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trality Of the grand duchy Of Luxem-
burg and accepts in all
ternational agreements as to 1t eachT
eds hy Allied and Associated Powers.
Austria accepts all ARRANGEMENTS
which the Allied and Associateo
powers make with Turkey and u
rafia with reference to any rights,
nrivileees or interests claimed In
these countries by Austria or her Ia
tionals and not dealt with elsewhere.
Austria accepts all arrangements with
the Allied and Associated
made with Germany concerning the
territories whose abandonment vas
imposed upon Denmark by the treaty
of:.1S64.
Iva series of special clauses, Aus
trfa undertakes to bring her lnstltu-
tons into conformity with the prin-
ciples Of liberty and justice and &C
knowledgcs that the obligations for
the protection of minorities are mat
ters of international concert over
which the League of Nations has jur-
isdiction. She assures complete pro-
lection of life and liberty to all In
tabitants Of Austria without dlstinc-
ton of birth, nationality, language,
race OT ICllSAoAs o6SSASA "HS
right to the free exercise of n creed.
All Austrian nationals without dis
tinction of race, language or religion
are to. be equal before the law. NO
restrictions are to be imposed on the
freedom on any language in private or
public and reasonable facllltles are 10
be given to Austrian nationals or non-
German, speech for the use of their
language, before the courts. Austrian
nationals belonging to racial, religious
or linguistic minorities are to enjoy
the same protection as other u
trian nationals in particular with re.
gard to schools and other educational
establishments and in districts where
a considerable proportion of Austrian
nationals of other than German
speech are resident. facilities are to
be given in schools for the instruction
of children in their " language and
an equable share of public funds is to
provisions do not preclude the Aus
trian government from making the
teaching of German obligatory. They
are, to be embodied by Austria in her
fundamental law as a bill of right
and provisions regarding them are to
Of Nations.
Austrian Rights.
Outside Europe, Austria r%enounces
all rights, titles and provides as to her
own. or her Allies territories to all the
Allied and the Associated Powers and
undertakes to accept whatever meas
,ures are taken by. the principal Allied
powers in relation thereto.
The causes as to Egypt. Morocco,
China and Siam are identical after
the necessary notifications with those
of the German treaty except that es-
pecially in the case of China there is
no need for so great detail.
A.,,~1 -r>l AS- nnvcn
The military clauses are reserved.
Naval: All Austro-Hungarian war
ships, submarines and vessels of the
Danube flotilla are declared to be fin
ally surrendered. to the principal Al
lied and associated powers. Twenty
one specified auxiliary cruisers are TO
be disarmed and treated as merchant
ships. All w%arships and submarines
under construction in ports which be-
long or have belonged to Austria
Hungary shall be broken up, the sal
wage not to be used except for indus
trial urpoScS and not to be sold to
foreign countries. The construction
or acquisition Of any submarine even
for commercial purposes is forbidden,
All " arms. ammunition and 9TH
er war material belonging to Austria
Hungary at the date of the armlStlce
shall be surrendered to the Allies. The
Austrian wireless station at Vienna is
not to he used for naval. military. OF
political messages relating to Aus
tria or her late allies without the as
sent of the Allied and associated gov.
ernments during three months but
only for commercial urpose unael
supervision. During the same period
Austria is not to build any more high
power wireless stations.
Air Clauses.
The air clauses are practically the
same as in the German treaty excen
for the 100 a%irplanes and their per
sonnet which Germany is allowed II
retain until October to search fo,
mines.
Austria agrees not to accredit o
send any military, laval or air mis-
sion to any foreign country nor to al
low Austrian nationals TO enlist in tn
army, navy or air service Of any for
eign power.
The section on penalties is identi
cal with the German treaty exceE
for the omission of any provision sim
liar to that calling for the trial Of tn
ex-kaiser of Germany.
The section on PREPARATIONS is re
served.
The financial clauses are RESERVED
Economic clauses are, except i
certain details such as shipping, sin
liar to those of he German treat
Special provisions are added, how
ever, for former Austro-Hungaria
nationals acquiring an Allied nation
atty. Similar to those in the Germa
treaty, relating to the inhabitants
Alsace-Lorraine. their contracts al
maintained subject to cancellation i
their governments. Austria unde
takes to recognize any agreement
convention made by the Allies to SAT
guard the interests of their nationa
in any undertakings constituted und'
Austro-Hungarian law which ope
ates in territories detached from Il
former Austrian empire and to tran
fer any necessary documents and i
formation in regard to them.
~: Freedom of Transit.
The clauses as to freedom Of ira,
sit are the same in the Austrian