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TO FRANCE IN 1871. Speaking of armistice, it depend, after all upon whose ox is gored, how far the garing process has proceeded, and the paychological attitude of the respective owners of the animals engaged (saya the Eanias City Star). Germany asked for
TO GERMANY.
[BY EL THE BELGIAN` MINISTER.) Compensation for all damage done is one of the conditiona that the Allies will impose upon Germany. It is almost im- possible to estimate the snormous sum that the carrying out of this condition will involve.
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS; THE PEACE TERMS IMPOSED
ON NEW PROTECTION. NECESSITY FOR CLEAR
THINKING. u
prosperity.
"UPON RUMANIA. COMMENTS BY THE ALLIED
MINISTERS AT JASSI. `
WHAT GERMANY HAD IN STORE FOR
THE WESTERN POWERS.
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No one is so foolish as to think (writes Harold Bagbie, in the Daily Chronicla) that social reform can be had without paying for it; but a considerable number The following observations, dated May of social reformers appear to believe the 16th, 1918, were drawn up by the Allied society can undergo a radical reconstruc- To try to obtain some idea, the best without a basis of great industrial Ministers at Jassy with regard to the conditions of peace imposed upon Ru- way is to consider some losses already
It is important then, that democracy an armistice, with what good grace, Wet us take the war taxes levied should cultivate some slear thinking on masia by the Central Powers international unction and diplomatic in Belgium. We find that the taxes levied this matter, and should argue itself into To complete the information we have;
the only logical conclusion which can already furnished, we communicate a fnesse, the world outside of Germany on the principal towns during the Ger-serve its purpose, namely, that the par- took due note and set- dove its obser-man invasion are:
Brussels 50 million amount question for the State after the statement of the conditions imposed on vations. In 1671, France, or at least its francs; Tournai & million; Liège 20 miliar will be the question of trade and Rumania, which demonstrate in the best
industry. Are we to ensure employment capital, then a very much gored ox.lion; Antwerp 50 million, etc. In Novemby means of a tariff barrier, or to ensure possible manner the insatiable greed näd really bled white, was asking an armis ber 1914 the Germans levied a monthly & supply of raw materials by the magnet hypocrisy of German Imperialism.
of Fres Trade? Faced with the are tite and Germany, with its armies at tax of 40 million in Belgium; in Novem-mendous problem of finding work for all By request of the Germans, one of the ben gates, was the power in whose hands ber 1916 this monthly tax was increased our people when the artificial demands of reports states that the treaty admits of
war suddenly collapse, what economic lay the granting of it. Let us look back to 50 million; in May 7 it was raised policy are we to pursue, a policy which neither annexation nor indanity; but a moment, in passing, at the history of to 60 million francs, which represents will not only provide work for British the territories taken from Rumanis in the democracy, but work so profitable that wa Dobrudja and in the meuntain districts those days and see what views Germany, million frames a day or 89,000 francs an may pay our debts and lay the founda-cartain about one tenth of the entire through her military and diplomatic hour.
tions of a far juster social order1
population, or more than 800,000. inhabit- experts, Bismarck, Roon and Von Moltke,
covered.
1918,
960 million
FHER TRADE IMPREGNABLE.
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Germany has taken from Belgium, in then held on the subject of armistices. war tax only, from November 1914 te
I have discussed this matter with ants, and extend to more than 25,000 Precedents, while not arbitary guïdes. October
Strategic reasons its several eminent men, and in no case have square kilometres.
1 found a serious divergence of opinion. have been invoked to justify the rectifica are always valuable from the standpoint (£38,400,000); from November 1918 to First of all, everyone is agreed that Free tion of frontiers. That pretext is absurd; of suggestion
May 1917, 150 millions is. (£14,000,000); Trade, as an economic principio, isim if the Central Empires were to emerga September 1st, 1870, Sedan, with its from June 1917 to May 1919, 790 million statesman who before the war was a Tariff position of a German colony, and could pregnable believe that no responsible victorious, Rumania would remain in the army and the Emperor of France, aur frs. (£28,800,000); that is, 2,030 million Reformer now advocates a tax of may not in any way constitute a menace to
kind on food and
materials them on the other hand, the victory of rendered to the Germans October th
fps (£81,200,000).
