Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-03

Paris, Sept. (by the Associated
Press. Chancellor Karl Renner,
head of the Austrian peace delegation,
left tonight for Vienna with the allied
reply to the observations of the Aus
trian delegation on the condition of
peace. addressed to Herr Renner and
signed by NJ Clemenceau, as president
of the council, as follows:
Draft of the covering letter: d.
The allied and associated powers
have given most careful consideration
to the observations of the Austrian
delegation on the draft treaty of peace.
The reply of the Austrian delegation
objects to the draft treaty on the
grounds that in view of the dissolu-
tion of the Austro- Hungarian mon
arehy, Austria ought not to be treated.
as an enemy state at all and that, in
consequence she ought not to be made
in any special way inheritor of re-
sponsibilities in regard to reparation,
TO which the Austro- Hungarian mon
archy would undoubtedly be liable,
did it still exist.
las these observations point to a
fundamental misconception of the re-
sponsibilities of the people of Austria,
the allied and associated powers feel
it necessary to state as briefly as may
be the principles which they consider
must be applied to the settlement of
the later war so far as Austria is cor
cerned. The people of Austria, to-
gether with their neighbors, the peo-
pie of Hungary, bear in peculiar
degree responsibility for the calami-
ties which have befallen Europe dur
ing the last five years.
THE war was precipitated by an
lultimatum presented to Serbia by the
government at Vienna and requiring
acceptance within forty-eight hours of
a series of demands which amounted
to the destruction of the independ-
ence of a neighboring sovereign state.
The royal government of Serbia ac-
cepted within the prescribed time all
the demands except those which in
volved the virtual surrender of its
independence.
yet the then Austro-Hungarian
government, refusing all offers of a
conference on Cancellation on the basis
of that reply, Immediately opened
hostilities against Serbia. thereby de-
liberately setting light to train,
which led directly to a universal war
ut is now evident that this ulti-
matum was no more than an insincere
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the late autocrat government at
Vienna in close association with the
rulers of Germany, had long prepared
and for which II considered the time
had arrived. The presence of Austrian
guns at the siege of Liege and Namur
is further proof, if proof were re-
quired, of the intimate association of
the government of Vienna with the
government of Berlin in its plea
tplot?) against public lay and the
liberties of Europe.
THE Austrian delegation appear 10
think that responsibility for these acts
losted solely on the Hapsburg dynasty
and its satellites and that by reason of
the dissolution of that monarchy
through the victory of the allies the
people of Austria can escape. respon-
sibility for the deeds of the govern
ment. which as their own government
and which had its home in their
capital.
People We're It's supporters.
Had the people of Austria in the
years preceding endeavored to cure
the militarist and domineering spirit
by which the government of the Haps-