NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ON Wednesday Baron von Lersner, the German representative in Paris, handed back to M. Millerand the list of German officers and officials whose surrender is demanded by the Allies, and informed him that he resigned his post as head of the German Delegation and would leave for Berlin. Several newspapers speak of Baron von Lersner's act as a great surprise. It was lertainly dramatic, but it can have been no surprise to any one who understood whither events were tending. For one thing, the German plenipotentiaries who signed the Treaty remarked that, though they were unable to withhold their signatures, the surrender of officers would be impossible. The German Govern- ment, according to a semi-official report, have confirmed Baron von Lersner's act by declaring that they are unable to carry through the arrest and surrender of the black-listed persons. They offer, however, to hold trials in Germany at which the Allies could be represented.
