PEACE TERMS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 2 September 1919, Page 5

PEACE TERMS

•&USTKEANS RECEIVE TREATY

TO-DAY.

THE SHANTUNG SETTLEMENT.

' BY CABLE—KRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT

PARIS, Sep. ]. The Austrians, who will receive the Treaty to-movrow:, wall be given live -days' grace to accept or reject it. The Treaty includes a clause' forbidding .Austma to unite with Germany without tho permission of the League of Nations, or to allorvv Pan-German propaganda on Au&taUan soil. A covering letter, rejects the contention that Austria ,Uis entitled to the same exemption from war penalties as other constituent^ of the dismembered empire, but recogiiises, in view of Austria's impaired re- :.; sources, that the burdens cannot be heavy. ' ■■■■•■'•' ' ■■ ■' . ...■". ; TOKIO, Sep. l r I ThereJ is outspoken newspaper criticism of the American Senate's, attitude regarding Shantung, which is\charactei-iaiv-iins6leh.ty:'.'iinfriendlyi v an.d pro- , yxwiatiye towards Japan. The unahi-. anous opinion is that Japan must insist «v the.Shantung clause. NEW YORK, Sep. 1. >v -According to a despatch from Pekin "^the Provincial Assembly hag sent cablejgwuns. toy Washiri^ton, "urging the .Sen--ate:-.;io.^uphold China's catse. It is repoi ted that the Japanese are aready to agree to a joint woi king: of the • railways and mines in the leased terri-