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?HE S?MTER WATCHMAN, Estah< Consolidated Aug. 2,1 PEACE TERMS FOR AUSTRIA Full Text of Treaty Delivered To Austrian Dele gates FIFTEEN DAYS IN WHICH TO SIGN Required to Pay For Damages Inflicted On Allies?Small Army Allowed Paris, July 20.?The full peace con ditions of the allied and associated powers are now in the hands of the Austrians. The first section of the terms were presented to the Austrian delegates at St. Germain on June 2. The" final sections were delivered to them at the same place today without ceremony, by M. Dutasta. secretary! general of the peace conference. The; terms comprise the whole .treaty j which Austria is asked to sigh. In -! eluding the reparation, financial, mili tary and certain other minor clauses, which were not ready for presentation when the official ceremony took place. In an accompanying memorandum, the Austrians are granted 15 days ini which to make their final observa tions, although they have already sub mitted a large number of notes on the terms previously submitted to them. In addition to the published sum mary of the terms of June 2. the new clauses provide for reparation arrangements very similar to those in tbe treaty with Germany, includ ing the establishment of an Austrian - subsection, of the reparations commis sion, the payment of a reasonable sum in cash, the issuing of bonds and the delivery of live stock and certain his torical and art documents. The financial terms provide that the Austrian pre-war debts shall be apportioned among the various form er parts of Austria and that the v Austrian coinage and war bonds cir- j eulating in the separated territory! shall be taken up by the new gov-j erpmenta and redeemed as they seel --fit- ? ? "?hder the military terms the Aus trian army is henceforth reduced to 30,000 men on a purely voluntary ? basis, including officers and depot troops. Within three months the Aus trian military' forces shall be reduced ' to this number, universal military ' ; service abolished and voluntary en- j listment substituted, as part of the] plan "to render possible the initiation j of a general limitation of armaments ; of all nations." The army shall be used exclusively j ? for the maintenance of internal order and' control of frontiers. AH officers must be regulars, those of the pres- j ent army to be retained, being under the obligation to serve until 40 years; old; those newly appointed agreeing i to at least 20 consecutive years of active service. Non commissioned offi- j cers and privates must enlist for not less than 12 consecutive years, in cluding at least sin years with the; colors. ! Within three months the arma-1 ment of the Austrian army must be; reduced according to detailed sched- ! -tile and all surplus surrendered. The j manufacture of all war material schall j be confined to one single fctory un-j der control of the State. Importation , and exportation of arms, munitions! and war materials of all kinds is for-! Did?en. Paragraph 8?Reparation: The al lied and associated governments af- | firm and Austria accepts, the resp- j sponsibility of Austria and her allies; for causing loss and damage to which*i the allied Jtnd associated governments | and their nationals have been sub- i jected as a consequence of the war j imposed on them by the aggression j of Austria and her allies. ; While realizing that Austria's re- j sources will not be adequate to make complete reparation, the allied and associated governments request and | Austria undertakes that she will make j compensation for damage done to! civilians and their property in accord-! ance with categories of damage sim-, ilar to those provided in the treaty with Germany. The amount of damage is to be de termined by the reparations commis sion provided for in the treaty with Germany, which is to have a special . section to handle the Austrian situa tion. The commission will notify Aus tria before May 1. 1921, of the extent of her liabilities and of the schedule of payments for the discharge thereof during a period of 20 years. It will bear in mind the diminution of Aus tria's resources and capacity of pay ment resulting from the treaty. As immediate reparation Austria shall pay during 19J?>. 1920 and the first four months in 1921. "in such a manner as provided by the reparation commission a reasonable sum. which shall be determined by the commis sion." ? Three bond issues shall be. made, tbe first before May 1. 