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Show GERMAN STATE i I j a - I I President Wilson Has Been ! . Notified of the Birth of New Country. BERNE, Oct. 31 The German state of Austria has been created by act of the German national council of Austria and a note to President Wilson Wil-son notifying him of this action has! been drawn up and approved at a full meeting of the council. The slate claims all territory of old Austria where the majority of the population is German. BERNE, Oct. 31 Tho Hungarian diet, at a joint meeting yesterday, adopted a motion declaring that the constitutional relations between Hungary Hun-gary and Dalmatia, Slavonla, and Flume had ceased to exist, according to the Hungarian correspondence bureau. bur-eau. A summary of the contents of the note, which was first drafted by the executive committee of the council, is given by the olllcial Vienna correspondence correspon-dence bureau. Tho newly created slate, tho note sets forth, according to this summary, demands that its representatives represen-tatives be admitted to participation in tho peace negotiations. The new state recognizes the independence inde-pendence of the Jugo-Slav and Czecho-Slav states. It claims for itself Moravia and Silesia. It appeals to President Wilson to give the German I nation the right to dispose of Itself. oo |