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2 TIIE MORNING OKEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, 3IAY 14, 1919. GERMAN CHANCELLOR THUNDERS PROTEST Assembly Cheers Denunciation of Peace Treaty. WILSON JUSTICE DERIDED Germany Cannot Accept Conditions Demanded by Entente Powers, Icclarcs Scheidcmann. 'BERLIN. May 12. (By the Associat ed Press.) The declaration by Chan cellor Scheidemann in the national as sembly today that the peace terms were unacceptable brought the members of the assembly, the spectators and those in the press gallery to their feet in a hurricane af cheers and applause. The chancellor reached the climax of his statement on the peace terms ten minutes after he began. The chancellor paused in his address and then thun dered out the word which announced the German government's rejection ot the Versailles conditions. "This treaty," he said, "is, in the view of the imperial government, unaccept able, so unacceptable that 1 am unable to believe that this earth could bear such a document without a cry issuing from millions and millions of throats in all lands, without distinction of party. Away with this murderous scheme." With the exception of tho independ ent socialists, led by Hujro Haase, all factions in the assembly arose and cheered vociferously. The assembly is sitting temporarily in the assembly hall of the University of Berlin on Unter den Linden. Chancellor Well Supported. After the chancellor's speech the leaders of the various parties, with the exception of the Haase group, made epeeches in which they declared they backed up the government. The chancellor described the peace treaty as a "dreadful and murderous document." He said it would make an enormous jail of Germany in which 60.000,000 persons would have to labor for the victors in the war. The chan cellor said German trade would be strangled should the peace terms b accepted. " He criticised President Wilson and aid that the president by his attitude had deceived the German people. The chancellor declared that the oc casion was the turning point in the life of the German people, as the as sembly was to decide the attitude toward "what our adversaries call peace conditions." Gravest Danger Foreseen. "The representatives of the nation,' ho continued, "meet here as the last band of the faithful assembles when the fatherland is in the greatest dan ger. All have appeared except the rep resentatives of Alsace-Lorraine, who have been deprived of the right to be represented here just as you are to be deprived of the right to exercise in a free vote the right of self-determination. "And I see among you the repre sentatives of all the German races and lands, the chosen representatives of the Khineland, the Saar, East Prussia, West Prussia, Posen, Silesia, Danzig and Me me I. Together with the deputies of the unmenaced regions, I see the deputies of the menaced provinces, who, if the will of our enemies becomes law, are to meet for the last time as Germans among Germans. "I know I am one in heart with' you In the gravity and sanctity of this hour, which should be ruled by only one idea that we belong to one another and must stand by one another and that we ( are of one flesh and one blood and that whoever tries to sever us is driving a murderous k nife into the living body of the German people. Life IVotv Germany's Aim. To keep our nation alive that and nothing else is our duty.. We are pur suing mo nationalistic dreams. No dues tions of prestige and no thirst for power have a part in our deliberations. Bare life is what we must have for our land and nation today while everyone feels a throttling hand at his throat. "Let me speak without tactical con siderations. The thing which is at the basis of our discussion is this volume in which 100 sentences begin "Germany renounces. This dreadful and murder ous volume by which confession of our un worthiness, our consent to pitiless disruption, our agreement to helotry and slavery a.re to be extorted this book must not become-the future code of law." "The world has once again lost an 11 , luslon. The nations have in this per iod, which ia so poor in ideals, again lost a belief. What name on thousands of bloody battlefields, in thousands of trenches, in orphan families and among the despairing and abandoned has been mentioned during these four years with more devotion and belief than the name of Wilson? Today the picture of the peace-bringer as the world pic tured him is paling beside the dark forms of our jailors to one of whom. Premier Clemenceau. a Frenchman re cently wrote: The wild beast has been put in a cage on bread and water but is allowed to keep his teeth, while his claws are hardly cut.' Prison Picture Shown. 'All over Berlin we see posters In tended to arouse a practical love for our brothers in captivity. They show sad and hopeless laces behind the prison bars that is the right frontis piece for the so-colled peace treaty, a true portrait of Germany's future. Sixty million are behind the barbed- wire and the prison bars 60,000,000 at hard labor, for whom the enemy makes their own land a prison camp. Should the peace conditions be ac cepted Germany no longer could call anything her own which lies outaide these narrow bounds. Germany nas ceased to exist abroad, but as if that were not sufficient, her cables have been taken from her and her wireless stations can send only commercial tele grams and then only under control of the allies. This would separate us from the outer world, for what business can be done under the control of com petitors need not to be described. But this is far from enougn. im council therefore determines treaties between enemv countries to be null and void except such treaties whose execution is in favor of a government of the allied powers. Wilaon Equality Derided. What does President Wilson so aptly