1021. without Interest, the second at 2 1-2 per cent, interest between 1921 and 1920. and thereafter at 5 per cent with an ad dition and 1 per cent for amortiza tion, beginning in 1926. and a third at 5 per cent when the commission is satisfied that Austria can meet the Interest and sinking fund obligations. The amount shall be divided by the allied and associated governments hi fFQ&9ftiQU determined upon . in ad ttked April, 1850. "Ba Just? 881. I MARINE STRIKE NOT SETTLED i______ Ship Owners Trying to Frame Compromise Agreement With Unions OFFER PREFERENTIAL !?? " "" ~ ' ~ TREATMENT Unions May Be Willing to Ac cept Proposal as All Ameri cans Are Members of Union Py Associatec' Press. New York. July 21.?Ship owners, whose vessels are tied up at this ant: other Atlantic ports today faced the problem of framing a compromise proposal to the demand of the strik ing seamen for recognition of the union. An offer to give preferential employment to union seamen, after men of American citizenship were given an opportunity to fill the va cancies, union leaders indicated might be accepted, since all American sea men are union members. aUMaMMMMWBnMMHianMMni vance of a basis of general equity. The Austrian section of the repara tions commission shall include rep resentatives of the United Stares, Great Britain, France, Italy, Greece. Poland. Rumania, the Serbo-SIovene State and Czecho-Slcvakia. The first four shall each appoint a delegate .with two votes, and the other five shall choose one delegate each year to rep resent them all. Withdrawal from I the commission is permitted on 11 months' notice. Austria, recognizing the right of the allies to ton-for-ton replacement of all ships lost or damaged in the war. cedes all merchant ships and fish ing boats belonging to nationals of the former empire. With a view of making good the losses in river ton nage, she agrees to deliver up 20 pei cent of her river fleet. The allied and associated powers j require, and Austria undertakes, that in part reparation she will devote her i economic resources to the physical J restoration of the invaded area. Within 60 days of the coming intc force of the treaty, the governments concerned shall file with the repara tions commission lists of animals, ma chinery, equipment and the like de stroyed by Austria and which the gov ernments desire replaced in kind and lists of the materials which they de sire produced in Austria for the work of construction and which shall be reviewed in the light of Austria's ability to meet them. As an immediate advance as to ani mats Austria agrees to deliver withir three months after ratification of th< treaty 4.000 milk cows to Italy an*" 1.000 each to Serbia and Rumania; 1.000 heifers to Italy, 300 to Serbit and 500 to Rumania: 1.000 calve::- tc each of the three nations; 1.009 bul locks to Italy and 500 each to Serbi? and Rumania: 2,000 sows to TtaTy and 1.000 draught horses and 1.0(K sheep to both Serbia and Rumania. Austria also agrees to give an op tion for five years as to timber, iror and maghesite in amounts as nearly equal to the pre-war importations ar Austria's resources make possible j She renounces in favor of Italy all i cables touching territory assigned to Italy, and in favor of the allied and ! associated powers the others. Austria agrees to restore all records, j documents, objects of antiquity and i art and all scientific and biblographi- ' cal materia. taken away from the in- j vaded or ceded territories. She wi!" j also hand over without delay all offi- j cial records of ceded territories j and all records, documents and his- ! torical material possessed by pub'ic j institutions and having a direct "bear- ! ing the past ten years, except that j for Italy the period shall be from I As to artistic, archaeological, scien tific and historical objects formerly belonging to the Austro-Hungarian j government or crown, Austria agrees ! to negotiate with the State concerned j for an amicable arrangement for the j return to the districts of origin on terms of reciprocity of any object which ought to form part of the in- j teUectual patrimony of the ceded dis-i tricts, and for 20 years to safeguard | all other such objects for the free use of students. As for special objects carr ied off by ; the house of Hapsburg and othei dynasties from Italy. Belgium, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. a committee of three jurists appointed by the repara tions commission is to examine within a year the conditions under which the i objects were removed and to order j restoration, if the removals were il legal. The list of articles includes; among others: F'?r Tuscany, the crown jewels and: part of the Medici heirlooms: fori Modena', n "Virgina" by Andrea del Sarto, and three manuscripts for Palermo. 12th century objects made for the Norman kings: for Naples, 98 manuscripts, carried off in 1718; for Belgium, various objects and docu ments removed in 17H4; for Poland a: gold cup of King Ladislaus IV, re moved in 1772. and for Czechb-Slova kai various documents and historical manuscripts from the royal chateau of Prague. Paragraph 9?Financial: The first j charge upon all the assets and rev enues of Austria shall be the costs arising under the present treaty, in cluding, in order of priority, the costs! od Fear not?Bet ?II the ends Thon AI 5UMTEE, 8. C, WEDN: VICTORS OF WAR PARADE LONDON Nineteen Thousand Picked Men Take Part in Peace Celebration GEN. PERSHING LED AMERICAN DIVISION King and Queen and Leaders of Parliament With Army and Naval Officers Review Parade London. July 19.?Nineteen thous and allied soldier:.