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Show MJSTRIAN PEACE ENVOYS ON WAY TO VERSA ILLES; GERMANS BITTER AT TERMS IMPOSED BY ALLIES Partners of Teutons in World War Now to Face the Music; Pacts Nearing Completion. No Reply Yet Made by Berlin to Drastic Impositions Im-positions by Victorious Powers . in Treaty. PARIS, May 8. It Is expected the United States will be asked to become the mandatory for Armenia. The indications are that President Wilson will submit the matter to congress. The French foreign office received re-ceived information late today that the Austrian peace delegation had left Vienna and would reach. St. Germain probably tomorrow. PARIS, May 8. (iiy tho Associated Tress.) The council of four, with Premier Pre-mier Orlando of Italy present, began today to-day to arrange the program for tho presentation pres-entation of peace terms to tho Austrian, Austri-an, Hungarian and Bulgarian delegates. The Austrian treaty has begun to tako form. Portions of it already have been drafted. It appears that instead of Germany being be-ing requiro'l to pay the entlro Indemnity demanded by the allies, a considerable sum will bo demanded of Austria, the estimate of this sum at present being 5,000,000,000 crowns. COUNCIL AT WORK ON OTHER TREATIES. This indemnity provision, and the delimitation of tho frontiers of tho new state, will be the main features of tho treaty now In making. 1'rovision 1m to be made for dividing Austria-Hungary's pre-war debt ameng tho new status formed from territory formerly belonging belong-ing to that empire. The frontiers between German Austria and Italy and probably the Adriatic settlement set-tlement will also figure In tho Austrian treaty. Intimations reaching the peace conference confer-ence from Versailles lead to the belie! that two or three members of the Gorman Gor-man peaeo delegation probably will return re-turn to Germany to consult their government, govern-ment, the others remaining at cr-sailles. cr-sailles. Germany lias nut yet submitted ai;y communication with regard to the pcacg treaty. All the exchanges between the delegation delega-tion at Versailles ami the homo government govern-ment are belns; kept secret. HUNS ARE BITTER; REGARD TERMS HARSH. A copy of the treaty In well on ltd way to Berlin. A fJcrmau courier left ui a o'clock last night bearing It, with Count tirockdorff-Ilantzaj'a J'irst report on tho negotiations. The German delega t on to the oraeo congress complained hit.terly this morning morn-ing to one of thn French liaison officers of the unexpected Jiuirdineto of tho conditions con-ditions of peace. The delftgalos said thny had expected from the newspaper reports that tho demands de-mands In many respect :j would be far-reaching, far-reaching, but were not prepared for 1 1m tnns as actually Jjiij down in tho printed print-ed copy ot the document. TREATY TERMS ARE SHARPLY DISCUSSED .BY LONDON EDITORS T,r .N'I"x.X. May 8. Tho peace l onnH, whilo receiving conoid er:i hie approval from Jilmost the. entire London pref:.;, d not cKi'.-ipo from hliarp criticism u certain cer-tain points. The objections center mainly main-ly on the oueMiun of financial compen-t;it compen-t;it ion from iJermany. The Morning Post finds it difficult to say whether iho trenly f.s gnocl or bad. becau.'-e i the complex it y ;i ni im rie; ry of tho terms, but i., cmpliai ;e in dr-J;i r-ing r-ing that the value nf the treaty depends upj tie power 'o enforce it. "as ijer many certain;,- will not accept. It except uii'U r duress." Thr. I 'aily .Ma.il f-;.rs that Great Brit-fiiri Brit-fiiri v. i)i find the t rim; cry far .short, of the piedgt-s made by 1 'rem.er lAo-- d G-o-u-e. ii ;olds: "if the sum ma ry actually rpres.-m u lb" et. i'fie provision:-: arc cod nn the :u ; I: t a rv a nd na v.) 1 side, bin da n'rerouslv full of loopholes on the financial side." The t re-1 y is fb-NTibed bv the I aily (Continued on Pago 2, Column G ) GOiCIL OF FH HEADY l II ALLIES (Continued from Pae One.) Telegraph as being stern and stringent throughout, although without a trace of the brutal exercise of mere victorious force. The treaty embodies the most severe sentence ever passed upon a great nation, na-tion, the Daily Nvw sny. and continues: "Germ 3 ny is ham ieui'iod and in irons from top to toe. tho appealed to force and imift take the confeu uences." The heaviest part of tiie sentence, tho News adds, is contained in the economic and financial terms. "We demand." it continues, "both the srMden eggs and tho corpse of tiie goose that. would lay them. It is hurdly a n cxaggerai ion to say that Germany is first stripped na ked and is then Lold to turn out Iwr ro-keis." The Herald, the labm- organ, roundly denounces The wlmle treaty, saying: "There is no hour.;- h-ft for any us. ''!" k:icue cf mi ions is a body without S'-ul. President Wiit-nn has he n beaten. 1 1 -i forced public aeceniance of h ia h -gii ideah-; on the other powers, but tlv-y have bernon him secretly. He oimp'"r,uii:-cd on es: eut ial.. a nd, therefore. the d "tut Is hav gone aprray. From the moment he abandoned the " first of the fourteen points he abandoned them all." |