Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-05
AUSTRIANS HOLD
PACT TERMS ARE
DEATH SENTENCE
Grand Council Adopts Bauer
Conclusion of Treaty;
Officials Meet Renner
GERMANY'S PRICE NAMED
Wilson and Premiers Dispos-
ed to Fix $25, OO,OOO,OO0 as
Sum to Be Demanded
iERMANY'S PRICE NAMED
By Associated Press.

. Austria's attitude towards the
peace terms presented her rep
resentatives at St. German on
Monday has not been officially
made known to the Allies. Ad-
vices from Vienna, however,
carry reports of official dissatis-
faction with their provisions and
a chorus of newspaper disap-
probation. There are indica-
tons, nevertheless that the peo-
pie as a whole are somewhat
lethargic.
Completion of the Austrian treaty,
several clauses of which were miss
ing in Mondays presentation, is not
likely to occur this week, although
the Peace Conference leaders are
giving daily attention to the matter.
The missing clauses, it is stated, are
likely to be transmitted to the Aus
trian representatives by note, as they
become complete.
Seek to Help Germany
Notifications in the terms of peace
With Germany seem to be approach
ing definite form, according to ad-
vices from Paris. These alterations,
1t is said, are planned primarily not
to make the terms lighter for the
Germans, but to render them easier
of execution.
Apparently President Wilson, Pre-
mier Lloyd George and Premier
Clemenceau are disposed to fix a
definite sum of approximately $25,-
100000 as the amount of in
demnity Germany will be called upon
to pay, and 1t seems possible that the
first instalment of about $4,000, ,000,-
600 may not have to be paid for
within two years, as now stipulated,
but within four years.
League Entrance Denied
The terms relative to Silesia and
Sara regions, too, may be altered.
There seems. however, to be a gem
eral agreement that Germany will
not be permitted to enter the League
of Nations at once. Premier Or
lando is standing aloof from these
discussions as Italy's interest is not
so much in the German as in the
Austrian treaty.
The establishment of the Rhenish
republic'by the people of the Rhine
land provinces of Germany is not
looked upon seriously in American
circles at the Peace Conference, it is
said. 1t is pointed out that no promi-
merit men in the Rhineland are
identified with the movement and
there is some doubt as to the spon-
taneity of the demand for a repub-
lie. Dispatches from German sources,
declare that French authorities have
taken a prominent role in the set.
ting up of the new government.
Transport Ready to Bring Wilson
President Wilson is likely to go to
Brussels next week on his long de-
ferred visit to Belgium, but the spe-
cific dates mentioned in Brussels dis
patches are characterized in Paris as
inaccurate. There is as yet no inti-
nation as to the date he plans to
sail for America, although his ship,
the George Washington, has been or
dered to be ready to steam for the
United States on twelve hours no.
tice any time after midnight to-
night.
Jugo-Slav forces which are invad-
ing the province of Carinthia. are
reported to be advancing, the village
of Volkermarkt. northeast of Kla-
genfurt, capital of Carinthia. having
been evacuated by the Austrian
troops defending 1t.
Reds Still Hold Petrograd
The reported capture of Petrograd
which was announced early this
week in a telegram from Vardoe to
Copenhagen, seems to be without
foun dation. Esthonian forces are
quite a distance west of the former
Russian capital and are being sub
jected to heavy attacks by the Boil
sheviki over a wide front