-, picked men from famous combat divisions, the names of which are written large on the pages of history of the world war. marched through London's streets to day in celebration of the return of peace. The line of the parade was I aiore than six miles in length. The Americans, led by Gen. Pershing. marched in three battalions of thirty three officers and eleven hundred men each. King George with other mem bers of the royal family, army and navy officers and the leaders of both houses of. parliament stood on the Steps of Victori Memoril in front of Buckingham Palace to receive the salutes of the warriors._ ? of the armies of occupation, repara tions and other charges specifically agreed to and with certain exceptions is granted by the reparations com mission for payment for imports. Aus tria must pay the total cost of the irmies of occupation from the armis tice of November 1918, so long.as maintained and may export no gold before May 1, 1921, without consent jf the reparations commission. Each of the states to which Aus trian territory is transferred and each of the states arising out of the dis memberment of Austria, including the republic of Austria, shall assume part of the Austrian pre-war debt specifi cally secured on railways, salt mines and other property, the amount to be fixed by the reparations commiss^n on the basis of the value of the prop erty so transferred. Similarly tbe un secured bonded pre-war debt of the former empire shall be distributed by :he reparations commission in the proportion that the revenues for the three years before the war of the separated territory bore to those of the empire, excluding Bosnia and Herzegovina. No territory formerly part of the empire, except the republic of Austria shall carry with it any obligation in respect of the war debt of the former Austrian government, but neither the governments of those territories nor their nations shall have recourse against any other state, including Austria, in respeci of war debt bond." held within their respective territories by themselves or their nationals. / Tbe war debt held outside the for mer empire shall be a charge on the republic of Austria alone. All wai securities shall be stamped within two months with the stamp of the sta*o taking them up. replaced by certifi cates and settlement made to thi reparations commission. Thi currency notes of the- former Austro-Hungarian bank circulating in the separated territory shall bf stamped within two month'; by the new governments of the various ter ritories with their own stamp, re placed within 12 months by a new cur rency and turned over within 14 months to the. reparations commission. The bank itself shall be liquidated ai from the day of the treaty by the re parations commission. States to which Austrian territory was transferred and states arising from the dismemberment of Austria ;hall acquire all property within their l*-rritories of the old or new Austrian governments including that of the former royal family. The value is to 1 e assessed by the reparations com mission and credited to Austria on he reparation account. Property of predominant historic interest to the former kingdoms of Poland. Behemi:i, Croetia, Slovonia. DaJmatia. Bosnia. Herzegovina, the republic of Ragusa; the Venetian re public or th" Episcopal principalities of Trent and Bressanone may be transferred without payment. Austria renounc-s all rights as to all international, financial or commer cial organizalions in allied countries. Germany. Hungary, p.ulgaria. Turkey, or the former Russian empire. .She agrees to expropriate on demand of the reparations commission. an? rights of her nationals in any publk utility or concession in these terri tories, in separated districts and in mandatory territories, to transi'ei them to the commission within sis months to bold herself responsible foi indemnifying her nations so dispos sessed. She also agrees to deliver within one month the gold deposited as se curity for the Ottoman debt, renoune? any benefits accruing from the trea ties of Bucharest and Brest-Litov.sk and transfer lo tbe allied and asso ciated governments all claims agains' her former allies. Any financial adjustments such ns those relating to banking and insur anco companies, savings banks, pos tal savings banks. land banks or more e:aere companies in the former mon archy necessitated by the dismember: ment of the monarchy and tbe neset* tlement of public debts and currency mart st be thy Country's, Thy God's a ESDAY, JULY 23, 1919. BLACK TERROR IN WASHINGTON iMany Women Attacked On' Streets By Negro , Criminals I BIG REWARDS OFFERED I FOR C APTURE I Police Are Unable to Find the! Criminals or to End the Out-! rages. I - I Washington.! July 