THE PEACE TREATY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16822, 30 May 1919, Page 7

THE PEACE TREATY.

German protest's, in Berlin and bavaria. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. COPENHAGEN, May 17. Forty thousand Berlin demonstrates protested against Germany's disarmament, and expressed confidence in the Government, which should only accept a -peace based on right. Herr Hoffmann, addressing the Bavarian Assembly at Hamberg, violently protested against the terms, and rejected the idea, of seeking a separate Bavarian peace. GERMAN COUNTER-PROPOSALS. BERLIN, May 27. The German counter-proposals arc: To disarm all battleships, to make conditions for the restoration of part tft her mercantile fleet, she refuses the cession of upper Silesia, decupled territory to 'ae evacuated a.t the eM of six months. Germany to he accdrdett membership of the League of Nations, ho territorial changes without thp population agreeing thereto. Germany offers to f.ar an indemnity totalling 100,000 million marks. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THEM. Received 9.40 p.m., Mav 29t'«. COPENHAGEN,'Mat 27. German newspapers contain_tb.e text of the cotihter-proposals-. These clare that Germany is willing to Te-f duce armaments- more than the Treaty demands. Germany proposes a special commission of all to settle territorial and colonial questions arid to deal with the League* of Nations. Germany definitely declines try surrender twiner Silesia or anv part of Prussia. Germany demands that P.infzig K e a free pott, nnd the Vistula neutralised. She offers to assume direction of the German _ colonies under tho League of Nations. She refuses to accept the punis'-meni terms, bat is readv to sive an ihd°mnitv of a hundred" milliard marks iti (role!, and a further twenty milliards before 1926.

PARIS. Mav 28. The 1 Allies will decline riiscii's'on beyond the methods of application.