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Show AUSTRIAN TREATY TERMS DELIVERED DEFEATED NATION MUST PAY FOR AIDING BERLIN'S ATTEMPT TO THROTTLE WORLD. Complete Terms Demanded by Allies Handed to Delegation at Paris. Army Reduced to 30,000 on a Purely Voluntary Basis. Paris. Austria's army is reduced to .iO,Mjo men on a purely voluntary basis by one of the military terms of peace, which, together with the reparation clauses and a number of minor terms, V. ere banded to the Austrian delegates lit Saint (Jerniaine Sunday by M. imt-asta, imt-asta, secretary general of the peace conference, without ceremony. No definite repiuatiunal sum is fixed In the treaty, hut Austria is told that the extent, of her liabilities and the schedule of payments which will be extended over a period of thirty years will in- made known before May 1, 1020. Th(! commission in charge of Germany's Ger-many's reparations will have an Austrian Aus-trian section. Austria now has the complete terms and must submit her final "observations" "observa-tions" within fifteen days. The payment of a "reasonable sum." The establishment of an Austrian commission. The issuing of bonds. The delivery of livestock and certain historical and artistic data. Reduction of the Austrian army to 30,000 volunteers must be undertaken within three inonlus after signing of the peace. This army can be used for no purpose other than maintenance of Internal order and control of frontiers. Importation and exportation of arms, ammunition and war materials of all kinds is forbidden by the treaty. The army reduction is described as "part of. the plan to render possible the initial ion of a general limitation of armaments of all nations." Austria is assured that the reparations repara-tions committee will "bear in mind the diminuntion of Austria's resources-and capacity of payment resulting from the treaty." The allied and associated powers recognize that Austria's resources will not be adequate to make complete reparation," re-paration," but she undertakes by the treaty that she will make compensation compensa-tion for damage done to civilians and their property along lines similar to those of the treaty with Germany. Austria, by virtue of the treaty, "accepts "ac-cepts the responsibility of Austria and her allies for causing the loss and damage dam-age to which the allied and associated governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Austria and her allies." |