A ——
THER FIL WonO
Germans Get The Reply To
Their Counter Proposals
OR FIGHT
MUST SIGN
Enemy Compelied To Do Own Trans
lating, And Forty-eight Hours
Are Added To Original
Five Days.
Paris.— The final reply of the Allied
and Associated powers to the condi-
tions of peace handed to the Germans
at Versailles May 7th was delivered to
the German Delegation Monday and
made public shortly afterward.
The Germads are allowed five days
to accept or refuse the treaty as it
stands. If they accept, peace will be
signed at once;
the armistice will terminate on Satur
day (June 21), and the powers will
take such steps as may be necessary
to enforce their terms,
The principles of the original con-
ditions have been.vigorously upheld,
nodifications in detail
explanations of the effect of
execution are made. The reply is in
two parts—a geenral covering letter
and seriatim discussions of the general
counter-proposais.
The Changes Proposed.
certain
many
The changes include
guarantees of coal from that territory
Frontier rectifications in West Prus
sia.
Ouinission third gone in the
Schleswig plebiscite.
of the
Temporary
Army from
100.000 to 200.000 men.
“They believe that it is not only a
Just settlement of the great war, but
that it provides the basis upon which
the peoples of Europe can live to
gether in friendship and equality.”
The clause adds that the treaty
creates the machinery for the peaceful
adjustment of all international prob
lems by discussion and consent aud
represents a sincere and deliberate at
tempt to establish “that reign of law,
based upon the consent of the gOV-
erned, and sustained by organized
opinion of mankind,” which was the
agreed basis of the peace,
Must Accept Or Reject.
It is added that the treaty in its
present form must be accepted or re
jected,
“The Allied and associated powers,”
it continues, “therefore require a dec
laration from the German delegation
within five days that they are prepared
to sign the treaty as now amended. If
they declare within the period that
they are prepared to sign the treaty
as it stands, arrangements will be
made for the immediate signature of
the peace at Versailles. In defanlt of
such a declaration, this communica
tion constitutes the notification pro
of the 16th of February, 1819,
prolonging the armistice signgd
the 11th of November, 1918, and again
prolonged by the agreement of the
13th of December, 1918, and 16th
of January, 1919, and the said armis
tice will then terminate
on
the
and the
ke such
steps as think needful to force
their terms.”
they
TWO MORE STATES RATIFY.
Suffrage Amendment.
Columbus, Ohio. The Ohio Gen
Assembly ratified the Federal
suffrage
wWOoms
amendment and immediate!
thereafter passed a b
Ohio women the right t« for Pres
} YOi¢
sl - G94 . 3
electors 1820 should ths
amendment
mit within a month of signature
of those
laws an
Offer
coma ion on
ceive suggest
obligation
Certain detailed modifi
ions
finance
terways
of the
sion.
Assurance
econ
clauses,
pre
nosed
i
membersh
of ip in the
League of Nations in the early future
if Germany fulfills her obligations
With treaty, con :
interlineations in red ink,
changes had been made in it,
covering by Pre
Clemenceau, the Peace
Conference.
The covering note cast
gates Germany for protesting against
the treaty on the ground that the
revised
tho
Lil€
note, written
president of
severely
mistice M. Clemenceau says
she occupies today in the estimation
of the world for being responsible for
& war which was “the greatest crime
against humanity and the freedom of
the people that any nation, calling it
eelf civilized, bas ever consciously
omitted.
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Clemenceau’s Letter,
The covering letter from M. Clem
enceau in part follows:
“The Allied and associated powers,
have given the most earnest considera
delegates on the draft treaty of peace
The reply protests against the peace
on the ground that it conflicts with the
terms upon which the armistice of No
vember 11, 1918, was signed, and that
it is a peace of violence, and not a
peace of justice. The protest of the
German delegation shows that they
fail to understand the position In
which Germany stands today. They
seem to think that Germany has only
to make sacrifices In order to attain
peace,” as if this were but the end of
some mere struggle for territory and
power, The Allied and associated
powers, therefore, feel it necessary to
begin their reply by a clear statement
of the judgment of the world, which
has been forged by practically the
whole of civilized mankind.
