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Show Austria Declares Inability to Meet Demands of Treaty I COPENHAGEN", Thursday. Aug. 7. (By The Associated Press.) A j summary of the Austrian note presented pre-sented to the allied peace mission at St. Germain, France, yesterday, has been received here from Vienna. "If German Austria's territorial demands de-mands are fulfilled to the minimum extent maintained tor in the appendix j to the note." says the summary, "German "Ger-man Austria will make efi()rts to bedews be-dews sh ran live Independentl) and in peace in this territory She expects ex-pects the league of nations will bear her in her hour of distre c "On the other hand German Austria still is firmly convinced that the enon Omic burdens imposed upon her by the peace treaty cannot really he . arried out and that, it thej had not substantially substan-tially lightened, she la hound to collapse "It will be impossible for the nexl few months to deliver milking cows I and cattle as German Austria's children chil-dren are perishinc for lack of meat and milk German-Austria must al-, al-, low herself to be placed under the u-tente u-tente powers' financial rontrol. but she expects the repatriation commit tee will acl With the consideration de-i de-i manded b her desperate position and grant the necessary credits to obtain I raw materials and foodstuffs." The note urges amendment v. iih a i view to investing a commission with I plenary powers, regarding all economic econ-omic and financial peace condition.-, it then argues regarding "the unjust and unequal division of old Austria s debts amonf; the stales which succeeded suc-ceeded it and the injustice of stipulations stipu-lations regarding war loans " "It seems self-evident." the note continues, "that all states in what was formerly Austria-Hungary should divide the debts of the old monarchy. Apart from the bank note debt, clauses in the peace treaty show a burden of debt for German-Austria or some forty billion marks. Thus two-thirds two-thirds of the entente debt of the Austrian Aus-trian states, without the note debr, is placed on the shoulders of one-fifth one-fifth of the former population ' The note proposes, as in the case of pre war debts, that all debts shall be divided by the reparations commission com-mission according to the ability ol ll dividual states to meet them. A similar simi-lar proposal is made recardinp Ausiro-Hungarian Ausiro-Hungarian bank notes held abroad I The note concludes that a reference I I to Bottling accounts between German- 1 Austria and othei states of the io l j raer monarchv, declaring that stipu- I ! lations not capable of fulfillment 1 j must be removed and these question: J regulated by the reparations com- mission in order not to prolong the peai ' nosotjat ions "It would be indisputable value for J all parties," the note adds, "if tte m members of the German-Austrian j 'deputation were heard and called upon to give oral explanations before the j committees." The note is aeompanied b extens- ive proposals on territorial a"d po lit leal questions. |