CONDITIONS OF PEACE.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15088, 3 June 1919, Page 5

CONDITIONS OF PEACE.

PRESENTAIiuN OF COMPLETED

CLAUSES

PARTITION Oi< THE EMPIRE.

Austria reduced 10 six million people..

TERRITORIAL STIPULATIONS

London, June 1

The conditions of peace uf tne Aliied and associated "Jfowers, wibti the exception of the military, reparation, 'financial, and certain boundary clauses, were handed to the Austrian plenipotentiaries acr'ernienin on May lb'th. Those clauses which are not yet ready for presentation will be delivered as soon as possiuie, the Austrians meanwhile having an opportunity to begin work on the greater part of the Treaty in an effort 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-Hun-garian Empire.

Austria is left by the Treaty a State of about six million people, inhabiting a territory of between 50,000 and 60,000 square miles.

Austria recognises the complete independence of Hungary, Czeqho-Slavia, and the Serbo-Croat-Slovene State, and cedes other territories which previously, in union with her, composed the Empire of Austria-Hungary. Austria agrees to accept "the League of Nations covenant and the labour charter, to renounce all her extra-Eu-ropean rights, to demobilise her whole naval and aerial forces, to admit the right of trial by the Allied and associated Powers of her nationals guilty of violation of 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 following summary Part I. } containing the covenant of the League oF Nations, and Part 12, containing the labour convention, are identical with tnose in the German Treaty, and are therefore omitted. Part 6, dealing with prisoners of war and graves, and Part 10, with aerial navigation, are identi- i cal with the substitution of "Austria" j and "Austrian" for "Germany" and f "German," and are also omitted. Simi- • larly Part 13 of the German Treaty, i containing guarantees for its execution, ! is not included in the Austrian Treaty.