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Summary of Peace Terms
Offered to the Germans
Longest Treaty Ever Drawn
Creates Many Interna?
tional Boards; Is Work
of a Thousand Experts
Continued from preceding page
drafts and designs for this part of
the river.
Belgium is to be permitted to
build a deep draft Rhine-Mouse
canal, if she so desires, within
twenty-five years, in which case
Germany must construct the part
within her territory on plans drawn
by Belgium; similarly, the inter?
ested Allied governments may con?
struct a Rhine-Meuse canal, both, if
constructed, to come under the com?
petent international commission.
Germany may not object if the Cen?
tral Rhine commission desires to
extend its jurisdiction over the
lower Moselle, the upper Rhine, or
lateral canals.
Germany must cede to the Allied
and associated governments certain
tugs, vessels, and facilities for navi?
gation on all these rivers, the spe?
cific details to be established by an
arbiter named by the United States.
Decision will be based on the legiti?
mate needs of the parties concerned :
and on the shipping traffic during ;
the five years before the war. The
value will be included in the regu?
lar reparation account. In the case
of the Rhine shares in the German
navigation companies and property
glich as wharves and warehouses
held by Germany in Rotterdam at :
the outbreak of the war must be
handed over.
Railways
Germany, in addition to most I
favored nation treatment on her,
railways, agrees to cooperate in the
establishment of through ticket ser?
vices for passengers and baggage;
to insure communication by rail be?
tween the Allied, associated and
other states; to allow the construc?
tion or improvement within twenty
five years of such lines as necessary ;
and to conform her rolling stock
to enable its incorporation in trains
of the Allied or associated powers.
She also agrees to accept the de?
nunciation of the St. Gothard con?
vention if Switzerland and Italy so
request, and temporarily to execute
instructions as to the transport of
troops and supplies and the estab?
lishment of postal and telegraphic
service, as provided.
Czecho-Slovaliiu
To assure Czecho-Slovakia access
to the sea, special rights are given
her both north and south. Toward
the Adriatic she is permitted to run
her own through trains to Fiume and '
Trieste. To the north, Germany is
to lease her for ninety-nine years
spaces in Hamburg and Stettin, the
details to be worked out by a com?
mission of three representing
Czecho-Slovakia, Germany and
Great Britain.
The Kiel Canal
The Kiel Canal is to remain free
and open to war and merchant
ships of all nations at peace with
Germany, subject, goods and ships
of all states are to be treated on
terms of absolute equality, and no
taxes to be imposed beyond those
necessary for upkeep and improve?
ment, for which Germany is to be
responsible. In case of violation of,
or disagreement as, to those pro- ?
visions, any state may appeal to the
league of nations, and may demand ,
the appointment of an international
commission. For preliminary hear?
ing of complaints, Germany shall
establish a local authority at Kiel.
Section XIII
International
Labor Organization
Annual Conference
Members of the league of na?
tions agree to establish a perman?
ent organization to promote inter?
national adjustment of labor con?
ditions to consist of an annual in?
ternational labor conference and
an international labor office. '
The former is composed of four
representatives of each state, two
from the government and one each
from the employer? and the em?
ployed ; r-ach of them may vote
individually. It will be a deliber?
ative legislation body, its measures .
taking the form of draft conven?
tion? or recommendations for legis?
lation, which, if passed by two
third? vote, must be submitted to
the lawmaking authority in every
?t?te participating. Each govern?
ment may either enact the terms
into law, approve the principle, but
modify them to local needs, leave
the actual leijfslation in case of
a Federal state to lornl Legisla?
tures, or reject the convention al?
together without further obliga?
tion.
The international labor office [|
established at the wat of the league
of nations as part of its organiza
I
i tion. It is to collect and distribute
information on labor throughout
! the world and prepare agenda fot
the conference. It will publish a
; periodical in French and English,
and possibly other languages. Each
'. state agrees to make to it for pre?
sentation to the conference an an
| nual report of measures taken to
execute accepted conventions. The
governing body consists of twenty
four members, twelve representing
; the governments, six the employ
] ers and six the employe-, to serve
for three years. On complaint that
? any government has failed to carry
! out a convention to which it is a
[ party, the governing body may
make inquiries directly to that gov?
ernment, and in case the reply is
unsatisfactory, may publish the
complaint with comment. A com?
plaint by one government against
; another may be referred by the gov?
erning body to a commission of in?
quiry nominated by the secretary
general of the league. If the com?
mission report fails to bring sat?
isfactory action, the matter may
be taken to a permanent court of
: international justice for final de
cisi?n. The chief reliance for se?
curing enforcement of the law will
be publicity, with a possibility of!
economic action in the background.
