Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-09-09
ALLIES ULT|MATUM
/. SENT TO GERMANY
Constitution Must Be Changed;
Violates Treaty Provision.
RHINE ADVANCE THREATENED
Clause Admitting Teutonic Delegates
to Reichstag Is the cause-Rou-
mania Also Menaced With
Entente Action.

Paris, Sept. 3.-The supreme council
Of the peace conference decided to
send a note in forceful terms to the
German government pointing out the
contradiction with the Versailles treaty
of the provision in the new German
constitution providing for the represen-
tation of Austria in the German reichs-
rath.
The council demands the suppression
Of the article within fortnight, declar-
ing that otherwise the allies will be
compelled to undertake further occu-
patton of the left bank of the Rhine.
Article 81 Objected To.
The provision objected to is article
81 of the German constitution, which is
held to be in conflict with article so of
the German peace treaty, forbidding
German interference in Austrian af-
fairs.
(Article so of the Versailles treaty reads:
Germany acknowledges and will respect
strictly the independence of Austria,
within the frontiers which may be fixed
in treaty between that state and The
principal allied and associated powers;
she agrees that this independence shall
be inalienable except with the consent of
the council of the League of Nations"
The text of the paragraph in the German
constitution referred to has not been re-
ceived in this country. 1t appears, how
ever, that the clause applied to all terri
tories of German-speaking peoples in Eu-
rope and therefore to German Austria
with the effect of providing that Austria
might have a certain number of repre-
sentatfves in the German parliament pro-
portionate to the Austrian population.)
The supreme council also discussed
the failure of ROumania to make writ
ten responses to the councils notes. 1t
is likely the council will send an adj
miral in the near future with an en-
phatic note demanding an immediate
response by ROumania to the councils
communications.
American at Meetings.
In spite of the fact that it will be i'm
possible for the United States to name
its member of the permanent repara-
tons commission until the American
government ratifies the treaty with
Germany, the American delegation is
being kept constantly in touch with
financial and economic discussions
which are taking place at Versailles
and Paris.
Ellis DreSe, formerly of the Ameri-
can legation at Bern, is temporarily
looking after the financial and eco
nOmic interests of the United States
and has the assistance of several other
experts, who are studying problems
arising out of the German treaty pro-
visions. He is sitting in the confer
ences between allied and German
financial representatives.
1t is expected in official circles that
the chamber of deputies will vote on
the German peace treaty Saturday, ac-
cording to Marcel Hutin of the Echo
de Paris.
The senate will require four sittings
before voting on the treaty, and conse-
quently it is believed that the ratifica-
ton of the convention will be promul-
gated in the official journal between
September Is and September Is.
Treaty Delivered to Austria.
Paris, Sept. 3.-The revised text of
the peace terms for Austria was hand
ed to the Austrian plenipotentiaries at
st. Germain-an-Laye. The treaty was
presented by Paul Dutasta, general
secretary of the peace conference.
He also handed them the allies reply
to the Austrian contemporaries and
a covering letter reiterating that Aus
tria had precipitated the war by an I'LL
timatum unacceptable to Serbia. 1t
was set forth, however, that the allies
were willing to assist Austria to adapt
itself to its new situation and to admit
it in the near future to the League of
Nations. The treaty was presented in
French, English and Italian.
Rush Bulgarian Treaty.
The allies supreme council, desiring
at the earliest moment possible to con-
clude treaty with Bulgaria, has decid-
ed to hand the Bulgarian delegation
the text of a convention which will
determine the boundaries of the coun-
try.
The Egean seaport, access to which
the allies have decided to give Bulgaria
under the peace treaty, is Dedeagatch,
with the railway leading to that port.
The Bulgarian delegation will be
asked to renOunce claim to certain ter
ritory which will be stipulated in the
peace treaty. The distribution of this
territory will be made later. The stu
alton with regard to the disposition of
Thrace, on which the allied delegates
still are divided, will not be a cause
for delay in the. conclusion of peace
with Bulgaria.