Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1919 — AUSTRIAN FRONTIERS DEFINED [ARTICLE]

AUSTRIAN FRONTIERS DEFINED

Believe Peace Treaty May Ba Completed Phis Week. TREATIES ARE VERY SIMILAR AuMtri*n l*Ht'gaU*s Are Hound for Ht. to lie Informed of Conditions Imposed. Paris, May 13.—The council of four spent the greater part of th* day on the Austrian boundaries and completed the task of defining thonk this afternoon in a session with th* foreign ministers. Such progress was made that the members of th* council believe that the Austrian treaty may he completed thia week. Geneva. May 12. —A number of Austrian delegates bound for St. Germain to take part In the peao* negotiations arrived at Buchs on th* Swiss frontier this morning. They will take the Simplon express and are expected to reach Paris Tuesday night. Paris, May 12.—President Wilson spent some time today with th* American commissioners who hav* been considering the various phase* of the peace treaty. It was pointed out that there are so many point* of similarity between the Austrian and German treaties that an enormous amount of time would ba saved by preparing the document relative to Austria at once.

The Adriatic question was taken up today in addition to other matters by the council of four. A conference between. Baron Sonnino, Italian foreign minister, and Col. E. M. House of the American peace delegation regarding Italy’s claims to Flume and th* Adriatic coast, and a meeting of the council of four at which th* notes presented by the German peace delegation concerning prisoners of war and labor were turned over to experts for Investigation and the completion of the task of defining the new Austrian boundaries represented the entire activity in peace conference circles in Pari* Monday. The result of the conversation between Baron Sonnino and Colonel House has not been made public. Meantime dispatches from Rome indicate that the Italian population is again becoming restive after having learned that the report of last week that Italy’s claims to Flume had been settled was erroneous. Added to this irritation is dissatisfaction because Italy was not mentioned as one of the parties to the .proposed Anglo-Franco-Ameri-can alliance; the question of th* division of Austria’s merchant marine; the treaty provision with Germany that the three principal powers are sufficient to ratify th* treaty, and other smaller matters in which the Italians feel they 'hav* been slighted. The Germans at Versailles ar* still busily engaged in examining the peace treaty. In addition to the six minor members of the delegation who left Versailles for Berlin late last week, two of the more prominent members, Herren Geistoerts and Landsberg, have gone to Germany, evidently with pose of conferring with the German government. From Germany comes reports of continued dissatisfaction over th* terms which Germany has been told she must meet in order to obtain peace. Reiteration that it will be impossible to carry out the provl, sicns are to be heard everywhere. Great demohstratlons of protest have been held In Berlin, Breslau and other cities.

No less personage than Friederich Ebert, president of Germany, has announced that he is standing on President Wilson’s fourteen points for peace. Ebert alluded to the peace treaty as a ‘‘monstrous document,” which, he said, holds no percedent in y determination completely to annihilate vanquished

peoples. German government troops are stlU -hard after the radical elements. They have seized Leipsic, one of the last strongholds of the Spartacans. A state of siege has been declared there. Early June has been tentatively chosen for the commencement of the withdrawal of American troops from northern Russia. The Americans have not heen engaged In lighting of great Importance for several months.