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Show Council Claims Constitution Violates Treaty of Versailles. PARIS, Sept. 2. The supreme council of the peace conference decided today to : send a note in forceful terms to the Ger- j man government pointing out the contra- j dicfion with Lhe Versailles treaty of the ; provision in the new German constitution providing for the representation of Aus- . tria in the German reichsrath. The coun- : cil demands the suppression of the article within a fortnight, declaring that otherwise other-wise the allies will be compelled to undertake un-dertake a further occupation of the left bank of the Rhine. The article objected to, article 61 of the German constitution, as in conflict with article SO of the German peace treaty forbidding German interference In Austrian Aus-trian affairs. Article St) of the Versailles treaty reads: "Germany acknowledges and will respect re-spect strictly . the independence of Austria within the. frontiers which may be fixed in a treaty between that state and the principal allied and associated powers; she agrees that this independence shall be inalienable, except with the consent of the council of the league of nations." PARIS, Sept. 2. The text of the note to Germany will be handed to the German delegation at Versailles; this afternoon and will be made public tomorrow. Captain Andre Tardieu, speaking for government during the debate in the chamber of deputies this afternoon on ratification of the German peace treaty, said the French war losses constituted 26 per cent of the men mobilized. Fifty-seven Fifty-seven per cent of all men with the colors under 31 years of age were killed. The supreme council, according to the Echo de Paris, considered th1 question of racial minorities in Serbia and their equality with others in economic matters. mat-ters. The question of unwarranted interference inter-ference In their internal affairs lias been raised by some of the smaller nations in this connection. In order to avoid affronting Serbia In this respect. France, the newspaper adds, has proposed that such protection apply only to new Serbian territory and not to Serbia as constituted before the war. The supreme council today discussed the failure of Rumania to make written responses to the council's notes. It 4s likely the council will send an admiral in the near future with an emphatic note demanding an immediate response by Rumania to the council's communications. The Aegean seaport, access to which the allies have decided to give Bulgaria under the peace treaty, is Dedeagatch. to- gether with the railway leading to that port. i COPFNTTAGFN. Sept. 2. As a result of negotiations at Versailles it has been decided that Germanv within the next six months shall deliver -0.000.000 tons of coal j to France, as compared with the 43.000,-' 000 tons provided for by the terms of the ; peace treaty, a German official statement received here pays. If Germany's total production exceeds the present level of about tOS.000,000 tons annually, t!0 per cent of the extra production up to 12S,-UOO.OOO 12S,-UOO.OOO shall be delivered to the entente, and 50 ppr cent of any extra production beyond that amount until the figure pro- , vided for in the peace treaty is reached. BlRT.IN, Sunday. Aug 31. Baron Rad-, 1 vennzky, brother-in-law of former Hungarian Hun-garian premier Count. Stcnhen Tisza, has filed charges with the police at Budapest Buda-pest against Count Michael Karolyi, also a former premier, alleging that Count Karolyi agitated for the murder of Count Tisza'and participated in the crime, according ac-cording to a Budapest dispatch to the Zeitung. Bp la Pzanto, people s commissary for martial affairs during the soviet regime in Mungarv, is reported to have been arrested ar-rested near Lake Flatten, and it is said a huge sum of money belonging to the Austro-Hungarian bank was found in his possession. |