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Show AUSTRIAN REPUBLIC IS HUMBLED AND ITS POWER GONE Yesterday s ceremony at St. Germain brings to a close three months oT negotiation nego-tiation between tho Austrian republic and the allied and associated powers. An incomplete draft of the conditions of peaco was handed the Austrian delegates dele-gates at St. Germain on June 2, the reserved re-served sections, relating to the military, mili-tary, financial reparation and some boundary features of the treaty, being presented on July 20. The Austrian government gov-ernment laid its counter proposals before be-fore the peace conference last month and tho answer to the Austrian delegation delega-tion was made on September 2. China, as has been indicated, was a signatory of the Austrian treaty. The signature for her was affixed by Lou Tseng Tsiang, minisler for foreign affairs af-fairs and head of the peace delegation. delega-tion. Territory in East. Tho Austrian republic, representatives of which signed the treaty today, is very different from the proud Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian onipire of 19 1 4. The former provinces of Bohemia and Moravia and a part of the duchy of Tesclicn now form the republic of Czecho-Slovakia. The remainder of Teschen and most of Galicia have been incorporated into Poland. Tho new Ukrainian republic takes certain sections in eastern Galicia and the former Austrian crown land of Bukowina. Hungary has separated from Austria along tho historic boundary bound-ary between those portionB of .the former for-mer empire, but has herself lost parts of the province of Transylvania which havo been awarded to Human ia. On the south the provinces of Ca-rinthia, Ca-rinthia, Dalmatia, Carniola, Croatia and Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as parts of Styria, are formed in conjunction with Serbia into the new Jugo-Slav kingdom. Parts of Tyrol are taken over by Italy, the boundaries of which are also extended so as to include in-clude most of the Istrian peninsula and a strip along the western frontier of the province of Carinthia. All therefore that remains of the former for-mer empire is what is known as German Ger-man Austria, including upper and lower Austria ana parts or .styria ana 01 Tyrol. Annexation Forbidden. Since the close of. hostilities there has been a movement afoot by which Austria would be annexed by Germany. By one of the most important clauses of the treaty signed today this is forbidden. for-bidden. The treaty does not stipulate an exact ex-act sum to be paid in indemnities, but this amount will be fixed by the reparations repa-rations commission on or before May, 1921, the commission also being empowered em-powered to determine the details of the payments, which will extend over a period of thirty years. In addition to paying indemnity, Austria Aus-tria must also replace, ton for ton, all ships lost by the allies through the activities ac-tivities of the Austrian navy during the war and physically restore invaded areas. She is also to deliver up to allied al-lied countries works of art and objects of historic value which were carried away by the Austrians during the conflict. con-flict. Austria's army is reduced to 30,000 men on a purely voluntary basis. The entire Austrian naval fleet is to be Jianded over to the allies. Questions relative to the disposition of the city of Runic are not settled in the Austrian treaty, but Austria renounces re-nounces in favor of the allied and associated as-sociated powers all her Tights and titles over territories formerly belonging to her, which, though outside the new-frontiers new-frontiers of Austria, have not at present pres-ent been assigned to any state. |