“In the view of the Allied and as
sociated powers, the war which began
on August 1, 1914, was the greatest
crime against humanity and freedom
of the people that any nation calling
Itself civilized has ever consciously
commitied. For many years the rul
ers of Germany, true to the Prussian
tradition, strove for a position of dom.
inance in Europe. They were not sat.
isfled with that growing prosperity
and influence to which Germany was
entitied, and which all other nations
were willing to accord her; they re
quired that they should be able to
dictate and tyrannize over a subservi
ent Europe, as they dictated and
tyrannized over a subservient Ger
many,
Letter Last Word,
Clause 8 says: “In conclusion, the
Allied and assoclated powers must
make it clear that this letter and the
memorandum attached constitute their
last word. They have examined that
German observation and counter.pro-
posals with earnest attention and care,
They have, In consequence, made im
portant modifications in the draft
treaty. But, In its prineipics, they
stand by Ki. '
Kansas Also In Line.
Kan The Kans
U. 8.
From Gunboat.
government
1 4 new pna
to the
Outbreaks have occurs
the capital,
has entere
iispatches
and the
seri
American forces on th Cas
yw at Port Limon, are held
can be landed at
ice, it
8 md
was said. The com
instructed not to
instructions from Washington
act without specific
WOULD DISMEMEER TURKEY
On Question,
Washington. —8enator King, Utah
abolishment of the Turkish Govern
ment and the placing of territory now
mandatories. The resolution’s pre
said réports from Paris Indi
cated that the Peace Conference "econ
templates that the Turkish Govern
ent shall be perpetuated, and added
that the Turkish Government has
ALLIED TROOPS ADVANCE.
Move Against Hungarian Reds To Ald
Czechs.
Berlin. On the expiration of the
uitimatum to the Hungarian Soviet
Government, the Entente immediately
began military action according to the
Neue Freie Presse of Vienna. and
French troops have arrived at Press
burg, 234 miles east-southeast of
Vienna. The French Government. the
newspaper adds, emphatically refuses
to negotiate with the representatives
of Bolshevism in Hungary.
TO BUILD FRENCH SHIPS HERE.
Hurley Approves Order For Construc
tion Of 500,000 Tons.
Parig. Orders placed In American
shipyards for a half million tons of
merchant ships to go under the French
flag have been approved by Edward
N. Hurley, chairman of the United
States Shipping Board, and he has in
formed M. Casenave, French Charge
d'Affaires at Washington, to this ef
fect,
SN AS SN.
KRONSTADT NEAR FALL.
White Flag Said To Have Been Raised
Over Naval Base,
Helsingfors.—The fall of Kronstadt,
the naval base of Petrograd, is immi
nent, according to reports received by
naval circles here from Revel, the cap
ital of Ethonia. The reports say that
# white flag has been hoisted aver the
fortress several times by itt Bolshe
vik defenders.
PENNSYLVANIA |
STATE ITENS |
5 Tens
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Pottstown.—~A landscape artis{ from
Pennsylvania Btiate College who view-
ed the grounds estimated that it will
cost $02,000 to transform Gabel's Mea-
dows, this , into a
sallors’ memorial park, and $10,000 an-
nually to maintain it,
Reading Esther Clouser, a young
girl riding tandem on a motorcycle
driven by Francis Fisher and John B,
Sherker, a store shipping clerk, were
badly injured in a
here. girl Is
sustained a fracture of the knee when
place soldiers’
driving accident
The believed to have
the motorcycle struck a motortruck at
a turn In a suburban read,
Reading of many com-
plaints about the smoke nuisance from
trains passing through the
Reading Rail issued
ansiructions
Because
the city,
pjdiny
to all firemen to kes Pp
“output” 3
passing
Way has
Siok on sii #n
¥
Mor.
five
Lock
this of
the
normal
being caught
Hhe
Rireamns ie :
Most of the
on flies
front aiken
wy good are
made,
Robesonia
A!
sis higve tigitde their
sevenieen
Bppenr
of
Yew
ance Ir winnie an the
Routh
slow ®
the borough
. ¥X
untain near
Moyer
twig
his the twig
locust she
Hazleton
under the
of having re
fellow
he didn’t care anything
or France or any other country exo pt
the United the
grand jury at
Williamsport. He he
cause it was contended by
in orchard,
‘lis attached to
Alfred
eEponage act
Leinfort, arrested
on the charge
Ashmore to
the war that
about England
marked at
wWarkmen during
States, war freed by
court
acquitted
of the distriet
was
that he bad committed no crime
against American
Reading Inquiries are being made
here about the census supervisorship
next year for the Berks Lehigh census
district. The position will pay $1800
for seven months’ work, Although the
work is not done until next year, the
appointment may be made in July of
this year.
