SAME OUTLINE AS GERMAN TERMS

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 128, 3 June 1919, Page 7

SAME OUTLINE AS GERMAN TERMS

NEW STATES CREATED

FREEDOM FOR MINORITIES

MILITARY CLAUSES RESERVED.

(UNITED TRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) . (ADS. AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND REUTER.) PARIS,. Ist June. The Peace conditions of the Allied and Associated Powers, with the exception of the military, reparation, financial, and certain boundary clauses, were handed to the Austrian plenipotentiaries at St. Germain on Sunday Those clauses which arc not yet ready for presentation will be delivered as soon as possible, the Anstrians meanwhile having an opportunity to bcgii; work on the greater 'part of the Treaty in order to facilitate the final decision. The Austrian Treaty follows exactly the same outline as the German Treaty, and in many places is identical with it except for the change in name Certain specific clauses which applied only to Germany are, of course, omitted, and certain new , clauses of particular applicability to Austria are included, especially as regards the new States created out of the former Austro-Hungai-ian Empire. Austria is left by the Treaty a State of about six millions of people, inhabiting a territory of between fifty thousand and sixty thousand square miles. Austria recognises the complete independence of Hungary, Ozecho-Slovakia, and the Serbo-Croat-Slovene State, and cedes other territories which were previously in the union, and with her com-, posed'the Empire of Austria-Hungary. Austria agrees to accept the League of Nations Covenant and the Labour charter, to renounce all her extra-European, rights to demobilise her whole naval and aerial forces, to admit the right of trial by the Allied and Associated Powers of those of her nationals guilty of violating the laws and customs of war, and to accept detailed provisions, similar to those in the German Treaty, as to economic relations and freedom of transit. In the following summary, Part 1., con-i taining the Covenant of the League of Nations, and Part XII., containing the Convention, are identical with those in the German Treaty, and are therefore omitted. Part VI., dealing with prisoners of war and graves, and Part X., dealing with aerial navigation, are identical, with the substitution of Austria and Austrian for Germany and German, and are also omitted. Similarly, Part XIII. of the German Treaty, containing guarantees for execution, is not included in the Austrian Treaty.