The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-02
SUMMARY Of
AUSTRIAN TREATY
Follows Exactly Same Outline
as German Document, Elk
cept in Change Of
Names.
TRIAL OF GUILTY ONES
Required to Recognize Complete Inde-
pendence Of Hungary, Serbia,
Croats, Siovaks and
Others.
TRIAL OF GUILTY ONES

| UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
! The following is summary Of the
Austrian treaty:
"Text Of summary:
1.-THE conditions of peace OF the
allied and associated powers, with
the exception OF military, reparations,
financial and certain boundary
, clauses. were handed to the Austrian
! plenipotentaries at St Germain to-
| day. Those clauses which are not
yet ready for presentation will be de-
| uvered as soon as possible, the Aus
trians in the meantime having the
opportunity to begin work on the
greater part of the treaty in an
effort to facilitate final decision.
| 1.-THE Austrian treaty follows exactly
the same outline as the German and
in many places is identical with it.
except for the change in name. Ger
tain specific clauses which applied
only to Germany are Of course
omitted and certain new clauses in
cluded, especially as regards the new
states created out Of the former Aus
tro- Hungarian empire and the protec-
tion of rights Of the racial, religious
and linguistic minorities in Austria,
Czecho-Slovakia, Roumania and Serb
Croat-Slovene state.
Austria Is left by the treaty a
state of from six million or seven
million people inhabiting territory
Of between FIVE thousand and six
thousand square miles. She is re-
quired to recognize the complete in
dependence of Hungary, Czecho-Slo-
vakia and the Serb-Croat-Si3vene
state, and to cede other territories
which previously in union with her
composed the empire of Austria-Hun-
gary with its population of over fifty
million people.
Austria agrees to accept the
league of nations covenant and the
labor charter, to renounce all her
extra European rights, to demobilize
her whole naval and aerial forces to
admit the right of trial by the allied
and associated powers of her nation
ais guilty of violating the law and
customs in force and to accept de-
tailed provisions similar to those of
the German treaty as to economic
relations and freedom of transit.
"On the following summary part 1
Of the treaty, containing the covenant
or the league of nations and part IL,
containing the labor convention, are
omitted as being identical with cores
ponding sections of the German
treaty.
Part six, dealing. with prisoners of
war and graves, and part IL, with
aerial navigation, are also identical
except for the substitution of names,
and are likewise omitted. Part 13 Of
the German treaty containing guaran-
tees Of execution, is not paralleled in
the Austrian treaty.
1.-THE preamble is longer and more
detailed than in the German summary
and is as follows:
Whereas on request Of the former
imperial and royal Austro-Hungarian
government, an armistice was granted
to Austria-Hungary on November g.,
1918, by the principal allied and asso-
cjated powers, in order that a treaty
of peace might be concluded, and
Whereas the allied and associated
war in which certain among them
indirectly, against Austria, and which
originated in the declaration of war
against Serbia on July %, 1914, by the
Austro-Hungarian government, and in
the hostilities conducted by Germany
in alliance with Austr1a-Hungary
should be replaced by firm, just and
durable peace, and
Whereas the former Austro-
hungarian monarchy has now ceased
to exist and has been replaced in
Austria by a republican government.
and
Whereas the principal allied and
associated powers have already recog-
nized the Czecho-Slovak state, in
which are incorporated certain por-
tions of the said monarchy, is a free,
Independent and allied state, and
Whereas, the state powers have
also recognized the union of certain
portions Of the said monarchy with
the territory of the kingdom Of Ser
hia as free, independent and allied
state, under the name OF Serb-Croat-
Slovpe state and
Whereas it is necessary while