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Show RENNER SPEEDS UP ACTION ON TREATY VIENNA, Friday, Sept. 6. (By the Associated Press.) Dr. Karl Kenner, head of the Austrian peace delegation, speeded speed-ed up consideration of the action to be taken by the national assembly with regard re-gard to the peace treaty when he arrived ar-rived here today from St. Germain, by saying it was his intention to start on the return journey to France on Sunday. Dr. Renner explained to the members of the cabinet certain clauses ln the peace treaty which the telegraphic summary sum-mary had not left clear. He also told his colleagues that the peace offered by the entente, although a hard one, was the best that could be expected under the circumstances. He urged immediate acceptance ac-ceptance of the conditions as the wisest policy, saying he placed hopes on the reparation ocmmisslons for modifications in the peace terms later. A Vienna dispatch dated Saturday announced an-nounced that the Austrian assembly, by a vote of 97 to 23, decided that Austria should Blgn the peace treaty, although groat protest was made against "the violation vio-lation of Austria's right of the free disposal dis-posal of herself." |