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Show - REVISED PEACE TERMS DELIVERED TO AUSTRIANS ed - , . ALLIES ABE S KILLING ID ; TENDER 1 V Treaty Reminds Vienna . That Her Ultimatum I t Precipitated War, but. League Place Is Open, j i: 'Plea That Hapsburgsj ' ' i 1 and Their Satellites; j i , Alone Are Responsible j Is Brushed Aside. t ' - PARIS, Sept. Z. Rumania will i not sign the peaco treaty with r,,; Austria, according to Intransige-ant, Intransige-ant, because of a clause introduced r at the formal request of American 0 r delegates concerning ethnological c' minorities. u! Rumania also takes exception to j. a clause regulating treaties, coni- tai merce and railroad rates, Intran- on, sigeant says, considering that it (,j would be undignified for her to ac- 'l ' ccpt it. The newspaper adds that tr: the resignation of J. J. C. E;.'.;auo 1 as premier is imminent. i'l., PA IMS, Sept. - (I!y tl-o Associated ''icss.) Chancellor Karl Ken nor, head u' if the Austrian pejiec delegation. Jeft oni'lii fur Vienna with the revised icucc treaty which v as handed to Aus-ria Aus-ria lihn. lie indicated that he prob-I'IpIv prob-I'IpIv would ask for an extension of time, j1 , is the Austrian general assembly would acid on Satnrd.-jy and Sunday to dis- :uss t lie tonus, j.? The supreme council, it is announced, will extend llio tine, if Austria so Te-'" Te-'" (ucsts. In their covering letter, the al-lied al-lied inul associated powers explain the rt. impossibility of admitting that the peo-" peo-" I'lo of Austria do not share the rcspon-hii'ility rcspon-hii'ility of the government that pro- ol.od the war or that they are to escape ,,: making reparation to the utmost of 1 , their capacity. ; 1 IVE DAYS ARE ; (ilVEN I OK REPLY. a I nlil thc signing oi' the peace treaty, I'. Austria is considered an enemy state. t: (.'ireful consideration, it is declared, n ' lias been given to Ihe counter-proposals t "C de Austrians; anil with some modifications, modi-fications, which are noted, the text of ;li" treaty, as picscntcil today, must bo imishlori'd final. Five days are allowed iu 'or ihe Austrian answer. ,"i allied powers have studied the ' V 'run tiers of the future republic of Aus-'i'ria Aus-'i'ria t'riuii a historical, geographical, il r Ihnoloeiciil, economic and political (.J;oint of view: ami with the exception il,, I one point, mi modification has been '"(" ui'lc ill regard to frontiers. W 1,1 ,!'lining t ho boundary of Czcho-"' Czcho-"' ; lovakia. it is pointed out, they t,ave '1 to assure this stale a complete i"i''vstem of communication, and have M 'rei'ore departed from the historical i -rentier of the crown pf P.ohemia to f ssuie tt,..,t and cast communications of f.'Mt.miii.! mi in ,, iUM;.,IN; lu,lll0,. m' giou to give r.ohcmia a junction of , .-ie two large railroad lines supplying e;1 lis province. V' With respect to thc frontiers between i' '..stria and Hungary, ,,e allied and v- '-ociatod powers have desired to guar-t'c; guar-t'c; nice access to the sea of the Czccho- , l"vak siate. and have therefore pro-.r'' pro-.r'' 'ded that I'ressluirg should have its '''' murod by transit Hungarian as well a, Austrian ''"itorv. ;:;some CONCESSIONS 1 ;.-UlE GRANTED. K 1 "ticessions nre granted to Austria in 'n.-etion wi,h the Serb-Croat-Slovene l3u''- in K far that Kadkersburg is . .,iJ,;''i to the Austrians, also thc basin ,-t.. Marburg. Styria. is attached to the Iv -'7 lr''' -Slovene state, as previously ' "'rnnned. ic"-A most important change in the "' '(',','!' '''"":"'''" is a provision for na A" r.T-n possessing ,he tll b "K'onship. inherent in tor- , ..'. "k"'h f"s pari of -he terri- -T '" former' Austro-Uungarian ';' p'!-v- '1,:lH obtain. ip. fad,,, ,n li jj'MMon of AtKHHa. the national- j,', .mied on Page 17, Column 2.) HUES IE WILLING J TENDER AID (Continued From Page One.) ity of the state exercising sovereignty over such territory. The property of Austrian nationals in territory ceded to the allied powers is to l restored' to its owners free from any measure of liquidation or transfer taken since the armistice, and is guaranteed similar freedom from seizure or liquidation in the future. Contracts between Austrian nationals and persons who acquire, under the treaty, an allied nationality, are maintained main-tained without option of cancellation. Provisions are made to insure to Austria Aus-tria supplies of coal from Czecho-Slo-vakia and Poland, in return for supplies sup-plies of raw materials. The period within which Austria is obligated to give favored nation treatment treat-ment in its commercial relations vrith the allied and associated powers is reduced re-duced by the treaty from five to three years. The note transmitting the allied re-ply re-ply to the observations of the Austrian delegation on the conditions of peace, addressed to Karl Renner and signed by M. Clemenccau, as president of tho council, follows: Objections Answered. Draft of the covering letter: Tho allied and associated powers have given most careful consideration to the observations of the Austrian delegation on tho draft