The first meeting of the confer?
ence will take place in October,
1919, at Washington, to discuss the
eight-hour day or forty-eight-hour
week, prevention of unemployment,
extension and application of the in?
ternational conventions adopted at j
Berne in 1906 prohibiting night;
work for women and the use of
white phosphorus in the manufac?
ture of matches, and employment
of women and children at night or
in unhealthy work, of women be?
fore and after childbirth, including
maternity benefit, and of children !
as regards minimum ago.
I
Labor Clauses
Nine principles of labor condi- ,
tions are to be recognized, on the !
ground that "the wellbeing, physi?
cal and moral, of the industrial !
wageearners is of supreme interna- ?
t'ional importance." With excep- |
tions necessitated by differences of
climate, habits and economic de?
velopment, they include: The guid?
ing principle that labor should not
be regarded merely as a commodity ;
or article of commerce; right of as- ;
sociation of employers and em- ''
ployes; a wage adequate to main- j
tain a reasonable standard of life ; ?
the eight-hour day or forty-eight
hour week; a weekly rest of at least '.
twenty-four hours, which should in- |
elude Sunday wherever practicable; j
abolition of child labor and assur- |
anee of the continuation of the edu- j
cation and proper physical develop- j
ment of children; equal pay for \
equal work as between men and
women; equitable treatment of all j
workers lawfully resident in any
country, including foreigners; and
a system of inspection in which wo?
men should take part.
Section XIV
Guarantees
Asked of Foe
Western Europe
As a guarantee for the execu?
tion of the treaty German terri?
tory to the west of the Rhine, to?
gether with the bridgeheads, will
be occupied by Allied and associ?
ated troops for fifteen years. If
the conditions are faithfully car?
ried out by Germany certain dis?
tricts, including the bridgehead of
Cologne, will be evacuated at the
expiration of five years; certain
other districts, including the bridge?
head of Coblenz, and the terri?
tories nearest the Belgian frontier,
will be evacuated after ten years,
and the remainder, including the
bridgehead of Mainz, will be evac?
uated after fifteen years. In case
the inter-Allied Reparation Commis?
sion finds that Germany has failed
to observe the whole or part of her
obligations, either during the oc?
cupation or after the fifteen years
have expired, the whole or part of
the areas specified will be reoccu
pied immediately. If before the ex?
piration of the fifteen years Ger?
many complies with all the. treaty
undertakings, the occupying forces
will be withdrawn immediately.
Eastern Europe
All German troops at present ir
territories to the cast of the neu
frontier shall return as soon as the
Allied and associated government!
deem wise. They are to abstair
from all requisitions and are in ni
way to interfere with measures fo
national defence taken by the gov
ernment concerned. All question
regarding occupation not provide?
for by the treaty will be regulate
by a subsequent convention or con
ventions, which will have simila
force and effect.
Section XV
Final Clauses
of the Treaty
Germany agrees to recognize tl
full validity of the treaties of pea?
and additional conventions to 1
concluded by the allied and ass
ciated powers with the powers alii?
with Germany, to agree to the d
cisions to be taken as to the ten
tories of Austria-Hungary, Bi
garia and Turkey, and to recogni
the new states in the frontier's to
fixed for them.
Germany agrees not to put fc
ward any pecuniary claims agair
any allied or associated pow
signing the present treaty based
events previous to the coming in
force of the treaty.
Germany accepts all decress as
German ships and goods made
any allied or associated prize cou
The Allies reserve the rifi-ht to ?
amine all decisions of German pr
! courts. The present treaty, of which ?
the French and British texts are !
both authentic, shall be ratified and !
the depositions of ratifications made
in Paris as soon as possible. The
treaty is to become effective in all
respects for each power on the date
of deposition of its ratification.
-.?
6Deadly' Work Done
By British Papers
Early in the War
New Vor/.: Tribun? i
Foreign Press Bureau j
The press bureau of the British gov- ?
eminent, popularly called the censor's
office, was recently closed in London. ?
