Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-09-10
Negotiated Three Months.

Negotiated Three Months.
Today's ceremony at St. GermaIn
brings to close three months 81
negotiations between the Austrian re-
public and the allied, and asseetaeea
powers. An incomplete draft OF the
conditions of peacs. was handed the
Austrian delegates at st. German on
June g. the reserved sections. rela,-
ing to the military. financial repara-
ton and some boundary features OF
the treaty being presented July 20.
The Austrian government laid It's
counter proposals before the peace
conference last month, and the answer
to the Austrian delegation was made
September 9.
China, which did not sign the
treaty with Germany because Of the
inclusion in that convention of the
section giving to Japan the German
rights and concessions in the province
OF Shantung, announced last week she
would sign the treaty with Austria
so that she would be able to join the
league of nations.
The Austrian republic. representa-
tives of which signed the treaty.. is
very different from the proud Austro-
Hungarian empire of 1914. The for
mer provinces of Bohemia and Mora
via and part of the duchy of
Teschen now form the republic of
Czecho slovakia. The remainder of
Teschen and most of Galicia have
new Ukrainian republic takes certain
sections in eastern Galicia and the
former Austrian crown land of Du-
kowina. Hungary has separated from
Austria along the historic boundary
between those portions of the for
hut hnc, l.
of the province of Pennsylvania,
which have been awarded to Ru-
mania.
On the south the provinces of Ca
rinthia. Dalmatia, Carniola, Croatia
and Slovania, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
as well as parts of Syria. are formed
in conjunction with Serbia into the
new Jugoslav kingdom. Parts of Ty-
rol are taken over by Italy. the boun-
daries of which are also extended so
as to include most of the Istrian pen
insula and a strip along the western
frontier of the province of Carin-
thia.
All That Remains.
All, therefore. that remains of the
!, former empire is what is known az
German Austria. including upper and
lower Austria and parts of Syria and
u.
there has been a movement by which
Austria would be annexed by Ger
many. BY one of the most important
clauses of the treaty signed today
this is forbidden.
The treaty does not stipulate an ex-
act sum to be paid in indemnities, but
this amount will be fixed by the repa-
rations commission on or before May
II, 1921, the commission also being
x1a%, a.,
of the payments, which will extend
over period of thirty years. This
sum must be paid by the Austrian re-
public and is not to be apportioned
among the component parts of the
country which have been declared in
dependent.
In addition to paying indemnities,
Austria must also replace ton for
ton all ships lost by the allies through
the activities of the Austrian navy
during the war and physically restore
invaded areas. She is also to deliver
up to allied countries works of art
and objects of historis value which
were carried away by the Austrians
during the conflict.
Austria's army is reduced to 10000
men, on purely voluntary basis, and
all her military establishments are
cut down in a proportionate manner
The entire Austrian naval fleet is to
be handed over to the allies. all ships
under construction being broken up
and the salvage is not to be used
except for industrial purposes.
The economical clauses and those
relative to freedom of transit are SIM
liar to those of the German pact.
Questions relative to the disposition
of the city of Fiume are not settled
in the Austrian treaty, but Austria
renounces in favor of the allied and
associated powers all her rights and
titles over territories formerly be-
longing to her which. though out
side the new frontiers of Austria,
have not at present been assigned to
any state. She undertakes to accept
any settlement made in regard to
those territories,