20 SEPTEMBER 1919, Page 2

The Allies -have made short work- of the quibbling German

reply to their complaint that the German Constitution violated the Pease Treaty by providing for the union of Austria with Germany. The Allies require the German Government to declare that the . clauses - complained of are invalid. Further; they demand that. the German Assembly shall ratify this declaration within a fortnight of the Peace Treaty coming into force. The Allies have, it is said,.ordered the German troops to evacuate the Baltic States at once. It must be added that, if the Allies- had been well advised, they would have insisted on this evacuation last November. Far from protecting the Letts and Esthonians against the Bolsheviks, General von der Goltz has simply played into the enemy's hands.