The metropolitan correspondent of i
"The Manchester Guardian" writes on
this cheerful occasion to his paper:
"It is difficult now to remember the j
many phases through which the bureau ;
has passed. Lord Buckmaster, then
Solicitor General, instituted it, so far i
as 1 remember, to prevent the news- j
papers from getting into trouble and j
editors from being sent to prison. The
bureau did not censor in the exact ;
sense of the term, for even if matter :
was submitted and passed by the bu- i
rcau it did not relieve the newspapers
from responsibility if the matter was
held afterward to transgress certain
acts. The press bureau functions were
purely advise ry.
'The newspapers at the beginning'
? :i<? some dcndly work. A London even- ?
ing paper destroyed the whole of the i
>ii tlee' iind ;. few of our own '
warships. Humors of German land- j
:':?:.. too. were published. All this in-j
creased the tension on the public mind, j
.Th,-, came the detailed story of the I
??ritisii army's retreat and the sug?
gestion that all was lost. To every- j
body's astonishment the newspaper in
question was able to show that its j
report had been submitted to the ?
press bureau, then presided over by I
the present Lord Chancellor, who had j
passed and initialled the proof.
"Changes in the bureau took place,
and after the newspapers had demanded ;
that men with practical experience in j
Food Scarcity in India
is Showing Some Relief ;
New York Tribune !
Foreign Press Bureau
Food scarcity in India is described ?
in a correspondence from Simla to !
"The Manchester Guardian." We read:
"Cron reports for the week ending !
March 22 show that standing crops are j
fair to good. Harvesting operations j
a?c proceeding in many provinces. |
"Scarcity involving relict measures, ?
is reported in seven provinces. The ?
condition of the people in tho affected
areas generally is good, the famine ?
trust fund and private charity giving',
much assistance
"In Madras relier measures are ade?
quate and the distribution of cloth
provided by private subscription con?
tinues. Suspensions and remissions of
revenue have been granted. In tho
central provinces and central India
there is no sign of emaciation. In the
united provinces the farkets are well
supplied, but prices are stationary,
with a tendency to fall. Distress con?
tinues in two districts of Bengal."
Copyright, Unrt ?TW no ri ?_ t'ndftrwood
In thia historic building the German delegates yesterday received the peace terms agreed upon by the Peace
Cnnforenra
Chronology of Peace Parley
Nov. 11?Thirty days' armistice
signed, ending World War.
Nov. 12?Germany asks President
Wilson to arrange for opening
of pea.e negotiations immediate?
ly.
Nov. 15?Allies begin arrangements
for parley.
Nov. IS?President Wilson announ?
ces he will attend peace confer?
ence.
Dec. 2?Representatives of Allies
begin discussions of matters pre?
liminary to peace congress. Su?
preme Council meets in Taris.
Dec. 4?President Wilson and party
sail for France.
Dec. ? -Opening of peace congress
set for first week in January.
Dec. 14?President Wilson arrives
in Paris for peace parley. Armis?
tice prolonged one month?until
Jan.' 17?and amendments pro?
vide for further extensions until
conclusion of peace preliminaries.
Dec. 26?President Wilson arrives
in London for conferences with
British high officials on peace
programme.
Dec. 28?President Wilson and j
Allied representatives decide what
nations are to take part in par?
ley.
Jan. 1---President Wilson leaves
Paris for Rome, to confer with
Italian King and Premier Orlando.
Jan. 12?Informal exchanges of
views at Paris on peace questions
by Supreme Inter-Allied Council.
Programme for peace conference
discussed. Preliminary peace
meeting opens at Paris. First
formal meeting of Supreme Inter
Allied Council.
Jan. 13?Supreme War Council
draws new armistice terms.
Jan. 18?Peace congress opens in
the Salle de la Paix, Paris. Clem?
enceau is made chairman.
Jan. 20?Supreme Inter-Allied Coun?
cil considers Russian situation.
Jan. 22?Allies adopt President Wil?
son's plan for parley with all
warring factions on Feb. 15.
Jan. 23?Four of the five great Al?
lied powern agree on world league
plan. Russians reject parlay offer.
Jan. 25?League of nations project
unanimously adopted.
