The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-07-25

termined by the PREPARATIONS commits.
sion provided for in the treaty with
Germany, which is to have a specia.
section to handle the Austrian situa-
ton. The commission will notify Aus.
tria before May l, 1921, Of the extent
of her liabilities and of the schedule
of payments for the discharge there.
of during a period of 80 years. II
will bear in mind the dimunitions Of
Austria's resources and capacity Of
payment.
As immediate reparation, Austria
shall pay during 1919, 1920 and the
first four months of 1921, "a reason.
able sum which shall be determined
by the commission"
Three bond issues shall be made
the first before May /, 1921, without
interest, the second at 2h per cent
interest, between 1921 and 1926, anc
thereafter at five per cent, with an ad-
ditional one per cent for amortization
beginning in 1926, and a third at five
per cent when the commission is sat
isfied that Austria can meet the in
terest and sinking fund obligations.
The amount shall be divided by the
allied and associated powers in pro
portions determined upon in advance
on a basis of general equality.
The Austrian section of the rep
arations commission shall include rep
resentatives Of the United States,
Great Britain, France, Italy, Greece.
Poland, Rumania, the Serbo-Slovene
state and Czecho-Slovakia. The first
four shall each appoint a delegate with
two votes, and the other five shall
choose one delegate each year to rep
resent them all. Withdrawal from the
commission is permitted on II months
notice.
Austria, recognizing the right of
the allies to ton-for-ton replacement
of all ships lost or damaged in the
war, cedes all merchant ships and
fishing boats belonging to nationals
of the former empire, agreeing to de-
liver them within two months to the
Preparations commission, with a view
to making good the losses in river
tonnage, she agrees to deliver up 20
per cent of her river fleet.
The allied and associated powers re-
quire, and Austria undertakes, that in
part r]eparation she will devote her &C.
onomic u to the physical res
toration of the invaded area. Within
60 days of the coming into force Of
the treaty, the governments concern
ed shall file with the Preparations COM
mission, lists of animals, machinery,
equipment and the like destroyed by
Austria and which the governments
desire replaced in kind and lists of the
materials which they desire produced
in Austria for the work Of reconstruct
ton, and which shall be reviewed in
the light of Austria's ability to meet
them.
Must Turn Over Livestock.
AS an immediate advance as to ami
mails Austria agrees to deliver within
three months after ratification of the
treaty, 1000 mich cow to Italy, and
1000 each to Serbia and Rumania;
1000 heifers to Italy, 800 to Serbia
and 500 to Rumania, so bulls to Italy
and 243each to Serbia and Rumania;
1000 calves to each of the three ma
tons; 100 bullocks to Italy and 500
each to Serbia and Rumania; 1000
saws to Italy, and 1000 draught horses
and 1000 sheep to both Serbia and Ru-
mania.
Austria also agrees to give an op-
ton for five years as to timber, iron
and %magnesite in amounts as nearly
equal to the pre-war importations as
Austria's ]our make possible. She
renounces in favor Of Italy all cables
and territories assigned to Italy, and
in favor of the allied and associated
powers the other.
Austria agrees to restore all rec
ords, documents, objects of antiquity
and art and all scientific and biblio-
graphical material taken away from
the invaded or coded territories.
She will also hand over without de-
lay all official records of the coded
territories and all records, documents
and historical material possessed by
public institutions and having a direct
bearing OF the history of the ceded
territories during the past ten years,
except that for Italy the period shall
be from 1861.