Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1919 — STRIP AUSTRIA OF ARMAMENT [ARTICLE]

STRIP AUSTRIA OF ARMAMENT

Terms of Peace Require Dismantling of Skoda Works and Other Plants. REFUSE PARLEY ON LABOR /Ocmeucrau Social Justice Is Provided for in the Peace Terms —ltalians Confer With President of |*race Conference. London, Maj !«. —Generalissimo Foch has arrived at Mayence and la proceeding to Welsbaden and Coblenx, making preparations for the allied occupation of the right hank of the Rhine In the event of a German refusal to sign the peace terms, according to an Exchange telegram from Frankfort. Parla, May 16.—The Austrian peace terms probably will be presented to the Austrian delegation Wednesday. The terms, It is understood, require the dismantling of tho famous Skoda works among other armament plants. The council of four discussed with ita military advisers the military terms of the treaty. It is understood they are similar to those In the German treaty, Including the prohibition of conscription. i Mr. Trumbltchj head of the Jugoslav mission in Paris, had a conference with E. M. Rouse of the American peace mission, and Thomas Nelson Page, American ambassador to Italy. Clemenceau and Italians Confer. Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister Sonnfno of Italy had a conference with Premier Clemenceau. The failure of the Hungarian government to respond to the invitation to send delegates to France to receive peace terms and the general uncertainty of Hungarian conditions probebp will delay the Austrian peace negotiations. The problems relating to Austria and Hungary overlap so greatly that the allies feel that many phases of them must be considered jointly. Prof. Philip C. Brown, an attache of the American embassy in Vienna, who has been, in Budapest recently, has arrived from Hungary, bringing unsatisfactory reports of the general situation. Refuse Parley on Labor. The council of four has declined to consider the note from Count Brock-dorff-Rantxau, chief of the German peace mission, relative to international labor legislation. The three latest notes sent the allied and associated powers by the German peace delegation were referred to the peace conference commissions on economic reparations and German frontiers. In a note sent to the German delegation, M. Clemenceau, president of the peace conference, says the allied Ind associated governments are “of the opinion that their decisions give satisfaction to the anxiety which the German delegate professes for social justice, and Insure the realization of reforms which the working classes have more than ever a right to expect after the cruel trial to which the world has been subjected during the last five years.”