The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-21

of the medc heirlooms for Modena, a "Virgini' by Andrew Del Sarto, and three manuscripts; for Palermo, twelfth century objects made for the Norman kings; for Naples 9S manuscripts carried off in 171S for Belgium various objects and documents removed in 1794; for Po- land a gold cup of King Ledislaus W, removed in 1772, and for Czecho-Slovakia various documents and historical manu- scripts removed from the Royal chateu of Prague.
 Paragraph 9-Financial: The first charge upon all the assets and revenues of Aus tria shall be the costs arising under the present treaty. including, in order Of priority, the costs of the armies of oc- cupation, reparations and other charges specifically agreed to and with certain exceptions as> granted by the reparations commission for payment for imports. l Austria must pay the total cost of the armies of occupation from the armistice 1 of November 3, 1918, so long as maintain ed and may export no gold before May l l, 1921, without consent of the reparations | commission.
 l Each of the states to which Austrian territory if transferred and each of the states arising out of the dismemberment of Austria, including the republic of Aus | tr1a, shall assume part of the Austrian pre-war debt specifically secured on rail- | amount to be fixed by the reparations commission on the basis of the value of the property so transferred. 1 Similar, the unsecured bonded pre- 1 war debt of the former empire shall be | distributed by the reparations commits sion in the proportion that the revenues for the three years before the war of | the separated territory bore to those of the empire, excluding Bosnia and Her ] zegovina.
 | No territory formerly part of the ern- pire, except the Republic of Austria, shah | carry with it an obligation in respect of | the war debt of the former Austrian government, but neither the governments | of those territories nor their nationals shall have recourse against another | including Austria, in respect of war debt 1 bonds held within their respective ter ] ritories by themselves or by their na- l tonals.
 The war debt held outside the former empire shall be charged on the republic of Austria alone, All war securities shall ! be stamped within two months with the stamp of the state taking them up re- placed by certificates and settlement | made to the reparations commission. The currency notes of the former Austro-H Hungarian bank circulating in the separated territory shall be stamped within two months by the new govern
 
 their own stamp, replaced within twelve months by new currency and turned over within fourteen months to the re- parations commission The bank itself shall be liquidated as from the day after the signature of the treaty by the re- paratiOns commission.
 States to which these interests are transferred and states arising ~fpom the dismemberment of Austria shall acquire all property within their territories or within the old Austrian government or that of the former royal families The value is to be assessed by the repara- tions commission and credited to Austria on the reparaton account.
 Property of predominant historic inter- est to the former kingdoms of Poland, Bohemia, Croatia, Slavonia, Dalmatia. Bosnia, Herzegovina, the Republic of Ragua, the Reventan republic or the Episcopal prncipalities of Trent and Bressanone may be transferred without payment
 ANNOUNCES RIGHTS
 Austria renounces all rights as o.-all international. financial or commercial organizations in allied countries, Ger many, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey or the former Russian empire. She agrees to appropriate on demand of the repara- tions commission, any rights of her na- tionals in any public utility or concession in these territories, in separated dis tricts and in mandatory territories, to transfer them to the commission within six months and to hold herself respon- sible for indemnifying her nationals so disposed.
 She also agrees to deliver within one month the gold deposited as security for the Ottoman debt, renounce any benefits accruing from the treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Ltovsk, and transfer to the allied and associated governments all claims against her former allies.
 Financial adjustments. such as those relating to banking and insurance com panies, savings banks. postal savings banks, land banks or mortgage com panies in the former monarchy neces- sitated by the dismemberment of the monarchy and the resettlement of pub lie debts and currency shall be regu- lated by agreement between various governments, failing which the repara- tions commission shall appoint an Arbi- trator or arbitrators. whose discussion shall he final.