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Show LEAGUE AUSTRIA Treaty Leaves Future of Country in Hands of League of Nations. MANY DISSATISFIED Vienna Doomed as Great Capital and Com-j Com-j mercial Center. PARIS. Saturday. Aug 30. (By Tho Associated Press) The Austrian peace treaty as now virtually completed complet-ed bv the supreme council for subm'.s -.ion to tho Austrian plenipotentiaries, leaves the future of Austria very largely large-ly iu the hands of the league of nations na-tions The league that is, would oe able lo decide whether Austria shall 00 permitted to join Germany and as France is opposed to such a union, as r.re Switzerland and many other coin-tries, coin-tries, there would appear to be little chance of Austria's securing perruis-tsion perruis-tsion to terminate her existence as a j separate state, should she so desire in future. There seems to be a feeling of general gen-eral dissatisfaction In peace conference confer-ence circles with the treaty, but the council hail agreed today on virtually all sections because there is a generil weariness with discussion Vienna See.ns Doomed. ' Under the terms of the treaty Vienna with its 2.000.000 inhabitant.-, seemed doomed to lapse into comparative compara-tive commercial insignilicance as there is a population of only 4.000,000 within with-in the country outside the city to sup-: sup-: port the capital, while w ith Jugoslavia. Jugo-slavia. Czecho slovakia and Hungary existing as separato powers, Vienna can hardly hopo to recover the bJ8l ness formerly from there to its doois. If internal ionallai ion of Kluui- were provided for, as is expected by many quarters, it is pointed out Austria's shrunken commercial interests would thereby be protected 10 some extent, but it is generally thought that Vienna (is doomed as a great capital and must inevitably relapse into a residential city. Forceful Note Sent. PARIS, Sepl 2. The supreme coun-Icil coun-Icil of the peace conference decided to-day to-day to send a note in forceful terms ; to the German government pointing lout the contradiction with which tue Versailles treaty of the provision in the new Cerman constitution providing provid-ing for the representation of Austria In the German reichsrath. The council demands the suppression suppres-sion of the article within a fortnigh. 'declaring that otherwise the allies will jbe compelled lo undertako a furthe.-I furthe.-I occupation of the left bank of X'jc Rhine. I The article objected to is Article 61 tf the German constitution as in conflict con-flict with Article 80 of the German peace treaty forbidding German interference inter-ference in Austrian affairs. I Article 80 of the Versailles treaty J reads "Germany acknowledge.-, and will respect re-spect strictly the rndepeudeuce of Austria within the frontiers which I may be fixed in a treaty between that I slate and the principal allied and associated as-sociated powers; she agrees th.it tnis independence shall be Inalienable, . 1 ept wltb the consent of the council of the league of nations Letter to Austria. I PARIS. Sept. 2 The Austrian (treaty will be accompanied with a covering cov-ering letter which, according to the I forecasts, seta tOltb Austria's responsibility responsi-bility in aiding to bring about the war and points out that sho therefore i i could not obtain treatment similar lo I that accorded Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia. It is declared to recrg- ! nise, however, that because of her j small extent Austria will need econ-1 iomic and financial help to insur. bei observance. No official suniman in which territorial terri-torial changes In the peace treaty haa been given, but reports from conference confer-ence circles from time to time hae indicated that several alterations in tho original provisions have already been made. It is declared that the treaty did not provide for a settlement of the Flume controversy at present. As to the political future of Austria, however, it Is known that under the treaty the league of nations is to hae la very largo say. For one thing ibe decision whether Austria shall be allowed al-lowed to join Germany would be lefl with the league, of such permission l ein given, however, there would .p-pear .p-pear to be littlo chance as France is j known to be opposed to such a union as nrc Switzerland and many other countries. There seems to be a general gen-eral feeling of dissatisfaction in peac conference circles with the treaty-New treaty-New Cabinet Reactionary. VIENN A, .Monday. Sept. 1. (By The Associated Press.) The press of this city describes the new Hungarian cab -net as undeservedly reactionary" and speculates upon the reception wh'ch will be given it by the entente anu tho probable course of Hungarian Socialists So-cialists and workingmen. Count Osaky, the foreign minister, was formerly a diplomatic officer and 1 a member of the entourage of former for-mer Emperor Charles In Swltzerlan 1 He Is said to be still in that country. Reports from Budapest say that tin-support tin-support of the new cabinet is gradual ly falling away and predict that Pari has or will Indicate its disfavor of lh present government and insist upon 1 more popular cabinet. Vienna pap i -continue to print lists of Jewish fU tlms of pogroms despite the Hungarian Hungar-ian government's denials that the |