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Show ---i-i Hi y'-y?5,-: 1 Italian soldiers reconstructing lailwnys in the Trentino destroyed during the war. 2 General Mangin, commander of the French army of occupation, reviewing his troops in Sangerhausen, Germany. 3 Australian troops passing Australia house in London, on Anzac day. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Peace Terms for Austria Are Prepared Pre-pared by the Allied Delegates Dele-gates at Paris. GERMANS STILL PROTESTING Ebert and Scheidemann Insist Treaty Must Not Be Signed, and Allies Get Ready for Further Action Kolchak Plans to Crush Soviet Armies. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The allied peace delegates at Paris were occupied last week mainly in preparing pre-paring to hand out to Austria what is coming to her, and in listening to the wails, official and unofficial, of the Germans over the treaty that awaits their signature. Austria's delegates, headed by Chancellor Chan-cellor Karl Renner, were received and housed at St. Germain. They were treated with a good deal more cordiality cordial-ity than were the Germans at Versailles, Ver-sailles, and were given quarters in pleasant villas that overlook the Seine valley and Paris, with no high fences or sentries' to restrict their movements. move-ments. In return, the Austrians appeared ap-peared in good humor and hopeful of lenient treatment, and seemed to appreciate ap-preciate the good nature displayed by the cosmopolitan crowd of journalists and others that met them. Chancellor Chancel-lor Renner spoke in German but explained ex-plained that this was because he was unable to speak French, his courtesy in this contrasting with the behavior of Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau at Versailles. In responding to the greetings of the allies' representatives he said : "I hope I may go away with as joyful a heart as I bring." Other members of the delegation intimated, none too strongly, that they would not be able to sign the treaty unless It provided for the union of German Bohemia Bo-hemia and German Tyrol with Germany. Ger-many. It is assumed they will accept the pact even if that annexation is not permitted. In some ways the treaty with Austria, Aus-tria, it is said, will be like that with Germany. Austria is to lose her entire en-tire navy, according to the reports, and there is little doubt that when her new boundaries are delimited she will find that her southern frontier is push- ' ed back so far that Italy will have not only the Trentino and Trieste, but also all the strategic passes and heights in the Alps which the Italians say are necessary to their future security. se-curity. This Is in accordance with the secret treaty of London. In the matter of reparation Austria of course will be required to pay certain sums, but these will be small in comparison with those demanded from the Germans. Ger-mans. The clauses concerning waterways water-ways are much like those in the German Ger-man treaty. The breaking up of the Austro-IIungarlan empire has resulted result-ed in reducing Austria to a rather small fourth rate power without direct access to the sea, and it is the aim of nt least some of the allied nations to keep her in that condi'ion. By herself her-self she Is comparatively harmless; united with Germany, she would help j largely to make up a nation that might again threaten the peace of the world. Von P.rockdorlT-Hantzau and his 1 colleagues on the German delegation, together with their numerous experts, have been as busy as bees formulating formulat-ing objections to the German treaty. Several of these were transmitted to the allies last week and most of them were rather summarily answered, and dismissed. Those formal objections were considered mere preliminary skirmishes, and meanwhile the Germans Ger-mans were preparing elaborate counter-proposals. These, it is said, would contain two dominant diplomatic features fea-tures an exaltation of the league T nations Idea, and a vigorous demand that there be a "pure application" of Wilson's fourteen points. The latter Is designed to win favor In America 8iJ to create a breach between the Americans and their allies. A strong play also will be made to secure the sympathy of Socialists all over the world for what the Hun leaders call the German Socialist state. One of the most seriously taken of the German objections was to the treaty terms concerning labor reforms, and with it was sent a draft of an international agreement on labor law. To this the allies replied at length, showing that the treaty fully covered all the points raised and that its provisions pro-visions were more satisfactory than those in the German proposition, wherefore the allied and associated governments are "of the opinion that their decisions give satisfaction to the anxiety which the German delegate professes for social justice and insure the realization of reforms which the working classes have more than ever a right to expect after the cruel trial to which the world has been subjected during the last five years." Yet another German note dealt with the economic aspect of the peace terms, declaring that If enforced they would bring death to "many millions of people in Germany, all the more quickly as the nation's health is already al-ready broken by the blockade." While these diplomatic exchanges were going on, President Ebert, Chancellor Chan-cellor Scheidemann and others were inflaming the German people with violent vio-lent denunciations of the treaty and declarations that Germany never would submit to it. All of them harped harp-ed on the alleged abandonment of the fourteen points by the allies, and President Pres-ident Wilson was bitterly attacked as a traitor to mankind and a weakling who has betrayed the trust that had been reposed In him by the people ' of Germany. President Ebert told his applauding hearers that he feared an outbreak of "psychic furor teutoni-cus" teutoni-cus" within a few days and that the wrath of the soul of the people when it reached the boiling point would know no bounds as a result of the deep disappointment and anger born of fury and just indignation. The position taken by the government govern-ment heads is supported by all factions fac-tions except the independent Socialists Social-ists Haase's crowd who, while declaring