The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-24
RETURN FROM SPA
BrOckdOrff-R RantZau and Other
ENJOYS Back in Versailles.
Conferred With Scheidemann,
Erzberger and Bernstorff.

Versailles, May. 24-Count Won
Brockdorff- -Rantzau and the other
members of the German peace dele
cation who went to Spa on Thursday
returned here this morning with the
exception of DR.. Theodore Melchoir.
the financial expert. All the members
of the party were smiling and seemed
in good spirits.
The delegation alighted from the
train at the Noisy-Le-Roi station and
entered automobiles for Versailles.
Confcrs With Scheidemann.
Paris, May 24.-f fHavas)-Count
Won Brockdorff- head of the
German peace mission, and his col
league conferred yesterday at Spa
with Philip Scheidemann Matthias
Erzberger. Bernhard Dernburg and
Count Won Bernstorff. In the evening
Count Won Brockdorff- -Rantzau left for
Versailles. and the members of the
German government started for Ber-
lin.
1t was announced Friday night that
the treaty to be presented to Austria
would be considered at a plenary ses-
sion next Tuesday and would be laid
before the Austrian delegation prob
ably Wednesday.
Austrian Army to $4,000.
The council of four today considered
the military terms as framed by Mar
shall Foch, commander in chief of the
allied armies; General Diaz, supreme
commander of the Italian army, and
other military leaders. Austria's for
midable army of upward of a million
men, (which was second only to that OF
Germany, is reduced by the treaty to
5000 men; virtually all military
supplies would be surrendered or de-
stroyed and further military produc-
tion abolished.
The naval terms are similarly
sweeping, all warships being surren-
dered and Austria's position as naval
power terminated.
Break Trust After June IS.
The treaty will be signed by the al
/ lied and German delegates between
June 10 and 15-or the armistice will
Ibe broken-was the forecast in peace
circles today.
| The Germans are now expected tc
| hand the allies their counter proposals
| by May 20.
/ The present indications are that the
allies will take four or five days Il
study the German counter proposal:
/ before replying and will then allow
| the Germans about the same time il
which to make up their minds abou
/ signing. ----.
A report understood to have beer
forwarded to the United States yester
day that Karl KautZky. one of tn,
| leaders of the German independen
| Socialists was in Versailles to confer
with the enemy delegates, was denied
today by the French liaison mission
Much Work Yet to Do.
The American delegation has pre-
pared a memorandum showing tn,
status of affairs before the peace con
ference on the conclusion of the Aus
| trian treaty. ----...
This discloses that a foTmida BIZ
| amount of business is still to be trans
acted. besides the Turkish and Bul
| garian treaties, covering the who'll
| range of inter-allied subjects. Th'
I memorandum runs thru many page
! with scores of headings. 1t leaves NJ
doubt that the conference will con
tinue for a considerable time after tht
treaties have been signed and Presi
/ dent Wilson has left, it being expected
| that the other American members viii
remain to consider matters still re
! Quiring attention.