say? That the first principle or peace itself is equality, equal participation in common benefits." Herr Scheidemann then argued that this principle had been abrogated in the peace terms. He continued:'" "That is the jail picture in Us ex ternal aspects; without ships, because the mercantile fleet passes into entente hands, without cable, without colonies, without foreign settlements, without reciprocity and legal protection, yes, and even without the right to co-oper ate in fixing the prices for the goods and articles which we have to deliver as tribute. "I ask you what honest man will say that Germany can accept such condi tions? At the same time, as we shall have to bestir ourselves to perform forced labor for the benefit of the en tire world, our foreign trade, the sole source of our welfare, is destroyed and our home trade is rendered impossible. Lorraine iron ore, upper Silesian coal, Alsatian potash, the Saar valley mines and the cheap foodstuffs from Posen and west Prussia are to lie outside our frontiers. We are to impose no higher tariff or protection than existed on August 1, 1914, while our enemies may do as much as they like at every point in strangling us at home. All German revenues must be held at the disposal of our enemies for payments, not for war invalids and widows all as forced labor for products the prices of which will be fixed by our customers. What Can Germany Doff "What is a people to do which Is confronted by the command that it is responsible for all losses and damages that its enemies suffered in the war? What is a people to do which is to have no voice in fixing its obligation? "Because, perhaps, this humiliation and robbery is even yet insufficient and in order to utilize every future possibility of destruction, the yoke must finally be placed on our neck and a miserable enslavement established for our children and our children's children. Germany undertakes to put into force and to publish all acts of egislation, all prescriptions and all regulations which might be necessary insure the complete carrying out of the terms. We ' have made counter-proposals and shall make still more. With your consent we regard It as our sacred task to come io negotiations. Some Hopeful Signs Seen. Here and there insight and the com mon obligations of humanity are be ginning to make themselves felt in eutral countries; in Italy and in Great Britain above all, too this is a com fort for us in this last fearful flam ing up of the policy of the mailed fist and in socialistic France voices are be ng heard whereby historians one day will measure the state of humanity after four years of murder. Herr Scheidemann added: "I am especially thankful for and re echo the vow of imperishable devotion and faithfulness ringing across to us from Vienna. Stand by us in paving the way to negotiations; leave no one n the world in doubt regarding the fact that you are one with us. We protest against hatred being per petuated forever, a curse being; estao lished for all eternity. Members of the national assembly, the dignity of hu manity is placed in your hands. Pre serve it. BOLSHEVIK GiBO T IS SIM BY BRITISH Engagement Is Reported Be tween Fleets on Dvina. 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The White sea is not yet clear of ice, but is navigable at the mouth. PARIS, May 13. (French wireless service.) The feeding of the Russian population is no solution of the Russian question, it is declared in a memoran dum sent to the peace conference by Prince Lvoff, Sergius Sazonoff and President Tschaikowsky of the North Russia government, concerning the pro posal to feed soviet Russia through neutral countries on condition that the bolsheviki cease hostilities. The memo randum says: "The allies wish to assist the Rus sian people and to reduce the starva tion brought by the bolshevik regime. This cannot fail to awake deep feelings of gratitude. "Nevertheless the signers of this dec laration consider that the realisation of this generous thought will have a ontrary result unless efficient meas- res are taken to prevent the bolshevik! authorities from interfering with the revlctualmg of Russia. To bring fail ure to this deed of humanity would be of use only to the protectors of the bolsheviki regime and would help to prolong their domination. Food Declared Solution. The task which the Russian national movement must fulfill is to liberate Russia from tho yoke of those who have reduced her to her present state of im potence and to the necessity of relying upon foreign countries for her food. The feeding of the famished population is no solution of the Russian question. Consequently the struggle to liberate Russia from her oppressors and to give Russia a government of her own choos ing cannot be stopped for any reason whatever. The signers of this declara tion wish to state that Russia will pay for the food provided for her, but they hope that the allies will refuse to give the bolshevik usurpers the right to dis pose of Russia's patrimony." GERMAN POLICY DEFINED (Continued From First Pare.) TURKS' FATE CONSIDERED (Continued From First Page. league of nations devised by the Ger mans are set forth as follows: a Pre vention of International disputes; b disarmament; c Securing freedom of traffic and general economic equality of rights: d Protection of national minorities; e Creation of an interna tional workers charter; f Regulation of colonial questions; g Unity of ex isting and future international institu tions; h The creation of a parliament. Another provision of the draft reads: The league of nations shall comprise (a) All belligerent states taking part in the present war; (B) all neutral states included In The Hague arbitra tion league; (c) all others to be admit ted by vote of two-thirds of the exist ing members. Entrance is reserved to the holy see. . VIENNA, May 12. (By the