Jan. 26?Smaller nations accept par?
ley plan.
Jan. 30?Allies accept in principle
the American colonial plan for
league of nations to exercise
supervision over German colonies.
?;?!D. 1?Allies vote to split u\
Turkish Empire.
Feb. 6?League draft tentatively
accepted. Date of conference ae
f erred from Feb. 15 to permit
all delegates to reach Paris.
Feb. 8?American plan for economic
council accepted by the Allies.
Feb. 12?New armistice terms fixed,
extending the truce indefinitely
and making the German army
impotent.
Feb. 15?President Wilson sails
from Brest to the united States.
Feb. 16?Italy rejects plan for medi?
ation with the Slavs in Dalmatia.
Fob. 21?Allies decide to make Ger?
many pay to the limit of her
ability.
March 4?President Wilson again
sails for France.
March 7?Armistice parley broken
off when Germany refuses to
give up ships.
March 8?Germany decides to give
up ships on promise of food and
agrees to resume conference.
Teuton army cut to 150,000.
March 11?Gerr-an navy personnel
cut to 15,000 by Allies. Draft of
peace treaty is completed.
March 14?President Wilson reaches
Paris.
March 15?Final draft of peace
treaty laid before Mr. Wilson. Ho
announces it will include league
of nations covenant.
March 17?Italians threaten to
leave peace table and adhere only
to the Pact of London.
March 18?Mr. Wilson delays ?peace
treaty by insisting on inclusion
of league of nations.
March 19?President Wilson agrees
to revisions in league draft to
insure its acceptance by the
United States Senate.
March 20-?Japan raises race issue.
March 21?-Italy demands she be
given Fiumc, threatening to quit
conference.
March 22?Canada balks at taking
part in Europe's quarrels. Paris
withholds decision on Monroe
Doctrine.
March 25?Wilson and Clemenceau
at outs on peace points.
March 26?Italy lifts Adriatic
blockade.
March 27?New league draft com?
pleted without Monroe Doctrine.
Italy is asked to lift food block?
ade.
March 29?President Wilson re?
fuses to join France in a war on
the Russian Bolsheviki. Monroe
Doctrine as a part of the league
of nations covenant is put up to
the "Big Four."
April 2?Japan asks full equality in
the league of nations.
April 4 -King Albert ask3 $2,000,
000,000 advance and Lemberg pen?
insula.
April ? Deadlock in "Big Four"
council broken, Allies agreeing
on policy of reparation.
April 9?Allies decide on first repar?
ation terms to be levied against
Germany.
April 10 Monroe Doctrine clause
inserted in league covenant.
April 12?Revised league covenant
made public.
April 16?Plan to feed Russia
adopted.
April 19?"Big Four" deadlocked
over Italy.
April 21?Supreme Council take3 up
Shantung issue.
April 2c!?Italy not to be given
Fiume, President Wilson says.
April 24?Premier Orlando of Italy
leaves the peace conference for
Rome, rebuking President Wilson
for his attitude toward Italy.
Italian King supports Orlando.
April 28?New league covenant
unanimously adopted. Kaiser to be
tried by the five great powers.
Japanese delegates drop race
issue clause.
April 29?Italian Chamber of Depu?
ties votes confidence in Premier
Orlando for his stand. Compro?
mise offered Japan on Kiao-chau.
April 30?President Wilson agrees
to Japanese demands. Japan to
police part of China, under the
grant.
May 1?German envoys arrive at
Paris and present credentials.
May 3?U. S. refuses to enter into
German loan of five billions.
May 4?"Big Four" invite Italians
back to conference.
May 5?Germans threaten to quit
parley before it is started, be?
cause of the delay. Allies agree
that Italy shall have Fiume after
two years of self-rule by that
city.
May 6?Foch aBks France to reject
peace treaty as finally drafted.
Allies to lift trade blacklist pend?
ing negotiations with the Ger?
mans. Final meeting of "Big
Three" before handing over draft
of the treaty is held.
May 7 Peace treaty is read to Ger?
mans.
German Steamer Imperator
Delivered to Americana
BREST, May 7.- The giant German
steamer Imperator completed her flrat
! voyage from a German port when she
i arrived here Monday to be turned over
; to the American navy for use in the
transport of troops to the United States.
