GERMAN VESSELS SURRENDER

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1588, 17 March 1919, Page 5

GERMAN VESSELS SURRENDER

ENEMY SUBMITS TO ALLIED DEMAND

ACQUIESCENCE MADE WITHOUT DISCUSSION PROCEEDINGS OF A CONCISE AND FRIGID CHARACTER By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. (A. & X.Z.) (Bee. Mareli 17, 0 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. Admiral Wemyss has reported that the surrender of the tJerman ships was acquiesced in without discussion. The proceedings were of a most concise and frigid character. DETAILS OF DISPOSITION OF THE VESSELS. (A. & X.Z.) (fi<v. Mareli 17, 11.40 a.m.) PAEIS, March 15. It is now announced that the German merchantmen will be handed over without any ceremony. The vessels lying in neutral ports will be taken over there, and vessels in German ports will proceed to' A-arious ports in Gnat Britain. The surrendered vessels will he almost wholly manned by British, French and American crews. Those winch were used for transport of troops will be entirely manned by British, French and American soldiers. The total tonnage involved is roughly 3,500,000. and will be divided among the Allies, but as Italy possesses all the Austrian vessels she will only receive a small portion of the German tonnage. France will receive big ocean liners to the extent of from 7.1.000 to 100,000 tons, and the balance will be divided between Great Britain and America. The American portion will be used mostly to transport troops, as America is not. interested in cargo carriers. Great Britain will absorb three-fourths of these, and France the remainder. An Allied Economic Commission is being established at Hamburg to arrange freights and cognate subjects and to adjust accounts. For the present freights will be mainly in accordance with British Blue IJook rates.

GERMAN GOVERNMENT ADOPTS TERRORISM.

WHOLESALE EXECUTION OF PRISONERS COMMENCED. (A. & N.Z.) (Bee. "March 17, 9 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. The Berlin correspondent of the ''Sunday Express'* reports that Government troops executed 1500 prisoners in four days, including a number of ■women. The captain entrusted with the executions says it' will require a week to execute the remaining prisoners. MAKING SURE OF TEE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. WILSON ANXIOUS TO HAVE SCHEME IN DRAFT TERMS. (A. & N.Z.) (Bee. March 17, 9 a.m.) LONDON, March 16. Desiring more closely to study the preliminary peace terms, and to consider the inclusion of the League of Nations scheme therein, President Wilson did not attend Saturday's Supreme War Council. Other members did not see the necessity for the inclusion, but President Wilson is anxious to see the scheme safely and definitely through at the earliest moment. Owing to President Wilson's absence the Council postponed the adoption of the final draft of the military, naval, and air terms till Monday afternoon.

An earlier message Stated: —President Wilson lias cabled to Washington: "The plenary conference lias definitely decided that the League of Nations shall be part of the Peace Treaty." THE VOLUNTEER ARMY OF GERMANY. FRENCH FEARS OF DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENTS. (A. & N.Z.) (Eee. March 17, 9 a.m.) PARIS, March 13. French opinion believes that the plan to permit Germany to organise a voluntary army of 100,000 men for 12-year enlistment ■will result within five years in Germany having a veil-officered »rmy of several millions of men. It is pointed out that the long period of enlistment will encourage many young men to take up a military career, and the training will practically be'an officers' course. Large numbers of veterans of the present war are young men able to serve in the future German armies.

BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA IN AMERICA.

POLICE RAID MEETING AND SEIZE LITERATURE. (Beuter.) (Re?. March 17, 5.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 14. The police raided a meeting of members of the Union of Russian Peasants of America, and made over 100 arrests. The literature seized included books printed in Russian advocating the overthrow of the United States Government. LENIN AND TROTZKY PRAISED AS STATESMEN. (Beuter.) (Rec. March 17, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 14. Eugene Debs, in a farewell speech at Cleveland, before starting his 10 years' sentence, approved of the Bolsheviks and described Lenin and Trotzky as the foremost statesmen of the age. Lugene Debs was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for seditious speeches directed against the war activities of the United States. He was grand secretary and treasurer of the United States Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, president of the Amalgamated Railway Union, and chairman of the National Council of Social Democracy. In 1900 he was the candidate of the Social Democratic Party for President, and Socialist Party candidate in 1904. In 1894 he was charged with conspiracy in connection with the bit; strike on the Western railroads, but was acquitted. He was then charged with violation of an injunction and sent to gaol for six months for contempt of court. A CONUNDRUM FOR UNITED STATES COURT. CREDITOR DEMANDS DECISION AS TO FATE OF EX-TSAR. (Renter.) (Rec. March 17, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 14. Mr Bernard Namnburg, a New York lawyer, has applied to the Supreme Court to ascertain whether the ex-Tsar is dead., Naumburg holds a judgment against the ex-Tsar for over £20,000 for the delivery of sugar to Russia on the ex-Tsar's order b'-fore the latter's downfall. The ex-Tsar had £200,000 in deposits in the National City Bank in New York, but the bank will not pay on the judgment till it is proved that the ex-Tsar is dead.

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