treaty of peace. The reply re-ply of the Austrian delegation objects to" the draft treaty on the grounds that in view of tho dissolution of the Aus-tro-Hungarian monarchy, Austria ought not to be treated as an enemy state at all, and that in consequence, she ought not to be made in any special way inheritor of responsibilities in regard to reparation, to which the Austro-Hun-garinn monarchy would undoubtedly be liable, did it still exist. "As these observations point to a funda mental misconception of the responsibilities responsibili-ties of the people of Austria, the allied and associated powers feel it necessary to state as briefly as may ba the principles which they consider must be applied to the settlement of the late war so far as Austria is concerned. The people of Austria, Aus-tria, together with their neighbors, the people of Hungary, bear in a peculiar degree de-gree responsibility for the calamities which have befallen Europe during the last five years. "The war was precipitated by an ultimatum ulti-matum presented to Serbia by the government gov-ernment at Vienna and requiring acceptance accep-tance within forty-eight hours of a series of demands which amounted to the destruction de-struction of the independence of a neighboring neigh-boring sovereign state. The royal jov-rrnment jov-rrnment of Serbia accepted within the prescribed time all the demands except those which involved the virtual surrender surren-der of its Independence. Action Led to War. "Yet, the then Austro-Hungarian government, gov-ernment, refusing all offers of a conference confer-ence of conciliation on the basis of that reply, immediately opened hostilities against Serbia, thereby deliberately setting set-ting light to a train which led directly to a universal war. "It is now evident that this ultimatum was no more than an insincere excuse for beginning a .war for which the late autocratic au-tocratic government at Vienna, in close association with the rulers of Germany, had long prepared and for which It considered con-sidered the time had arrived. The presence pres-ence of Austrian guns at the siege of lilege and Kamur is further proof, if proof were required, of the intimate association of the government of Vienna with the government of Berlin in its piot against public law aid the liberties of Europe. "The Austrian delegation appears to think that responsibility for these acts rested solelv on the Hapsburg dynasty and its satellites, and that by reason of the dissolution of that monarchy through the victory of the allies the people of Austria can escape responsibility for the deeds of the government, which was their own government and which had its home In their capital. Hapsburgs Supported." "Had the people of Austria in the years preceding endeavored to curb the militarist mili-tarist and domineering spirit by which the government of the Hapsburg monarchy mon-archy was animated; had they made any effective protest against the war, or refused re-fused to assist or support their ruler3 in prosecuting it, some attention might now be paid to this plea. But the fact that the war was acclaimed on its outbreak in Vienna, that the people of Austria were its ardent supporters from start to finish fin-ish and that they did nothing to disassociate disasso-ciate themselves from the policy of their government and its allies until they had been defeated in the field, makes it clear that, according to any canon of justice, they must be held to bear their full measure mea-sure of responsibility for a crime which has brought such misery on the world. "There is, however, a further fact to which the allied and associated powers feel bound to jioint. The Hapsburg system sys-tem became In its essence a system maintaining main-taining the ascendency of the German and Magyar peoples over a majority of the inhabitants of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. This ancient and effete autocracy, au-tocracy, with its militarist traditions, was maintained in existence through the vigorous vig-orous support of the inhabitants of Austria Aus-tria and Hungary because it gave to them a position of political and economic domination dom-ination over their fellow subjects. Racial Policy Fatal. "It was a policy of racial ascendency and oppression to which the people of Austria gave their steady support, which was one of the deeper causes of the war. It led to those irredentist movements along the frontiers of Austria and Hungary, which kept Europe in a ferment of unrest; it led to the growing dependence of Austria-Hungary on Germany, and consequently conse-quently to the subordination of the Austro-Hungarian policy to the German plans of domination, and, in the end, it led to a situation in which the rulers of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy could see no other way of preserving its own power than to set to work deliberately to destroy de-stroy the liberty of small and dependent nations. "In the opinion, therefore, of the allied and associated powers, it is impossible to admit the plea of the Austrian delegation that