Nothing, it is felt, must be done to hinder the Entente would re-establish the king- Bamine gave up another immense French If we add to this amount the cost of the coming of raw materials to this coun-
dom in
in its integrity a fact which cannot Army at Metz Gladly would the French the enormous requisitions in kind made try. Only the most blind and foolish per- but be recognized by our enemie
In by the Germans in Belgium, not only af.
son would suggest that a protective tariff reality, the most fertile forests of the have made pesce but for the avowed in the stocks of merchants and manufactar could serve our trade interests in a time mountain district are included in the tentions of the German government toere but also of things in use in private of universal dearth. We do not what to territories joined to Hungary, and the houses, the cost of the destruction they keep things out of this country; we want principal object of these rectifications has demand indemnities and the cession of have wrought, destruction not only of to attract them into our midst, and as been by this means to round off the sport- its territories. September 4th the Assem-factorice but of over 60,000 houses up to abundantly as possible. This, surely," is
ing estates of the Eungarian nobles and to ensure the prosperity of the forest of the present time, and the amount of fines self-evident. bly had declared the deposition
inflicted upon communal administrationa
Bug Free Trade, in a political sensexploitation companies, in which so many Napoleon and a proclamation was issued and upon private individuals, we bad is being summoned to prove its value. So persons of importance in the two Empires
that with 95,000,000,000 franca announcing the Republic.
the far as it stands as a synonym for fissez re interested, and which will thus be in Jules Favre material damage caused by the Germans faire, it is open to criticism. Indeed, I position to create a monopoly of build- asked the German Emperor if he meant in Belgium alone would not be entirely find no cpe of any note who defends it in ing timber. to farnish the nineteenth century with there is the moral damage to be consid is prepared to justify the principle of the territories, taken from Rumania were In addition to all this, however, this particular. The Professor, however, The Central Empires have 'stated that the spectacle of two nation, destroying ered, lesses to trade and industry, losses laissez faire as the most workable policy aninhabited. That is not the case. The one another and heaping the dead upon to the liberal professions, losses by the of this article for normal times. the dead and ruin upon ruin. Yet, if destruction of the health of thousands of these tites are not normal, nor are nor villages, with a total population of over Bat district annexed to Hungary contains 170 it is a challenge," he said, "we accept deported people and prisocers, by not an inch of our territory, not a stone death of thousand of bread-winners. All after the war.
the mal times likely to recur for some years 130,000 inhabitants.
The Professor's advocacy exclusively of the purest Rumanian stock. This population is of our fortresses, will we cede.**. this put together representa more billions of State control is all the more significant and has preserved its nationality through
This is an approximative account made because of Eis affectionate devotion to successive invasions in the for Belgium alone, to which must be laisser faire. But the German armies moved relent-added those of other countries, the north It is always desirable," he says, to
fame where it found an inviolable re daring the domination of the Turk lessly forward and begin the siege of juf France, Serbia, Poland, Western leave things to take their own course, but Finally, the monopoly in the exploita Paris, and France made up her mind to Russia, etc. The amount which we thus it is not always possible. Under ideal tion of the forests and the sale of timber, fight to the bitter end. Outside of Faris obtain reaches many hundreds of billions. conditions there is a natural tendency for as well as in the export of cereals, set up she had a scattered and demoralized Will Germany be able to pay Yes, for things to take the right course. Nature by the treats to the profit of Germany, in *raly maillion men. Inside of Paris, o bas
wealth, this client managing her a war
the she had the national guard and newly whose exploitation will be able to cover, affairs. But ideal conditions are hard to payment of which will weigh recruited Civilinna,, amounting to about after a certain time; this enormous sum.
If men were angels, Inisser faire Rumania for a long time to come. From come by. four hundred thousand men. With the
With regard to the loses of Belgium,
would therefore the
be the best policy; but men are not this year onwards the profit which Gor- armica zelened from Sedan and Metz. official statement has been made as to
The many will realize as a result of the differ- Germany encircled Paris and began the the number of soldiers killed and wound freest people have the best
fence between the real value of the cereals memorable siege. At first there was not, but if it be true, as reported more He points out that with produe and the prices-imposed will be considoa- bombardment--there were some among
than once, that during the invasion near- tion the laws of supply and demand may able the German leaders who wanted to save
be estimated at nearly 200,000 men, there out ample supplies nothing could be more ly half the army was lost, and if the camy be safely left to regulata prices; but with the "beautiful city." Bismarck and
is a probable loss in killed, wounded and disastrous Boon chafed against this sentimental re-
than the unchecked working of But the Belgians these laws Suppose the price of sugar Parisians have to have been fighting ever since the invasion. had been left to the demands of the pub
prisoners of 90,000. striction." much to cat and too little to digest.
lic, what would have been the price to wrote Roan in November, whes the situa
day 1 Probably at tenet 56. a pound; and tion in Paris was fast approaching the starvation stage, “iron pills, namely, of
the comicrtable classes from which too low have been employed Though certain intrigues stand in our way bere, I hope that they the pills- will take effect, it would be too great a shame to let all the glory of the war go to the devil in this way."
BEGAN SIEGE OF PARIS.