Associat ed Press.) Reports from Budapest say the position of tho Hungarian commu nist government appears to have grown stronger in the past few days. Commnalsti Are Kncouragrd. The halt of the Roumanian advance has encouraged the communists. Official announcement has been made that the allied troops moving on Buda pest were ordered late last week to halt their advance by the peace con ference. The Roumanians, however, have ef fected a Junction with the Czecho-Slo-vaks and have cut off communication between Budapest and Russia by way of Ukraine. The peace negotiations at Paris art being watched closely by the com munist government. The Volks Timme and other newspapers in Budapest de nounce the peace treaty as capitalis tic," aiming at the enslavement of "our noble German brothers." PARIS, May 13. (By the Associated Press.) In the peace treaty with Aus tria, now well toward completion, a responsibility clause has been inserted identical with that in the German treaty with the exception that the first clause, providing for the trial of former Emperor William, is omitted. The re maining clause makes provision for the trial of military offenders by an in ternational courtmartlaL Frontier Diff lenities Great. The frontier delimitation of the new Austria presents the one serious issue in the drawing of the treaty, some what similar to that of the Kaar Valley in the German treaty. This is as regards the lower Tyrol, a section of which is detached from Austria and placed within the boundaries of Italy. It includes the cities of Bozen and Meran and an estlmaed German popula tion of about 250,000. The reason for attaching this German-speaking population to Italy is the establishing of a strategic fron tier, giving Italy adequate protection from invasion from the north. The old frontier ran south cf the Alps, with Italy in the downgrade and Aus trla on the commanding heights. The nw frontier reverses this. giving Italy the heights and all the defensive j passages. The xormer siaius geve Austria se !n lines of approach, while Italy possessed only one main line for mobilizing its defenses. The new status places all these lines of approach under Italy. As has been stated, the frontier line, as drawn in the terms to be presented to the Austrians, is th one laid down by the treaty of London, although the treaty makes no mention of this fact. Italy sought this line as a permanent strategic defense, secured its insertion in the armistice terms and now se cures Its lr corporation in tho treaty. Walla Walla Boy Killed Instantly. WALLA WALLA, Wash.,May 13. Cecil Irvine, aged 18. was Instantly killed at Freewater last night when his foot came in contact with a dynamo Jr. the sub-station at Freewater. He was performing gymnastic stunts on a hand railing when he slipped. ing of S3 men and six women, among the latter being Professor Lammaschs' wife and daughter, will nott reach St. Germain until Wednesday evening, the French having vetoed daytome arrival. HTTNS' EYES OX SAAR VALLEY In Xbat Matter Allies Look for Seri ous Situation. BY HERBERT BATARD SWOPE. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub UBnea oy ArruiEemeiiLi PARIS. May 13. (Special Cable.) It is the apparent Intention of the Ger man commissioners to keep the peace pot boiling and propaganda hot by the frequent submission of interrogatories. some of which are broadly disputatious and others direct and relevant. Count von Brockdorf f-Rantzau may go to Berlin this week to confer with his government and get material for new protests against the treaty. The chance that he may not return seems to give satisfaction to the allies. Behind the activities of the German delegation lie one definite motive and one supreme objective, compared with which their present gestures are super ficial and meaningless. The purpose animating their attitude concerns the Saar valley. In that matter the allies expect a serious situation. On the subject of the Saar Count von Brock- dorff-Rantzau's most violent pro nouncement may be expected. The big four, working withthe for eign ministers, disposed yesterday of the Austrian boundaries and ordered their inclusion in the treaty as a bar to the union of German-Austria and Germany. A summary already sent of the Austrian treaty made this clause much less severe than does the actual instrument. The terms read substan tially as follows: "No union with Germany or other nations shall be effectuated without the consent and approval of the council of the league of nations." Germany Is preparing to attack this provision as being destructive of the right of self determination, and of course Austria will take the same position. German resentment of the treaty is seemingly strong beneath the surface. but there are indications that after strenuous protest the commissioners will sign the document. No action has yet been taken in the matter of the trial of the former kaiser. His legal status seems to become great ly involved, the more It is studied. basis of understanding would soon be reached. , The Italian representatives are re ported to be evincing more of a will ingness to make concessions. The discussions of the day began when Premier Orlando called upon E. M. House, of the American delegation. No further communication had been received from the German representa tives at Versailles, and the experts to whom the last notes from Count Von Brockdorf f-Rantzau !?ad been referred had not yet reported. This afternoon President Wilson re ceived Thomas Nelson Page, the Ameri can ambassador to Italy, in connec tion with the Italian question. Italians Back With Allies. The Italian representatives have re sumed complete participation in the pending peace negotiations by appoint ing a member of the liaison commis sion controlling all communications with the German delegation. 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