the people of Austria do not share the responsibility of the government which provoked the -war, or that they are to escape the duty of making reparation to the utmost of their capacity to those whom they and the government they sustained sus-tained have so grievously wronged. The principles upon which the draft treaty is based must, therefore, stand. "Until the signing of peace, the people of Austria are, and will remain, an enemy people; upon its signature they wdll become be-come a state with whom the allied and associated powers hope and expect to maintain friendly relations. Relations With New States. "(2) The Austrian delegation ha'e further protested against the arrangements arrange-ments under the treaty governing their relations with the new states formed out of the late Austro-Hungarian monarchy. 'The allied and associated powers feel bound to point out that the disabilities from which Austria will suffer will arise, not from the provisions of the treaty, but mainly from the policy of ascendency which its people have pursued in the past. Had the policy of Austo-Hungary been one of liberty and justice to all its peoples, peo-ples, the upper Danube states might have remained in friendly economic and political politi-cal unity. As it was, the policy of ascendency as-cendency produced one of the cruelest tragedies of the late war, when millions of the then subject peoples of Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary were driven under pain of death to fight against their will in an army which was being used to perpetuate their own service, as well as to compass the destruction of liberty in Europe. - "Many of these peoples protested against the war, and for their protests suffered confiscation, imprisonment or death,. Many more, who were captured or escaped, joined the armies of the allies and played their par in the war of liberation. libera-tion. But they are now, one and all, determined, de-termined, and rightly determined, to set themselves up as independent states. They will trust Vienna no more. The policy of ascendency has borne its inevitable inevi-table fruit in the fact of partition, and It is this partition which lies at the root of Austria's troubles today. Vienna was made the economic and political po-litical center of the empire; everything was artificially constructed there. Outlying Outly-ing districts and railways were starved in order that the capital might thrive. The breakup of Austria-Hungary, cutting these centralized Aliments in two can hardly fail to inflict the severest blows upon the state of Austria and its capital. But the dissolution of the monarchy, with its consequences, is the direct outcome of that fatal policy of domination for which the people of Austria are themselves principally prin-cipally to blame. "(3) The allied and associated powers, however, have no wish to .add to the hardships of Austria's position. On the contrary, they are anxious to do all In their power to assist her own people to accommodate themselves to their new position po-sition and to recover their prosperity, provided pro-vided always that it is not at the expense of the new states formed out of the late empire. "The breakup of tile monarchy has given rise to many difficult problems in the relations between the new states, which under the treaty are its heirs. It has been recognized as reasonable that the relations between the citizens of the succeeding suc-ceeding states should be regulated in certain cer-tain respects differently from the relations rela-tions between the citizens of Austria and those of other allied and associated powers, pow-ers, and, in view of the observations of the Austrian delegation, the allied and associated powers, while adhering to the goneral lines of the treaty, have made considerable modification in its economic provisions. The property of Austrian nationals na-tionals in territories ceded to the allied powers is to be restored to its owners free from any measure of liquidation or bans, forbidden since the armistice, and is guaranteed similar freedom from seizure or liquidation in the future. Contracts between Austrian nationals and persons wJio acquire, under the treaty, an allied nationality are maintained without option ot cancellation. Insure Coal Supplies. "Provision is made to insure Austria supplies of coal from Czecho-Slovakia and Poland, upon which she Is dependent, in return for reciprocal obligations to supply certain raw materials. Outstanding Outstand-ing questions affecting nationals of Austria, Aus-tria, which require settlement between Austria and its inheriting neighbors are to be regulated by separate conventions, and these conventions are to be drawn up by a conference to which Austria will be admitted on a footing of equality with the other states concerned. "Details of these and other concessions will be found in the annexed reply. Finally, Fi-nally, the reparation commission will be instructed to carry out the duties confided con-fided to It in a strictly humanitarian manner. It will have due regard to the vital Interests of the