I On her arrival here the 62,000 - ton
steamer was In charge of a German
crew of seventy-three officers and 450
[men.
Civilian Piiotg Must Get Air
Licenses From l?. S. Board
WASHINGTON, May 7.-Civilian
pilots must, procure licenses from the
joint army and navy board of aero?
nautic cognizance before they will be
permitted to operate airplanes, sea?
planes or balloons, under the pro?
visions of the Presidential proclama?
tion issued February 2fl, the board an?
nounced to-day in a ?rarning to unli?
censed pilots.
Anniversary of
Lusitania Is
Observed Here
Impressive Service Held in
Cathedral of St. John
N the Divine in Commemor?
ation of First U. S. Heroes
Coincidence Is Remarked
Germans Get Treaty 4 Years
to a Day After Sinking
Liner With Torpedo
Coincident with the formal presen?
tation of the peace terms to Germany
was the service held in the Cathedral
of St. John the Divine yesterday after?
noon in solemn commemoration of the
Americans who lost their lives when
the Lusitania was sunk four years ago
by a German torpedo.
There were nearly a thousand per?
sons in the cathedral, including a num?
ber of the survivors and relatives of
those who wpre drowned. The service
was arranged under the auspices of
thirty of the patriotic societies of New
York. ?
Ceremony Impressive
The ceremonial opened with the sing?
ing of "Onward, Christian Soldiers,"
while the flags of the Allies were car?
ried through the nave and into the
chancel by a detail of six soldiers from
Governors Island.
The opening prayer was read by Dean
Howard C. Bobbins, of the Cathedral
' of St. John the Divine; the first lesson
: was read by the Bev. Anson P. Atter
, bury, of the West-Park Presbyterian
Church; the second lesson by Canon
George F. Nelson, of the cathedral,
and the closing prayers were delivered
: by the Bight Bev. Charles S. Burch,
! Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of
i New York. In the procession of church
| dignitaries wore the Bev. William Aus
, tin Smith, the Bev. Dr. William N.
j Hubbell, Babbi Joseph Silverman and
, the Rev. E. Briggs Nash. There was
! a solemn tolling for the dead after the
j Lord's Prayer was repeated.
"Remembrance, Not Hatred"
?
In welcoming the patriotic societies
! of New York to the cathedral Dean
! Robbins said:
"If rightly understood the words
'Lest We Forget' express the spirit of
this service. They are not words of
vengeance, vindication or hatred. They
are words of solemn remembrance.
They bring to mind the two things
for which the Lusitania stands as an
' everlasting symbol.
"First, the moral entry of this coun?
try into the war. Secondly, the Lusi?
tania has become a real symbol of the
| great weight of suffering endured by
| innocent women and children in Europe,
j through which our redemption was
| finally purchased.
"It is a notable and moving coinci?
dence that the day on which the terms
! of peace are made public, the sinking
Peace Scene of 1871 Revived, but
With German Arrogance Missing
"This, gentlemen, is the death of
the beast."
Such was the jeer of Bismarck in the
? little Hotel Trianon at Versailles
January 28, 1871, when he picked up
| his gold pen to complete the humilia
| tion of France with the signing of the
i armistice that ended the Franco-Prus
: sian War. Twenty years later his
triumph still tasted sweet to him, and
in his memoirs he jeered at Favre be?
cause the Frenchman had shed tears
' when putting his name to the paper.
There is a vastly different drama
I being enacted at Versailles now. Forty
five years ago two countries only were
| concerned in the negotiations that
: made Germany an empire, and there
were three negotiators. Bismarck
alone and imperious, represented Ger
! many, while Jules Favre and Adolph?
Thiers were the French commissioners
: Bismarck with his suite had taker
: possession of the Hotel Trianon, ther
: a small building, little more than t
roadside inn. The Frenchmen wer?
lodged in the Hotel des Reservoirs an?
daily trudged across the park to lister
, to Bismarck's insults.
German Tune Changes
To-day it is the Germans who com?
, as suppliants; they are represented
? not by the giant who destroyed on.
: empire and made another, but by si:
commissioners and a suite of mor
' than 200 secretaries, clerks and as
i sistants. Facin?; them at the signin;
\ of the treaty will be the representa
1 tives of the thirty-four nations com
I bined against Germany.
