The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-06-02
PORTION OF
PEACE PACT
HANDED TO
AUSTRIANS
Peace Terms Presented To-
day Leaves State of 5000
Square Miles = Adriatic
Question Still Unsettled.
Is DAYS FOR A REPLY
tBy Associated Press,

81. GEhMAlNE, June Z.-AQSCrR
was today given Is days to reply to
the terms of peace presented by the
allied nations.
The entire peace treaty was not pre-
sented to the Austrians today and the
fifteen days stipulation with regard to
their reply therefore, refers only to
the portion Of the terms handed them
at today's session.
M. Clemenceau, president Of the
peace conference, was the first prom
inent figure to arrive today at the
meeting at which the terms Of peace
were presented.
Wilson Delayed.
Secretary of State Lansing and Hen
~ White were the first American rep
iresentatives to arrive, Premier Orlan-
do of Italy and Premier Paderewsh of
Poland and Arthur Balfour following
At IL o'clock President Wilson had
not arrived and the ceremony of pre-
sentation was delayed somewhat The
president, however, reached St Ger
main at 1874 o'clock. A puncture IN
the tire Of his automobile had held
him up on the way.
| President Wilson's auto mishap oc-
CURED at st. Cloud. While the pune
tured tire was being mended an army
car passed. It was commandeered by
the presidents party and the president
and Rear Admiral Grayson drove at
high speed on to St. Germain.
CIemenceau Gives Address.
The Austrian representatives ar
! rived at 1922 o'clock entering the
chamber by a rear entrance. The dele
gates were attired in conventional
morning dress.
The Austrians were escorted In by
an Italian officer. Immediately upon
their arrival at 1922 o'clock the ses-
sion was formally opened by announce
ment Of the head usher-Premier Gle
menceau, president of the peace con-
; ference, at once began his address.
4 NJ. Clemenceau spoke only three
minutes.
The hall was densely packed, many
of the secretaries having been admit
ted to the chamber and the denseness
Of the throng detracted somewhat
from the impressiveness Of the cere-
mony.
Only Part Of Terms.
Paul Dutasta, general secretary of
the peace conference, presented the
terms to the Austrians at 12:37
o'clock
DR.. Karl Renner, the Austrian chan
cellor and head Of the delegation, then
began an address in German
The conditions of the treaty, with
the exception Of military, reparations,
| financial, and certain boundary
clauses were handed to the Austrians
today. Those clauses which are not
!, yet ready for presentation will be de-
. livered as soon as possible. the Aus
, trians in the meanwhile having the
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greater part Of the treaty in an effort
I to facilitate final decision.
The Austrian treaty follows exactly
! the same outline as the German and
in many places is identical with It ex-
, cept for the change in name. Certain
, specific clauses which applied only to
Germany are of course omitted and
certain new clauses included, espe-
cfally as regards the new states Great
: ed but of the former Austro-Hungar-
, ian empire and the protection Of the
: right of the racial. religious, and lin
. guistic minorities in Austria, Czeeho-
Slovaka, Roumania and the Serbian
, Croatan-Slovenian state.
t Austria is left by the treaty state
2 or from six or seven million people
inihabitating a territory of between g.
: 600 and 5000 square miles
: Accepts League Covenant
e She IS required to recognize the
4 complete independence of Hungary
Czechi Slovakia and the Serbian Croat.
ian, Serbian-Slovenian state and to
! cede other territories which previously
, were in union with her composed en-.
+ tirely of Austria Hungary with its pop
/. ulation of over 100000 people
n Austria agrees to accept the league
Of nations covenant and the labor char
, ter. to renounce all her extra-Europear
) rights, to demobilize her whole navaI
q and aerial forces, to admit the right
). of trials by the allied and associated
powers of her nationals guilty of vio
!, lating the law and customs of force
- and to accept detailed provisions simi
, lar to those of the German treaty as
= to economic relations and freedom o
u transit.
The summary shows part one of the
, treaty containing the covenant of the
league of nations and part twelve as
being identical with corresponding
z sections of the German treaty. Par
y 6 dealing with prisoners of war anC
e graves and part II with aerial naviga
y tion are also identical except to tbs
substitution of names. Part thirteer
q of the German treaty containing guar
y antees of execution is not paralleleC
n in the Austrian treaty. The preamble
IT is longer and more detailed than IL
is the German summary.
Austrian Frontiers.
The following official summary o
D. the official Austrian peace terms was
e made available today in diplomatic
h circles here:
x. The frontiers of Austria: Norther.
le frontier facing Czecho-Sloyakia, fol
a. lows existing administrative boundar
J. les formerly separating provinces o
If Bahemia and Morayia from those o
Upper and Lower Austria, subject t.
N correction and minor rectifcations
le notably in regions of Gmund ant
r Feldsborg and along the river Moraya
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