *f the Rhine; completely normal economic communications betAveen the left. ;bank and the i remainder of Germany and foreign .countries, even during military exculpation ; German owners to exploit as i heretofore the coal and potash, and t .. ore mines on the left -bank of the V Rhine within., the! old^Jtemtitory of the Empire, with pe>rmissic«i for transportation up and down and across the • ithine to the right. bank; .and the general free, use -of the Rhine for ,' transport within, the bid boundary of 11 i'vtho Cferman Empire. Frew navigation -via ißotteadaim and the coast for provisioning Germany \ via the North Sea an& 3iMic coasts, wifth. coal, potash, and food supplies; continuation of industnries «>ri the left -bank of the. Rhine for the use of the remainder of Germany; free railway, traffic in occupied territory:; the furnishing of electric povvor from the left to the right' bank-of the Rhine; dis<jharg€d mm liable for uairlitiary service on the left bank of theTlhine not •io be made pi'isonors"of war, even if uniformed;- all civil" and military organisations on the lefft- bank of the Rhino to be allowed--; to- continue % to work; no requisitioning'- in'occupied terr itiories. unless absolutely raecessary for the maintenanoo of the troops of occupation *