Chambersburg —8truck in the tem
ple by a piece of metal which chipped
from a steel bar which he was using,
David Hoover, of this place, employed
by the Cumberland valley district of
the Pennsylvania rallroad as a track
repairman, almost lost his life when
an artery in his head was severed by
the chip. After receiving first ald,
Hoover was rushed to the hospital.
He will recover,
Hazleton. Strawberry week here
found housewives on strike against
canning the fruit at a price of forty.
five to forty-eight cents a box,
Mt. Carmel—Picking at a daulin
cap that he found in the street, Peter
Andrewlovich had both hands blown
off. He was taken to the State hos
pital,
Worcester Howard M, Weber, of
this place, has a rye stalk seven and
a half feet long. .
Bloomsburg Coming In contact
with a live wire while working on a
high pole, Henry F. Geist, a lineman,
was electrocuted here,
Heys
the government,
Lehigh Gap--An nccldental death
certificate has been Issued by Coroner
i
tie R, McFarland,
burned to death in
home,
was found
cellar of her
who
the
SBunbury.--Publle school teachers
here, who are among the poorest paid
in the larger boroughs of
the state, petitioned for an increase
in salary. They point obit that thels
nol reach of
raflroad clerks,
Connellsville, Arrested
charge of robbing a
Rogers, of this city, was released fron
custody when she pald a fine and re
turned the $00 which had lifted
She failed to explain how thi
imstructors
incomes do sil
workers
those
und
thie
Siella
on
soldier,
she
she got
money,
Chambersburg—During the month
of May, F. A. Forman, of
inspector of welghts and measures {for
this piace,
Franklin county, Inspected 741 welg
and of
that he
eh
Ineasures various Kinds,
found only
Forty of
correct
number,
incorrect the sis
found were adjusted
twenty-seven
Huzieton
John
condetinned
Clrged with
Skebs, &
when the
returned
eran, former
the I's
John Butchko and Wi
viteh, of West Hazleio:
trial under
Moody, who
r
stn d stripes
1 i Ie
£1000
¥ .
Joseph
f
cancies on the
regular monthly
Walter W Begtty
Warren.
WHR severe]
1
Wey
this year
sent irom the ate |
thin the Iz yeral i
were
eries wi
and have viaced
mans creek in the
County, near the state go;
Shortly
Wes ers
|
over
Ktutes
fawn
Unit |
senate votedl on suffrage
women employes of the El
gar here,
number, voted In
iar elections
ch
hundred in
se nlohy
factory several
advance of the
They cast
rego.
their halloty
referendum changing the
working hours, deciding to day
light by starting work at six A M
cach day during the summer and qui
at a shop
SAY
§
ting earlier each afternoons
Birdsboro,— The
this borough hag increased
tax rate for thie year from 14% mills
to 18 mills, an increase of 31% mills
The board will have to pay £28500 mon
In teachers’ salaries in the com ng
term
Weiseport
schoo bosrd o
the schoo
While ©. H. Strohl, a
old child, belonging to a distant neigh
bor, who had wandered away from its
mother while she was doling work up
siairs,
Wayneshoro.-
United States
Wayneshoro
In the two years the
war In the war the
district, which includes
subweribed more
than $T.500.000 to ald the government
in its fight against the Germans, This
amount 18 more than was sabscribed
by some entire counties in the state of
Pennsylvania. There were 11.020 sub
srribers,
Mechanicsburg~In n battle with a
monster trout while fishing near here,
David A. Ulrich had hig steel fishing
rod snapped. He suceeded, however,
in landing the giant fish, which weigh.
ed 4% pounds and measured twenty
three inches,
Weatherly ~The bourd of directors
of the middie coal fleld poor district!