But if Favre shed tears, it is re
corded that Count von Brockdori
: Rantzau nearly fainted from emotio
! when he handed the credentials of th
German peace delegates to Jules Cam
bon, ex-Ambassador to Berlin an
chairman of the credentials committt
for the Allies.
It was again in the Hotel Triano
that this brief ceremony took plac?
But it is a new building, modern an
huge were it not dwarfed by the gret
ch?teau of Louis XIV. For this peac
the Hotel Trianon is the hcadquartei
; of Germany's enemies and Germany
envoys are lodged in the Hotel des Re:
ervoirs, from which they cross tr
park to hear the terms their conque
ors have to offer.
Favre and Thiers followed the fi
miliar paths on foot. The Germans f
in automobiles provided by the Frene
I government. A space a quarter of
: mile square has been fenced off \
; save the Germans from possible a:
noyance, and military guards stand i
every crossing.
"It is very good of me to take tl
trouble you have imposed on me," sa
Bismarck to Favre and Thiers. "Oi
conditions are ultimatums. You mu
take them or leave them. I don't, wa
to be mixed up any more with th
affair. Bring an interpreter with vi
to-morrow. Henceforth I shall n
speak French."
The Germans have been allowed
send six representatives and a gre
staff of assistants to conduct negoti
tion?. They are counting upon arg
ing long over President Wilson's fon
teen points, and securing many modi
cations in the terms of the treaty
agreed upon by the Allies.
Bismarck imposed on France a fii
called an Indemnity, of $1,200,000,0
for losing the war, and would listen
no arguments of remonstrances frt
the French representatives. It \\
j of the Lusitania is being comme?? I
! ated." **
Dr. Charles Lewis Slatterv, rector
Grace Church, said, in part; "
"Four years to-day the word
stirred to its depths by the delibera
sinking of a passenger ship on ' tij
high seas. On that day it became cW
j that if the war did not soon end th
' nation must inevitably enter the s\r?f
; I shall never forget the quiv?^
shudder that passed through us wh?
I we heard of this deed. I cannot reoH
? words of hatred, but of loathing F?e
ing was too deep for vindictive word?
' And to-day, without bitterness ?T
j must ask the nation which sank th
i Lusitania to repudiate the deed ?ith
' the same abhorrence as we felt on th
Jay we mourned.
"We meet to-day to give thanks to
the heroes who yielded up their ]iv?
? on the last voyage of the Lusitania i
is right that they Aould be rankJ
| among the army of martyrs ?Jo
brought victory to our cause. \y,
honor them in that in sailing ?hPB
they did they trusted to internaron*]
virtue in face of warnings and immi?
nent danger. The world is growing
better because of such valiant soul?
who refuse to think evil of their ie|.
low men.
"Was First War Link"
"We honor them, too, becaur.e thij
linked us with the suffering million
of Europe. It was then, for the fir?|
time, that we suffered through oui
own flesh and blood. When wh cor
sider wrat our national affiliationi
would have been to-day had this wg
bren fought to a finish without us ?,
must remember with sturdy pride tho*
whose sacrifices showed us where ou
duty lay. Had we allowed freedom b
le swept off the face of the earth, to
day we would be degraded to the levi
of abject slaves.
"On the other hand, if the thrt
great nations had won the war witt
out us we would have had the cor
sciousness of undeserved bounty at th
hands of the brave for whom we h?
jeopardized nothing. Let us prat!
God to-day foi the heroes of the Lu?
tama, through whose death wp saw th
first sharp light of national life an
national honor.
"We did not enter the war f<
prudence sake or for commercial gaj
Our humane sympathies were arouse
The Germans lrfade a stupendous mi
take when they concluded that wp ??*
too busy spending money and enjoyii
ourselves to care to enter the war.
Societies Represented
The following societies were repj
sented at the anniversary service:
Alliance Fran?aise, Charle*
Downer; American Defence Sociel
Charles Stewart Davison; Americ
Rights League, James B. Tow-nsen
Aztec Club, H. Fitzjohn Porter; C
nadian Club of New York, J. W. Ree
Colonial Order of the Acorn, 'harl
II. Stout; Colonial Dames of Ameri,
Mrs. Ernest Longfellow; Colon
Dames of New York, Mrs. William
P. Thorne; Daughters of the Cine
nati. Mrs. Russell Evans Tuck?