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mountain
8.-The Germans not to enter Pari.even that price would not have stopped arrangement Ramania, even after the
during the armistice.
7-Elections to be held throughout France for a national assembly to can- sider conditions, of peace.
AN ARMISTICE WITH À PUNCH.
but what Lost the working man it; We are being forced, he says, into new kind of Protection. The old idea of the Protectionist was to prevent prices going too low.
The new idea of Proted tion is to prevent prior going too high This form of Protection has come to stay for some years.
+3 TACE TO FACE WITH DEARTH.
Meanwhile from court to court, Thiers This was the preliminary draft of the travelled vainly seeking to effect a truce terms of the armistice upon which the the French government was as yet negotiations were opened Some modi- too unstable to deal with, was all the Scutions and changes were made before assurance he could get. By the middle the final signature. Outside of Paris of November the situation of the besieg French armies were still in the field fight od of Paris had grown appalling. Horse ing, their leaders declaring their deter meat soared in price beyond all reach.mination to continue the fight until more Rats, selling at sixty tentimes apiece, favourable terms of peace could be obtain were being eagerly devoured. Infants ed, with no indemnities and for nation of The districts in which these were dying by the thousands for want territory. of milk and the whole death rate had the armistice, And, as an earnest of the armies were fighting were exempted from trebled in a few months. A bitter, un indemnity proposition, Bismarck demand. usual winter was setting in. And just ed an immediate advance of "ransom about this time, the Germans, having money amounting to 40 million dollars. settled their aesthetical differences in the This was exclusive of the 1 billion dollars matter of the bombardment, began
afterwards indemnity throwing over Roon's "iron pille."* obtained After three days of negotia The Professor points out that after the Some fifty-six thousand shots were fired into the city, and at last after 132 days of starvation and appalling scenes of misery and death, Jules Favre was sent forth from Paris to ask an armistice.
BISMARCK WROTE PROPOSALS.
After the Arst salutations, an eye-witness Fayre met Bismarck at Versailles.
enforced, the concession to themselves of
Furthermore, the Austro Germans, have? the right to fix the amount of cereals to be exported, and the valuation of this amount is to be made in relation to their needs, and not in relation to the abun dance of the harvests. By virtue of this signature of peace, will be forced to sub- mit to a measure of rationing which may well amount to famine. Finally, it is the Rumanian Government who must advance the price of the produce pur- chased by the Central Empires, opening for them a current account, which geed not be settled till a later date and at the latter's convenience.
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The treaty has laid down a time-limit, We are face to face with an economic within which the Rumanian Parliament fact which drives us out of our old posire to approve its terms; no limit is pro- tions, whether we are Tariff Reformers or sided for the exchange of ratiñensions: Free Traders. We are face to face with any unwillingness on the part of one of dearth. There is neither food or raw the interested Governments will thus be materials suficient for the needs of the scient to ensure the indefinite pro- human race. Left to themselves, the laws longation to their profit of the enormous only one direction-a world wide and in theory, still exists. The peace of 1913 of supply and demand would work in advantages which the Austro-Germans are.
still gaining from the state of war, which, To save the human race from tous comment on Armageddon, the states has not yet been ratified by the Bulgarian supplies of the earth and the demands of of the treaty by the Rumanian Parlia men of the world must control both the Chamber and this is a precedent which CAJE be followed; besides, the ratification demanded and mankind.
ment, which will certainly take place, can tions, the atmistice was signed January war Germany will have to buy cotton, sercely be considered as strictly legal. 18th, 1371.
wool, and other raw materials, whatever The two great historical Ramanan In pursuance of this agreement, both their price may be, and that unless we parties abstained from participating in parties withdrew their outposts to a dis- control those things she would be like the election of this Parliament, which tance of five miles, but all the German bull in a china shop, rushing into all the thus took place under the pressure of the corps outside of Paris immediately markets and sending prices sky high, to German occupation, before the Rumanian occupied the forta lying in their front, the ruin of other nations. We can only soldiers had been able to return to their and St. Denis, the ground between the with raw materials until their supply, is more particularly those of Mont-Valerien escape this ruin by rationing Germany bones in order to take part in it, and in pursuance of an electoral law which had of the negotiations records, Favre said forts and the walls remaining neutral adequate to the world's dich she owe solved by the Marghilomas Ministry; this been abrogated by the Parliament dis- he had come to renew the negotiations ground.