community and will permit any mitigations which it may consider required by the food situation in Austria. "(4) As regards the territorial limits established for the republic of Austria, the allied and associated powers are unable un-able to admit any modifications In the decisions already communicated. These decisions were arrived at after months of careful examination and the observations observa-tions furnished by the Austrian delegation delega-tion have been found to contain no arguments argu-ments which had not been considered by the conference. "The allied and associated powers endeavored en-deavored to determine the boundaries of the states formed out of the late Austro-Hungarian Austro-Hungarian monarchy in such an equitable way as to bring a lasting peace to central cen-tral Europe. Thus they have drawn for Szecho-Slovakia. the historical frontiers of the crown of Bohemia, and, so far as Austria is concerned, they have only departed from this frontier In two minor Instances where the economic Interests of the new state appeared, and still appear, ap-pear, to outweigh the claims of the Austrian Aus-trian republic. "In the case of Jngo-SIavia, the allied and associated powers have, so far as was possible, followed the admitted linguistic lin-guistic boundary. As regards Hungary, they have included within Austria certain cer-tain German-speaking districts hitherto included within the Hungarian frontier. "They believe that the frontiers now arranged are those which will best guarantee guar-antee the existence of all the peoples concerned, including Austria, without exposing ex-posing them to anarchy or internecine competition. "As regards Tyrol, the allied and associated as-sociated powers have been Impressed by I tho fact that for decades the Italian ; people have suffered from a menace de-! de-! liberately directed at their heart by the I retention in Austro-Hungarian hanils of military outpost? commanding the Italian Ital-ian plains. In thrsa circumstances thev ! h ive thought it best to accord to Italy l 1,10 natural frontier of the Alps, which i she has long demanded. I "f"') Tho allied and associated powers ; would f tinner remind the Aus'iian delegation dele-gation that tho treaty of pea,-0 makes special provisions for the promotion of small communities, such as Xew Austria. Aus-tria. It will no longer be possible for powerful empires to threaten with impunity im-punity the political and economic life of their lessrr neighbors. "T:ie clauses relating to ports and wmrrways guarantee to Austria under international sanction, access to the sea !v land and water. The labor clauses i ""''' h';';" n Presorve tho rights and raise t.ie slan.lanls of life for the working : pnpM.a;;on. The minority treaties will .the period a hove stipul.-i ; eil, the armistice armis-tice conflu'leil cm November 3, lull, sh;ill he consM.-rcl having t-rminat! il, :uH tho allied and H.sso. iai cd power s will take such ceps as liny icay jti(Ue nccess.-iry to impose their conditions." safpsruaj-d the political, religious and linguistic lin-guistic rights of the repuhlic's minorities, minori-ties, transferred to new sovereignty under un-der the treaty of pence. "The league of nations is not the only protestor of Austria's rights. The league, to which the allied and associated powers pow-ers hope that Austria will be admitted at an parly date, will not only protect the rights of ail signatories to the trtMy, but creates a mfans whrehy emli adjustments ad-justments as facts or rhangins circunt-atanoes circunt-atanoes may prove to be npcessarv, if the peace settlement itself can be pr-a-fully and lawfully mtJ.le. These ft-at :irs of the settlement proposed should not. be forgotten. "(t) In conclusion, the allied find associated as-sociated powers wish to make it r-ar that the modifications which thy hnve now made in tho draft treatv arr- fin.-n. They wish further to strife that if ih'-v have not replied specifically to all Th" points in the reply of the Austria n leic-cation, leic-cation, it Is not because thev have not taken them into careful consideration: nor must the absence of any r"piv he taken as a'qu:csnce or in appr.al r.f thf contentinnF; nor must th prcsr-nt rply be taken as an a-jt h.orl'a: ive interpretation inter-pretation of the f"t r-f the tr-a ty. "The tex t of t V.e treat y, v. " send you todav, follow inp "upon that of .Tilly TO la-st. which had a 'ready urvh r-trrine r-trrine considf-raMe chances sine the oriz-Inal oriz-Inal tN t of June 2. must be a p t "ri or reject d In the exart frm in wh hi: it is now dra:";''d. Cor,s"(i"ri',',y alh' and assoiat-d powers r"i'.jir" f'f.m the A'Jft rian '"'." en Mon w; rh in e ! of five da vs. r-r,;r r ir-c frm r'-f. f ' the pr-'S'-nt ron:mvni'-a f ion. a )., r.-i - ! tin Ir.fTntnij thn Y,n t!iev rre pi c- viard to s:g;i Vr.', frea'y a.- it ti--tv stands. s'-o- a t : is d' ;.. pa ' !o: i T' n f :-."fi the a i; d and a.- .-on;s : f . j -r. Hrran;"ni":i; will hp made for ; h'-irrmen'iTv- signature r.f ;fa.e at St r;tT. "::.::.-;-,.Ive. "In default of such declaration w'thdn |