Treaty of Peace with Germany

TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

UNITED STATES SENATE

SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON THE

TREATY OF PEACE WITH GERMANY, SIGNED AT VERSAILLES
ON JUNE 28, 1919, AND SUBMITTED TO THE SENATE

ON JULY 10, 1919, BY THE PRESIDENT

OF THE UNITED STATES

Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1919

HENRY CABOT LODGE, Massachusetts, Chairman. PORTER J. MCCUMBER, North Dakota. GILBERT M. HITCHCOCK, Nebraska. WILLIAM E. BORAH, Idaho.

JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS, Mississippi. FRANK B. BRANDEGEE, Connecticut. CLAUDE A. SWANSON, Virginia. ALBERT B. FALL, New Mexico.

ATLEE POMERENE, Ohio. PAILANDER C. KNOX, Pennsylvania. MARCUS A. SMITH, Arizona. WARREN G. HARDING, Ohio.

KEY PITTMAN, Nevada.
HIRAM W.JOHNSON, California.

JOHN K. SHIELDS, Tennessee.
HARRY S. NEW, Indiana.
GEORGE H. MOSES, New Hampshire.

CHARLES F. REDMOND, Clerk.

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1001

Statement of Alexander J. Johnson....

........ 1041

ALBANIA:

Statements of

C. Telford Erickson.....

971

C. A. Chekrezi...........

C. A. Dako.........

1005

BARUCH, BERNARD M.:

Statements of, on economic clauses...

......... 5, 38, 53

CHINA:

Statements of -

Thomas F. F. Millard.

430

John C. Ferguson.........

... 557, 583

Edward T. Williams......

617

Lansing-Ishii agreement, with respect to.......

225

Announcement of Department of State concerning exchange of notes with

Japan, in regard to.....................

Message of the President concerning protest of American delegates to the

peace conference in regard to Shantung..

Convention of March 6, 1898, between China and Germany with respect to

the lease of Kiaochow to Cermany........

585

Agreement of March 21, 1900, between China and Germany with regard to

the Kiaochow-Chinan Railway Regulations......................

587

Convention of November 28, 1905, between China and Germany regarding

the withdrawal of German troops from Kiaochow and Kaomi.

590

Agreement of July 24, 1911, between the provincial authorities of Shantung

and the Chino-German Mining Co., for delimiting mining areas in Shan-

| tung...........

591

....

Official statement of the Chinese Government with regard to the Japanese

ultimatum of May 7, 1915.....

601

Opium traffic in Shantung-

Statements of

E. T. Williams.........

647

E. E. Macklin.....

699

Memoranda on Shantung, filed by-

R. T. Caldwell.......

George Gordon Battle...

G. A. Beall....

FIUME. (See Italy.)
GREECE:

Statements of -

William S. Felton....

Prof. George M. Bolling....

N. J. Cassavetes.........

Dr. Bela Sekely........

Henry Baracs...

Brief of Hungarian American Federation........

INDIA:

Statement of Dudley Field Malone........

IRELAND:

Statements of

Daniel F. Cohalan........

Frank P. Walsh.................

Michael J. Ryan............

Edward F. Dupne...........

W. W. McDowell...

John Archdeacon Murphy.

Daniel C. O'Flaherty.....

W. Bourke Cockran.......

Memorial of citizens of Irish origin in opposition to the league of nations..

Declaration of Independence of.......

Correspondence between the American commissioners for Irish independ-

ence, the American peace commission, etc....

Report of American Commission on Irish Independence relating to condi-

tions in Ireland...........

....

Report of interview in Paris between the President of the United States

and the American Commission on Irish Independence...

Brief protesting against arguments presented to the committee in behalf

Fiorello H. La Guardia, Member of Congress....

Prof. Alexander Oldrini.

S. A. Cotillo................

Ernest Papich..........

Marian Curry.................

Dr. L. Vacarro ................

W. H. Field.......

Brief of Italo-American Irredentist Association

225

JAPAN:

Lansing-Ishii agreement......

Announcement by United States Department of State regarding exchange

of notes with, concerning China (Nov. 2, 1917).......

Message of the President regarding alleged secret treaty between Ger-

many and........
Official statement of Chinese Government regarding ultimatum by.......

Page.

1091
1098
1100
1105
1108

Frank Kerze....

Philip Godina...

LABOR:

International conference on-

Statement of the Secretary of Labor......

LANSING-ISHI agreement.
LANSING, Robert. (See State, Secretary of.)
LATVIA:
Statements by-

R. T. Caldwell...
George Gordon Battle...
Rev. Carl Podin.......

George

Ordo

DallO.....................

.......

251

LEAGUE OF NATIONS:

Statement of David Hunter Miller......

Resolution submitted to American peace commissioners by the Secretary

of State, with respect to ........

American draft of a covenant for.........

First report of the commission on......

Final report of the commission on......

Proceedings of the Peace Commission on covenant

Address of the President on, at the Peace Conference.........

Membership of the commission on.......

George Gordon Battle......

John S. Lopatto..

MILLER, DAVID HUNTER:

Statement on the league of nations...

NEGROES, RACE EQUALITY AND PROTECTION OF, ETC.:

Statements of -

William Monroe Trocter......

Allen W. Whaley.......

Joseph H. Stewart.......

J. H. Neill............

J. T. Thomas.....

W. H. Jernagan...

Charles S. Williams..........

J. A. Lankford........

PALMER, BRADLEY W.:

Statement of, on economic clauses.....

Peace CONFERENCE:

Membership of commissions of the...

PERSIA:

Statement of Charles Wells Russell......

Alleged treaty with Great Britain (Aug. 9, 1919).

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