The German prisoners were must work to pay the bill which she owe former, Farliament was alone qualified to for a truce. Bismarck interrupted him
up and the military material fol- to the human race Nothing could te to say: The situation has changed, lowed by degrees, and the
"ransom
set up the new electoral system on the. starving Germany. Germans the inch, not a stone, we may break off attice the first consideration of
The time has come when the State will already been voted in principle. The ence. My time is valuable and yours was to restore their troops to their war interfere to prevent people either from res of the candidates in this pretence also. Then after a little more talk, he standing and make good their stores. All buying or making what they want. They of an election were submitted for the added: After all, why should I treat the fort they occupied around Paria wote will have to buy what is provided for approval of the German authorities, who guise. On the signature of the treaty of with you? Why should I give your irre at once armed on the fronts facing the them, and to make only those things, which in any case, were already in possession of
city walls and all arrangements were are necessary, gular republic an appearance of legality made, in case of the recommencement of be an immense nuisance. He is critical vious appointment of M. Marghiloman population of the occupied territorios, He admits that this will all necessary guarantees' owing to the pre an order requiring the entire male peace, the German command promulgated by signing an armistice with its reprehostilities, so that the strongest resistance of bureaucracy. Ho would like to see the and to the abstention of the pro Entente that is to say, of two-thirds of Rumania, mentative ? What are you hit rebels? Your emperor, if he came back, would could be made at all points. It was made unhindered brains of the human race party.
the right to shoot every one of behind it.
between the ages of 14 and 60, to carry an armistice with a strong German punch freely working out beir own salvation. Far from giving Rumania partial out such work as may be assigned to them. After a few outbursts of this kind
Until there is
freedom, the present peace will complete The penalties for disobedience include Bismarck settled down to business. Fe
once more a suficiener naked. Fayre to write down such condi-
materials, must all tions of peace as seemed to him reason peace, the armistice was twice extended,
Fending the negotiations for a final trees we put a cubmit to the con- will continue to occupy her territories, some cases, which are not expressly de
Control," he says, even after the ratification, which, as we fined even that of death, able and that they would discuss them ach time with a few additional demands would work horrible but anything else have seen, she can put off as long to the To sum up, Germany, by the treaty she the next day..
His message to British democracy may the posts and telegraphs, and the railways ignored ber own declarations.
may wish the navigation-of the Danube, has imposed on Rumania, has cynically The next day, Bismarck having had upon the part of Germany. Finally, the interviews with the Emperor William neral elections were held all over France be summarised in this form: For at least remain under German control; by request treaty provides for the spoliation of the i
ratify the negotiations, the National two years after war we must practise of the Rumanian Government, a German public lands, for the scarcely concealed and Von Moltke, had another interview Assembly met at Bordeaux and a pro rigid self denial, and work with all our delegate has been appointed to each annexation of the whole country, and with Fayre and totally ignoring Favre's visional government, with M. Thiors at might to increase production beyond
Ministry. propositions, submitted his own schedule its head, was formed and a peace con- seeing that wages are kept up to meet the are to be stored in the occupied territories tion, and for the draining of its resources.
War material and munitions after the peace, for its barbarous exploita for an armistice, which was as follows cluded At the final conference Bismarck increased cost of living, we must exercise and under the care of the German milf to the profit of the conquerors; it turns
1-An armistice for twenty-one played his
Alenco Lorrumph cards the ccasion of patience in the matter of social reform; tary authorities; inally, Rumania may Rumania into a veritable convict actule | days.
1 billion dollars and
when supplies are adequate to huidan only keep in being the fortes necessary ment, where the entire 2-Disarmament of the French indemnity, and the stipulation that the needs, then we should do well to return, for policing her territory. army, the later to remain in Paris German Army should be allowed to march as soon as possible, to the full industrial German company for Agricultural the conquerors. It is a
demned to hard labouration is con the benefit of triumphantly through the streets of Paris freedom which our fathers laboured to exploitation has been founded, witherman peace
fair example of a as prisoners of war.
We should consider it 3-The soldiers to give up arme and
secure for & hundred and fifty year The treaty peace was signed at The Professor is eager for great funda capital of 80 millions. It seeks to create German delegates, informed the Rumanian all the more closely inasmuch as the banners; officers to keep their swords.
The armistice to extend all over Frankfort, the 10th of May. On the let of mental political reforms, and Wenders at on poly of Rumanian agricultural delegates, who were appalled at being re March thirty thousand Germans marched the folly which can oppose itself to these produce under the form of long lenses quired to accept such conditions, that they Frances
Paris to pay indemnity, and give into Paris and took possession of parts essential changes in our social order: Bat concluded under cover of the occupation would appreciate their: moderation" when
of the city, withdrawing after forty-eight he believer that man should be left with recognized by the treaties, and amount up its forts to the Prussian
hours having thereby satisfied their de nature to work his way to such milien. 8, in reality, to expropriation in dis they knew those which would be imposed on the Western Powers after the victory (Continued at foot of next column.) mand for the enemy's humiliation,'' nium as may be possible.
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