THE PEACE TREATY.

Taihape Daily Times, 21 May 1919, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY.

AUSTRIAN TERMS.

KEW YORK, May 19

The United Press Association Pans correspondent, outlining the terms of the Austro Hungarian peace treaty, says (that Austria will be reduced to ■what is known as German Austria, Jugoslavia will be given the Banat of Tcmesvar. Roumania will be given a larger part of Transylvania, and Italy gets- the Tyrol. Austro-Hungary will get sea access regardless of the out(£ne of the Fiume negotiations. Conscription is abolished and the AustroHungarian armies reduced to a voluntary police force. Austria must surrender all her munitions and artillery, and all but a nominal number of warships. Hungary must reduce the Roumanian frontier fortifications. The economic provisions are similar to the German treaty. Czecho Slovaks, Jugo Slavs, Hungarians and Austrians share the pre-war debts proportionate to their interest when they were in .the Empire. A permanent Allied financial commission will handle indemnities. The treaty provides for the trial of those guilty of criminal acts. Ho provision is made for the (trial of *j|he ex-Empcror Karl, A special commission under the League of Nations will superintend the Danube navigation.

TURKEY’S FATE.

ALLLIES WITH THE CARVING. KNIFE.

PARIS, May IS.

Inspired French comments say that the occupation of Smyrna by the Greeks, is the first stop towards the total dismemberment of the Turkish Empire. The apportionment writes “Pertinax/’ in the “Echo de Paris,” is as follows: Constantinople will be internationalised under American mandate, France refusing it. The rest of Turkey in Europe, with Smyrna, will go to Greece. Armenia will be independent, protected by America. Mesopotamia and Palestine will be under a mandate to Britain, who will be predominating also in Arabia, while Syria, including Adana, will be under a mandate to France, and Italy will have Adalia. The Turkish remnant will have as new capital—Konich or Broussa.”

* The newspaper “MidiV says: Decission regarding Syria is uncertain, and there is doubt about America’s willingness to accept a mandate covering Constantinople. WORST FEARS ENTERTAINED. “ LONDON, May 20. The net ,'result lof : inquiries in official, quarters show that there has 1)6011 no news of Hawker since he left Newfoundland. Considerable regret is expressed that he was loft to do the journey unaided, and contrasts are made with American accounts of how the naval dispositions like clockwork. Day and night, until tbo Azores w r ere sighted, the airmen were able to see destroyers 5 . star shells forty miles distant. Occasionally fog came up. That was the only source of '-trouble, but it was serious while it lasted, and emphasises the difficulties of Hawker’s track along a far worse route. Few events in recent years have so stirred the imagination of Britain as Hawker’s and Grieve ’3 great adventure. If existing fears arc unhappily realised, it will be regarded as a national loss. The prospect regarding their rescue overshadows all other topics.

NEW’ YORK. May 19

The Now York Times’ Washington correspondent has recenvel a cable from Ponta Delgada saying that Towers, commander of No. 3, is safe.