PEACE SETTLEMENT
GERMAN CONDITIONS FOR SIGNING.
(Router's Telegrams.) PARIS, Dec. 3
Herr voa Lersner, in an interview, said that he was authorised to sign the protocol of ratification if the last sentence were eliminated. This reserves lae right for foreign armed forces to enter Germany after peace is effected, if an infringement of the terms occurs. He admitted that the working of the protocol showed that it was intended to apply to important matters, but he contended that when put to the test, :t might be applied to insignificant points. He said that Germany's suggestion to invite the Hague Convention's decision regarding the Scapa Flow sinkings was based on the argument that Germany was not responsible, and therefore desired an impartial judgment. Germany was prepared to sign the protocol immediately the Allies agreed to that proposal. He contended that the Baltic question was already settled by the complete evacuations of the German troops from Lithuania.
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Waikato Times, Volume 91, Issue 14235, 9 December 1919, Page 6
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