AUSTRIAN RIGHTS OUTSIDE EUROPE.

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

AUSTRIAN RIGHTS OUTSIDE EUROPE.

PART 4,

# Outside Europe Austria renounces all rights, titles and privileges as to her and her allies' territories to all the Allied and associated Powers, and undertakes to accept whatever measures are taken by the principal Allied Powers in relation thereto. Austria accepts all tho arrangements which the Allied and associated Powers make with Turkey and Bulgaria with reference to any rights, privileges, or interests claimed in those countries by Austria or her nationals, ana not dealt with elsewhere. Austria accepts all arrangements which the Allied and associated Powers make with Germany concerning the territories whose abandonment was imposed upon Denmark by tho Treaty of 1564.

PROTECTION OF MINORITIES

In a series of special clauses. Austria undertakes to bring her institutions into conformity with the principles of liberty and justice, and acknowledges that the obligations for the protection of territories are matters of international concern over which the League of Nations lias jurisdiction. She 'assures complete protection of life and liberty to all inhabitants of Austria without distinction of birth, nationality, language, race, or religion together with the right to the free exercise of any creed. All Austrian nations without distinction of race, language, or religion, are to be equal before the law. No restrictions are to be imposed on the free use of any language in private or public, and reasonable facilities are to be given to Austrian nationals of non-German speech for the use of their language before the courts.

The clauses as to Egypt, Morocco, China, and Siam are identical, after the necessary modifications, with those of the German Treaty, r:cPT>t thai especially in the case of China there is not need for so great detail.