have reduced the ax rate from 3% to
3 mills,
Mount Cargoel Caught under a fab
of top conl at Richards colliery, Mich
ael Kozma, of Exchange, was killed
A widow and three children survive
Mahanoy City Caught in a prema
furely exploding blast at Rock Moun
tain eolliery, Stiney Webnck was kill
ed and his helper, Anthony Wider, was
badly hort,
Uniontown. ~~Carpenters here won n
strike for wage advance from $6 (c
“
Jean Dubue
the Sait Lake club of
the Boston Red ing
heights, and If Mons, Jean
good. United fandom
the Pacific
Nox §
ntinnes
n't get by
“1 pot by all right
Southern and Ameri
ation.” replied Kerr
“That may be so but you w=
never get by gue
you don't
retorted Gleasor
te show Kerr how
trick.
siaop i
he
fo turn
and
ietics to Play Ball in New
Jersey Village.
It's “back to the farm” again for
in the American
league last season, with which club
be aniso starred as an outfielder in
those days when Connie® Mack was
pulling down pennants,
Having now secured his release from
the Athletics, “Rube” Intends to take
np his residence at Quinton, a rural
village In Salem County, N. J, where
he helped to organize 8 nine that two
years ago would wallop nearly all ri-
vals In seven townships,
Manager Gleason Mas Mis Men Batting
Well and Running Bases Better
Than Usual,
Manager Gleason of the White Sox
not only appears to have his team
batting in fine shape, but they are
showing more speed on the bases than
has usually been the case with Chi.
cago American teams of past years,
Stealing seven bases In one gnine je
something new for the White Sox, es.
pecially with Alnsmaith doing the cateh
an—
T LAKE BY J. M'GRAW -
BB
he
rey
John
been relen
McGraw from
sed by
to the big league
make
ti
he Giants staff,
ued hy
to which he
¢ fight to
at his
3 oY |
had
come Hauck
r¢ he's sure to
"DIAMOND
_~ NOTES -
4 ¥ 8 oF i
game
HIPs from Ping Bodie
il . at
{| Red Faber will have his®hanner sea-
son in the American league if he keeps
y his work of recent combats,
- -. od
Wallace, the youngster who was fry-
ng for an Infield job with the Phillies,
has been released to Hartford of the
| Josh Devore is surpriging the fans
{ by his work for the Indians. Devore
| has been fielding in fine fashion snd
| is hitting the ball hard.
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H
from
an
Lawson, recently dis-
the Canadian army, Is
i planning “outlaw” league, to be
! known as the Allled league.
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{| The New York Ysnkees charged
{Carl Mays was using an emery ball,
but now having beaten him they may
: conclude they were mistaken.
i . + »
{i Manager Lee Fohl of Cleveland is
| well pleased at what George Ulle has
| shown him and declares the young
seml-pro is going to be.a real star.
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George
{ charged
Joe Wilhoit, a star in the Coast
{ league three or four years ago and for
{a moment looking lik~ a star In the
| big show, seems to have fizzled out
with Seattle,
- * *
Hugo Bezdek has benched South.
worth and played Lee in right field
The former, who hit for 341 In 64
| games last season, has been doing un-
der 100 this season,
* * *.
Shortstop Jimmy Cooney, who did
{ mot join the Detroit Tigers and who
{thus is technically a member of the
| Boston Red Sox, is finally out of the
army and no piace to go.
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A left-hander can’t hit a soathpaw,
Not at all, Casey Stengel only pot four
hitg, one of them a triple, against the
mightiest boy in the National loop,
Jim Vaughn, the other day.
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An allstar association football team
will go to Sweden this summer ander
| direction of Secretary Thomas Cahill
of the United States Football pssocin.
tion, the governing council of the
sport.
"0
Manager Miller Huggins assigned
Duffy Lewis to center field to start
the season, but sooh changed his mind
und switched Duffy to left. Ping Bo
die went to center. » Ping will keep
on going if he doesn’t watch out
. "a
George Runge, infielder, who was re
leceed by Clarence Rowland of the
Brewers, has signed to play with the
Nash Motor company team of Keno
sha, Artie Pues, Art Kores and Rip
Hogerman, former A. A. players, are
liso with the club,