Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1919-05-22
Peace Terms for Austria Are Pre-
pared by the Allied Dele
4 gates at Paris.
GERMANS STILL PROTESTING
ebert and scheidemann Insist Treaty
Must Not Be Signed, and Allies
Get Ready for Further Action
--kolchak Plans to Crush
Soviet Armies.
BY EDWARD W. plckARD.


The allied peace delegates at Paris
were occupied last week mainly in pre-
pairing to hand out to Austria what is
coming to her, and in listening to the
walls, official and unofficial, of the
Germans over the treaty tnat awaits
their signature.
Austria's delegates, headed by Chan
cellor Karl Renner, were received and
housed at st. Germain. They were
treated with a good deal more cordial
ity than were the Germans at Yer
sailles, and were given quarters in
pleasant villas that overlook the Seine
valley and Paris with no high fences
or sentries to restrict their move
ments. In return, the Austrians ap-
peared in good humor and hopeful Of
lenient treatment, and seemed to ap-
preciate the good nature displayed by
the cosmopolitan crowd Of Journalists
and others that met them. Chancel-
lor Re0ner spoke in German but ex-
planned that this was because he was
unable to speak French, his courtesy
of Count Won Brockdorff- rff-Rantzau at
Versailles. In responding to the
greetings of the allies representatives
he said: 81 hope may go away with
as Joyful heart as bring" Other
members of the delegation intimated.
none too strongly, that they would not
be able to sign the treaty unless it
provided for the union of German Bo-
hemia and German Tyrol with Ger
many. 1t is assumed they will accept
the pact even If that annexation is
not permitted.
In some ways the treaty with Aus
tria, it is said, will be like that with
Germany. Austria is to lose her en-
tire navy, according to the reports,
and there is little doubt that when her
new boundaries are delimited she will
find that her southern frontier is push
ed back so far that Italy will have
not only the Trentino and Trieste, but
also all the strategic passes and
heights in the Alps which the Italians
say are necessary to their future Sc
curity. This is in accordance with
the secret treaty of London. In the
matter Of reparation Austria of course
will be required to pay certain sums,
but these will be small in comparison
with those demanded from the Ger
mans. The clauses concerning water
ways are much like those in the Ger
man treaty. The breaking up of the
Austro-H Hungarian empire has result
ed in reducing Austria to a rather
small fourth rate power without direct
access to the sea, and it is the aim of
at least some of the allied nations to
keep her in that condition. BY her.
self she is comparatively harmless !;
united with Germany, she would help
largely to make up q nation that might
again threaten the peace Of the world,
Won Brockiorff- -Rantzau and his
colleagues on the German delegation,
together with their numerous experts
have been as busy as bees formulat-
ing objections to the German treaty.
Several Of these were transmitted to
the allies last week and most of them
were rather summarily answered, and
dismissed. These formal objections
were considered mere preliminary
skirmishes, and meanwhile the Ger
mans were preparing elaborate coun-
ter.proposals. These, it Is said, would
contain two dominant diplomatic fea-
tures-an exaltation Of the league Of
nations idea, and vigorous demand
that there be "pure application Of
Wilson's fourteen points. The latter
is designed to win favor in America
and to create breach between the