The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-10
PEACE TREATY.
WITH ENTENTE.
SIGNED TODAY
BY AuSTR|ANS
Second of Central Powers
Bows to Allied Terms -
Pact Completed After Three
Months Deliberation.
FORBIDS GERMAN union
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press>
Renner, head of the Austrian delega-
tion to the peace conference, signed
the treaty of peace between the allied
and associated powers and the Aus
trian republic at 1918 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 entered the Hall of
| Mirrors at Versailles on June %.
| Georges Clemenceau, president of the
peace conference, then rose and open
| ed the session, asking Dr. Renner to
affix his signature to the treaty and
annexes and announcing that the dele
gates would then be called in the or
der in which they were named in the
preamble of the document.
DR.. Renner bowed and smiled gra-
ciously as he approached the table and
| bowed and smiled again to the dele
gates dlteF signing DIS ne turned 10
go to his seat
Polk First for U. S.
Frank L. Polk, who succeeded Sec
retary of State Robert Lansing as
head of the United States delegation
signed after DR.. Renner and was fol-
| lowed by Henry White and General
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. Clemenceau's
opening address had been transla ted
into German and Immediately walked
to the signing table and signed the
document.
When the French delegation went
Ito the signing table and passed DR..
Renner's chair, the latter rose and
bowed very politely to M. Clemenceau.
who returned the salutation.
Delegates Arrive Early
| NJ. Clemeneeau entered the room
at exactly ten o'clock, being saluted
by the guard of honor. He took his
place at the table with Frank l.. Polk
on his right and A. ]. Balfour, Brit
ish secretary of state for foreign af
fairs, on his left.
Delegates of the allied and asso-
ciated powers began arriving here at
9:45 o'clock this morning for the
ceremony. Tomasso Tittani. Italian
minister of foreign affairs, was one of
the first to reach this city from Paris.
The weather is fine, the sun is shin
| ing brightly.
China Signs Terms.
Today's ceremony at ST. German
brings to a close three months Of
negotiations between the Austrian re-
M he n11i iaI tnI
powers. An incomplete draft of the
conditions of peace was handed the
Austrian delegates at ST Germain on
June 2, the reserved sections relating
to the military, financial reparation
and some boundary features of the
treaty being presented on July 20 The
Austrian government laid its counter
proposals before the peace conference
last month and the answer to the Aus
trian delegation on Sept. 2.
China, which did not sign the treaty
with Germany because of the inclusion
in that convention of the section CIV
ing to Japan the German rights and
concessions in the province Of Shan
tung, 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 to-
day is very different rom the proud
Hungarian empire of 1914. All
that remains of the former empire is
what is known as German Austria, in
Guiding upper and lower Austria and
parts of Styria and Tyrol
Since the close of hoStilities there
has been a movement afoot by which
ct,o ho hv
many. BY one of the most important
clauses by the treaty signed today,
this is forbidden.
The treaty does not stipulate an
exact sum to be paid in indemnities
but this amount will be fixed by the
reparations commission on or before
May l, 1921, the the commission also
being empowered to determine the
details of the payments which will ex-
tend over a period of thirty years.
This sum must be paid by the Aus
trian republic and is not to be appor-
toned among the component parts of
the country which have been declared
independent.
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 re.
!. store invaded areas She is also to
deliver up to the allied countries the
works of art and objects of historic
value which were carried away by the
Austrians during the conflict.
Fiume Is Unsettled.
Austrias army is reduced to 10000
men on a 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 ex.
cept for industrial purposes.
, The economic clauses and those rel
atiye to the freedom of transit are
similar to those of the German pact
J ~ !.