19.?The sixth attack by negroes on white women during the last four weeks on the , streets of the nation's capitol was re ported today by the police. In this I case the assailants were frightened { away but in four, other cases the vic | tims were robbed or injured. _Re I wards totaling more than two thou | sand dollars raided by private sub ; scriptibn, are standing for arrest of the culprits. One negro held by the police has been identified by two wo j men as their assailant but the police i say their evidence is only circumstan tial. Searching parties have been sent out and at one time thought they had the man located in the most fash ionable section of the city by the j homes of men nationally known. Meeting Called by Governor i ]To Consider Prevailing Prices , Paid for Tobacco Columbia. July 19.?Governor I Cooper this afternoon, at the request {of bankers and business men of the i Pee Dee counties of the State, issued a call to the bankers, merchants, planfers and others interested to meet at. Florence next Friday, July 25. for the purpose of considering the pre vailing* prices for tobacco. The governor is in receipt, of a number of telegrams which say that the price now being paid for tobacco Is ruinous and that something mus be done to stimulate the market. They requested the meeting in order that j plans for bloste^ing the market might i be considered. j Governor Cooper said today that it ! was improbable that he could attend J the gathering, as he had a previous i ?ir?*%Tt?*?** engagement to fulfill, j The following are some of the tele ; grams received: W. C. Hemingway, of Hemingway, ] said: I "Prices of production have fallen I off. Buyers are off the market. Con | ditiens very much depressed. Sugges I vou call convention of tobacco grow j crs, merchants and bankers at Flor enco, Friday. July 25, at 11 o'clock for purpose of effecting plans to re J \iev<* state of affairs." The Bank of Hemingway wired: j "As a result of the tremendou: ! *lump of tobacco prices suggest you i call meeting of bankers, merchant? j '?.nd tobacco growers at Florence. Jul> 25. to werk out plans to relieve sit uation." F. Kbems & Son, of Rhems, tele- I graphed: "Owing to the demoralized condi | : tion of the tobacco industry, we be? ; yon. to call a meeting of farmers bankers, merchants 1 and other3 b sympathy for July 25, at Florence. S C." Farmers' and Merchants' Bank, o' Andrews, said: "During the last four days in whicl i our tobacco market has been oper tobacco has been selling at extremelj low prices that are very unfair to th I farmers. Finding it necessary to mak? I some steps towards obtaining a livinr | I price for tobacco that is grown ir j ! this section, we have decided, in be I half of the people of this section t< I ask you to call a meeting of fhos' ! who are interested at Florence. C j on July 2?. to take some steps towarc" f remedying conditions." i The following wire was receive j from the Bank of Georgetown: j "We respectfully urge you to cal i a meeting of all tobacco planters j merchants, bankers and others inter I ested at Columbia or Florence. Jul { 25, to consider conditions of the mar j j ket and prescribe a remedy, as pre j j vailing prices are ruinous." j Sheriff Ray's Son Dier I ? ; Third Victim of Tragedy in Den mark I Columbia. July 2".?Henry Murray I Kay, son of Sheriff S. G. Ray of ' Paniborj,' county, who was shot and ' fatally wounded by Agent Brown j negro, in a. row following a. lawsuit at Denmark last Thursday night, dice at the Columbia Hospital yesterday morning. Washington, July 19.?The sundr- | civil appropriation bill, revised b: i congress to meet bis objections. wa* ! dgned by President Wilson today. | shall be regulated by agreement be-; tween the various jrovornments, fail- ' ing which the reparation commission mail appoint an arbitrator or arbi- j 'rators. whose decision shall be final Austria shall not be responsible for ) tensions of nationals of the former ?mptre who have become nationals of other states, mt TrmHr/g.0 THE TB?I RAINS RUIN CROPS IN THIS STATE Railroads Suffer Washouts and It is Necessary That Trains are Detoured ALL RIVERS ABOVE FLOOD STAGE Meteorologist Says Rains Will Continue. Stock Men Worried to Save Jattle Columbia. July 20.?An average of 4.27 inches precipitation for the past three days in the Piedmont and middle section of South Carolina, has enabled the Santee watershed to boom at flood stage, with ruin to crops and some damage to property. The rivers should reach the crest of the flood tomorrow, contingent, however, on the continued rainfall. Richard H. Sullivan, meteorologist in charge of the local United States weather bureau, stated tonight that, in his opinion, there would be rains until the middle of the week, but as to their precipitancy he would not forecast. He was of the opinion, however that the present rain would not wreck anything like the havoc of the disastrous floods of 1916. The