Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-10


Associated Press DIR. Karl Rem
ner. head of the Austrian delega-
tion to the peace conference sign
ed the treaty of peace between the
allied and associated powers and
the Austrian republic at 1915
o'clock this morning
When all the delegates present
had seated themselves at the round
table DR.. Renner was introduced
with the same fOrmality that was
observed when the Germans enter
ed the hall of mirrors at Versailles
n June rs. Georges CIemenceau,
PRESIDENT of the peace conference,
klen arose and opened the session,
skiing DR.. Renner to affix his sig
, Failure to the treaty and annexes
End announcing the delegates
! | ould then be called in the order
s which they were named in the
'eamble of the document \
kiDr Renner bowed and smiled
ttaciously as he approached the
Bile and bowed and smiled again
the delegates after signing as
turned to go to his seat.
s Polk Is Second.
+, fFrank l. Polk. who succeeded
ikcretary of State Lansing as head
i the United States delegation
GRned after DR.. Renner and was
I5llowed by Henry White and Gen
eral Bliss.
There was no hesitation on the
part of Dr. Renner in signing the
treaty. He rose from his seat on
the left wing of the table after NJ
ClemenCeaus opening address had
been translated into German and
walked to the signing table and
signed the document
Neither Premier Lloyd George
nor Colonel E. NJ House of the
United States delegation was pres
ent The British delegation was
made up of Mr. Balfour, Viscount
Miner. George NicolI Barnes and
General Seeley. The British dele
gates arrived soon after Mr.. Polk
entered the room and there was
very animated conversation for
several minutes, pending the ar
rival of NJ. Clemenceau-
Paderewski Causes Furry.
Mr.. Polk was accompanied by
his wife. After the other Ameri-
can delegates were seated IgnaCe
Jan Paderewski. the premier of
Poland. entered the room. his ar
rival provoking a furry of conver-
sation
- The signing of the treaty was
finished at HIS o'clock. NJ. Glenn
enceau then announced that the
session was closed.
Today's ceremony at German
brings to a close three months of
negotiations between the Austrian.
republic and the allied and assO-
ciated powers. An incomplete
draft of the conditions of peace
was handed to the Austrian dele
gates at St German on June 2,
the reserved sections relating to
military and financial section, and
some boundary features of the
treaty being presented on July 10.
The Austrian government laid its
counter proposals before the peace
conference last month and the an
swer to the Austrian delegation
was made on Sept. 2.
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, an
nounced last week she would sign
the treaty with Austria so that she
would be able to join the League
of Nations.
Is Changed Country.
The Austrian republic, repre-
sentatives of which signed the
treaty today, is very different from
the proud AustrO-Hungarian en-
pire of 1914. The former provinces
of Bohemia and Moravia, and a
part of the .Duchy of Teschen now
form the Czecho-SlOvakia. The re-
mainder of Teschen and most of
Galicia have been incorporated
into Poland. The new Ukraine re-
public takes certain sections in
Eastern GaIacia and the former
Austrian crown land of Bukowina. |
Hungary has separated from Aus
tria along the historic boundary