de-claring the treaty oppressive, advise that it be signed. This may be explained ex-plained hy the probability that if the treaty is signed the present government govern-ment will be forced to give way to one made up of independent Socialists. The protests of the Germans against the pact and their harping on the fourteen four-teen points also were indorsed by a convention of Socialists in Paris and by the Women's International Conference Con-ference for Permanent Peace, in session ses-sion at Zurich. The resolution adopted adopt-ed hy the women was proposed by Mrs. Philip Snowden of England and seconded by Miss Jeannette Rankin, former member of congress from Montana. Mon-tana. Despite protests, denunciations and wailing, It was still the opinion of the well-informed in Paris that the Germans Ger-mans would sign the treaty before the expiration of the period of grace allowed al-lowed them. The possibility that they would persist in their refusal, however, how-ever, has been amply provided for and the plans of the allies in that contingency con-tingency are complete. Marshal Foch already has been sent to the Rhine-land Rhine-land hy the council of four to take such military action as may be necessary neces-sary and the council also has made Its plans for the Immediate re-Imposition of the blockade on Germany. At Co-blcnz Co-blcnz General Pershing said the American Amer-ican army of occupation was ready to do Its part, whatever that might be. Another thing that occupied the attention at-tention of the allied foreign minister was arrangement, for maintaining order or-der In Schleswig after the Germans evacuate that territory. Probably all the allied naval force, In which the United States, Great Britain and Franco will join, will be stationed at Flemsberg and several battalions of infantry landed to police the country. Negotiations between the Italian delegation and the other allies over the settlement of the Adriatic dispute were still In progress when this was written. "In progress," however, may be misleading, for they did not seem to be getting ahead much.. The Italians Ital-ians were said to bo yirUling as t some of the clauses of the London treaty, but President Wilson, according accord-ing to reports, was as adamant in regard re-gard to Fiume. Anyhow, the plan to internationalize that port for several years had not proved acceptable. The Italians have landed large military forces at 'Sebenico and Zarg ports on the Dalmatian coast between Fiume and Spalato. Appeals made by the Italians to America not to assume the role of an oppressor of "millions of Italians desiring fs reunite with their mother countr and at the same time America "nd all things American are being rp-dled throughout Italy. Premier Paderewski, returning from Paris to Warsaw, was greeted first by an attempt on his life by two bolshev-ists bolshev-ists and then by a mammoth demonstration demon-stration by his fellow countrymen, who are grateful for his efforts at the peace conference. The Poles are highly high-ly pleased by the placing of the free city of Danzig under their control instead in-stead of that of Germany, though they wanted to be granted the port outright. out-right. The Silesian boundary settlement settle-ment also suits them, but not the Si-lesians, Si-lesians, who are said to be planning an armed revolt against annexation to Poland and asking aid from Germany. The Poles and the Ukrainians are said to have agreed to quit fighting each other, though later reports told of a defeat of the former by the latter in the vicinity of Lemberg. In eastern Russia Admiral Kolchak, head of the Omsk government, is making mak-ing plans for a great advance designed to establish communication with the Archangel forces on the north and those of General Denekine on the south and to effectually crush the soviet armies. As a starter ho has captured Samara, an important city. He says he will move in the direction of Moscow and that the capture of that bolshevik capital will be his chief ' aim. What he asks from the allies is armament, munitions, material and clothing. After his final victory, he declares, a national assembly will be called to which he willhand over his authority. The bolshevik! have met further defeats at the hands of Pet-lura's Pet-lura's Ukrainians, and revolts against their rule have broken out in the governments gov-ernments of Kiev, Tchernigov and Poltava. Tchitcherin, bolshevist foreign minister, min-ister, has announced that the bolshevik! bolshe-vik! will not consent to stop hostilities as a condition of the provisioning of Russia by neutrals, and the anti-bol-shevlst leaders declare that this plan, proposed by Doctor Nansen, is no solution so-lution of the Russian question. China Is still holding out on the peace treaty because of the Shantung clause, and her delegates recently received re-ceived warnings from the people of that territory that they would sign the pact at the peril of their lives. Roumania also has joined those nations na-tions that have a grievance. Her delegates dele-gates threaten to bolt the peace conference con-ference unless the decision of the council of ten to divide Banat between Roumania and Serbia is modified. Roumania's record since the outbreak of the war has not been such as lo entitle her to the special consideration of any nation or group of nations. The plans for the trial and punishment punish-ment of the former kaiser are not going smoothly. They contemplate the assumption of the role of complainant com-plainant by some one of the allied nu-tiens, nu-tiens, and it was presumed Belgium would so act. But Belgium, perhaps because it is a kingdom, declines, and no other has yet volunteered. Holland Hol-land has not decided to surrender William Wil-liam for trial, the Dutch governnunt contending that at present the question ques-tion concerns only Germany and the entente. One of the most Impressive ceremonies ceremo-nies Incident to the war was the reception recep-tion by the British of the remains of Edith Cave!, the nurse the Germans murdered In Belgium, and the public funeral services In Westminster abbey. High ollicials and representatives of foreign governments attended, as well as a great throng of citizens, and the streets around the abbey were filled with an Immense throng of those who sought to do reverent homage 'h bravu woman. |