Daughters of American Revoluti?
Miss Caroline B. Dow: Daughters
the Revolution, Mrs. P. H. Millikc
Holland Society of New York, Jud
Augustus Van Wyck; Huguenot ?
ciety of America, Dr. Edward L. Pa
ridge; Mayflower Descendants, Colo:
Richard Henry Greene; Military On
Foreign Wars, Talbot Root; Militi
Order of the Loyal Legion of I
United States, the Rev. George F. N
son; National Security League,
Robert McElroy; New York Genealc
cal and Biographical Society, Dr. J(
E. Stillwell; New York Historical
ciety, Frederic D. Weekes; Or,
Founder.* and Patriots of America,
S. Kissam; Order Colonial Lords
the Manor in America. Fdward De
Livingston; Society American Wi
Rufus Shirley; Societv Colonial Wi
William Dal?iba Dutton; St. Andr?
Society, Alexander D. Holliday;
George's Society, George E. Ide;
Nicholas Society, William D. Murp
St. Patrick's Society, Joseph Row
Sons American Revolution, Lc
Annin Ames; Sons of the Revolut
John M. Blake; the Pilgrims, Geo
T.Wilson.
only in response to 'he protest? of the
English government that the indemnity
was reduced to $1,000,000,000. Favre
says of the way in which Bismarck
accepted the reduction:
"M. de Bismarck would listen to
] nothing. His language was impetuous,
: almost passionate, and his tone was
! harsh, it was easy to see that he was
lyider the influence of violent feeling?
hostile to our deliberations. 1 had no
difficulty in understanding this, becausi
, I knew that the evening before he had
received the news of the dispatch of
Lord Granville." (The dispatch stat?
ing England's protest against the
amount of the indemnity.)
On this occasion the German dele?
gates have brought with them a bill fol
$13,650,000,000 against the Allies for
! damages and losses caused by the
| blockade, with which they hope to off
: set the huge sum they will have to pay?
| in reparation to the countrirs tnej
' have despoiled.
In 1871 Bismarck tore Alsacc-Lor
; raine from France, and when Favre,
? protested, "You admit that if you con?
i suit the inhabitants they will be unan?
imous in rejecting you," the cha1 cellor
replied, "I know that perfectly. We
shall not please them, but we do riot
include them among the electors you
will consult, since we intend to
i these districts absolutely.''
By the present treaty Aisa ? and
i Lorraine are to be restored to France,
! and Germany as a punishmen*
! cruelty and misrule is to lose her col?
onies in all part of the world.
! "If the Parisians first received ?
supply of provisions and wer? then
? again put on half rations and more and
more obliged to starve, that ought, I
think, to work," said Bismarck in 1871*
"It is like flogging. When it is admin?
istered continuously it is not felt se
much. But when it is suspended for S
time and then another dose inflicted
it hurts."
"Sign the treaty or the blockade will
be restored in full rigor," say the Al
| lies to Germany to-day.
It is the exact reverse of 1871 and,
in so far as may be, the c<"
? have been duplicated, but this time
I with the Germans seated below the
salt. The conquerors once mor? oc
! cupy the Hotel Trianon and the sup?
pliants the Hotel des Reservoirs,
Daily the conquered seek the ?.ictor?.
And the great scene will csme with the
signing of the treaty.
January 18. 1871, in th? Hall rf Mir
rors of the Chateau of Versai!!?*?- Bwj
marck proclaimed King William o'
Prussia German Emperor. In the ?afn?
Hall of Mirrors the six peac* dew'
gates of defeated Germany will certify
to the world with their Signatur? ? thai
the German empire has ceased to exist.
a
States to Get 20,000 Motor
Truck? From War Surplu?
WASHINGTON, May 7. Mor?? than
$45,000,000 worth of motor trucks hav?
been turned over to the Department <M
Agriculture by the War Departmen!
and are ready to be distributed to tht
various state highwav department!
through the Bureau of Public Reads, i1
was announced here to-day.
The trucks, numbering about 20,000
a majority of which are new, are ?
part of the surplus left on thf hand:
of the W?r Department when the w?
ended. They are to be distributed U
th? states under a provision of th?
Postofnce appropriation bill, and mul
be used on road construction work?