PEACE TREATY

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1919, Page 5

PEACE TREATY

THE AUSTRIAN TEW& \IRMIES SEDUCED TO VOLUNTAS POLICE. - FRONTIERS READJUSTED, Received May 20, 5.5 pjn. Paris, May 12. The outlines of the terms of the Austro-Hungarian Peac* Treaty show that Austria will be reduced to what is row known ts German Austria. JugdSlovakia will be given Banat and' Temasvar, and Roumania will be given a large part of Transylvania. Italy gets the Tyrol. Austro-Bungary will get sea access, regardless of the Fiume outcome. Conscription is to be abolished, and the Austro-Hungarian armies are to be reduced to a voluntary police fore*. Austria must surrender all ammunition and artillery, and all but a nominal number of warships, Hungary must reduce her Roumanian frontier fortification*.

Th* economic provisions are similar to those of the German Treaty. The Czecho-Slovaks, Jugo-Slavs, Hungarian*, and Austrians will share the pre-war debts proportionately to their interest woen they were in the Empire. A permanent Allied financial commission Will handle the indemnities. The Treaty provides for the trial of thou guilty of criminal acta There is no provision for the trial of" the e*-Emperor Karl. A special commission, under the League of Nations, will superintend the Danube* navigation.—Aus.-N-Z Cable Asm. New York, May 12. Tie New York Times' Paris correspondent states that the League of Nations Covenant will not be incorporated in the Austrian Peace Treaty.—Aus. NJ& Cable Aasn. JIiRTUKR NOTES FROM KANTZAU. WILL EVENTUALLY SKM- " Paris, May 12. Otmt Rantzau presented two further notes on Sunday dealing with war prisoners and labor legislation. The Allies will reply on Monday. London, May 12. Th* Rotterdam correspondent of the Dairy Chronicle, summing up further evident*, predicts confidently that GerK*fty win sign the treaty after baxgainVorwarts, in an article headed "Burn, ot jump from the window," asks those supporting and advocating the refusal to sign the treaty what they can offer. The most favorable prospect will be starvation through unemployment, instead of slavery to the Entente.—Ant. NX Cable Assoc. DUTCH OPtNIOKS. PEACE TERMS CONDEMNED. Amsterdam, May 12. Herr Troelsira sharply eritieises the peace terms, which would be a calamity not only to Germany, but to the whole of humanity. He favors a revolution in the Allied countries, also in Holland, choosing an opportune moment. Troelstia does not regret Bolshevism, but opposes violence—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Rotterdam, May 12. With the exception : the Telegraaf the Dutch press unanimously and scathingly condemns the peace terms. It wastes no sympathy on Germany, but protests' that the terms will provoke bitter dissension in the future.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc '. KOftBAN DELEGATION'S CLAIM. Paris, May 13. The Korean delegation petitioned the Peace Conference claiming liberatidn from Japan, and the reconstruction Of Korea as an independent State. The declares that the Treaty of Seoul in 1910 was dictated in cireumstatttei of force which vitiated its validity,—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. Received May 20, 5.5 p.m. New York, May 12 (Delayed). The New York Times' Washington correffiobdeut states that the Korean ProS'swnal Government has announced that orea will soon present pleas for independence to the Paris Peace Conference.

AN "UNFORTUNATE ELEMENT."

Received Mav 20. 5.5 p.m. New York, May 12 (Delayed)

tjie New York World's Paris correspondent states that reports afe current that the Big Four contemplate the removal of Count von Rantzau as head of the German peace delegation. It is considefed t&tt his presence injects an unfortunate element in the conference.-Auc-N Z. Cable Assn. HSJGE WAR CLAIMS. Received May 21, 12.30 a.m. Washington, May 12. Altfflo j American war claims arising out of military operations have Teached the American Liquidation Commission, which finds, that a balance of £7,000,000 is payable to the United States.