floods in that year were the result, of luick heavy downpours, while the rains this year have been gradual. In 1916 the waters came down so East that the rivers could not take them over and they banked. This year they are rushing through their regular channels to the sea and spreading over the lowlands. However, the soil is saturated and today's heavy down pour rolled into the rivers. So far the material damage to the railroads has been small. A fifty-foot section of the Atlantic Coast Line at Sims, a small station just below Co lumbia, washed out. and near i-vat place the trestle of the Southern Rail ! way at Childs was washed out by the I release of impounded waters when the dam of a nearby millpond broke. The Southern Railway ran out a shuttle train and the passengers from *hr Coast Line train from Sumter were transferred and brought into Colum bia. An official said that the Coas" Lire train to Wilmington was detour ~* over the Southern to Sims, and the passengers of the road for Char leston were placed on the "Carolina Special" which was detoured by wa; 'f Blaekville because of the washout t Childs. The Coast Line had suf "ciently repaired its track at Sims to ?ight at 9 o'clock, said an official, to ?How the operation of passenger rains, and expects it to be in condi | ion to run freight trains over it by j omorrow. ! The Southern Railway reporter hat water was in sire foet of its track.' it Chappells, between Alston and Ircnville. but did not think the line would be tied up because of the ris( :n the Saluda. The trestles at Ca tawba on the Columbia line of th' Southern near Charlotte and at Broad ?iver on the Spartanburg line of the Southern were reported safe and nc apprehension was felt for them. The Seaboard Air Line reported it.1 ight-of-way in good condition, but he Wateree river at Camden was stil ?ising. Officials of the road though' ?cwever. that the trestle at that point was safe, but his feeling of securit; was contingent on whether then would be continued heavy rains. The line of the Columbia Railway "-as and Electric Company to Camr Jackson suffered somewhat, the tract ipproaching the camp being washed out in several places, so much so that the street car service to the. camr was discontinued. Tonight the new concrete bridge over Hampton creek aid a large stretch of the new paved ?*oad to Camp Jackson is threatened because of the rush of waters in thf>' creek which skirts the camp. The rear of a brick store buildinj on the 1600 block of Main street owned by Walter F. Jones, of this city, caved in this morning and crumbled to the ground, causing sev eral thousand dollars in damage. No one was injured. There was some excavation going on next to the struc ure, preparatory to building an an ncx to the adjacent department, storf and it is supposed that the rain ate inder the foundation of the Jones 'juilding, causing it to crumble. It was one of the oldest structures on Main street. It was erected shortly after the War Between the States. Reorts from various sections of >cuth Carolina say that cotton and corn are ruined, that the rushing va*ers of the past few days have enteji deep gullies into the soil. Bridges and roads likewise have suf fered. In Lexington county severa" bridges are reported gone and th? roads are in bad shape. Supervisor Owens stated tonight that a number of bridges had been washed out in Richland county, including a steel bridge on the old Camden road about six miles from Columbia. The roads have been badly cut up. This morning at 11 o'clock the local weather bureau sent broadcast a flood warning, urging the farmers to get '??eir stock out of the river bottoms The warning relative tot he rise o' rhe rivers said: "Catawba river at Ca'.awba. near twenty feet by morn ;ng of 21st; Wateree at Camden near Ihirty-six feet by night of 21st; Broad -iver at Blairs, will reach crest at about seventeen feet by morning of, ! SOUTHRON, ?-tsbtl*bed .tins, itt* VoLXLVm. No. 46. HOT AFTER. LEVER'S SEAT -. Big Bunch of Ambitious Politi cians Want to Represent Seventh District H_H__________-_H TWO PRIMARIES CER TAIN TO BE HELD - ?_. - :: -, jNone of the Prospective Candi dates Except George Bell Tim merman Have a General Ac quaintance Throughout Dis | trict I _ 'M >? 1 j Columbia, July ^9.?Colin S. Mon I tehh, attorney for city of Columbia, ' tonight anounced his candidacy for \ Congress from the seventh Congres sional district, making the fifth deft ! nite entrant into the fight to suc ceed Congressman Asbury F. Lever, of Lexington, who has been nomnieted by President Wilson on the farm loan board and-who will resign about I the first of the month. Mr. Monteith is very popular in Columbia and sur rounding territory and will have strong support in Richland County. Tom B. Pearce, of Columbia, State Senatbr from Richland County, who has been spoken of as a possible canr didate, definitely announced this morn ing that he would not make the race. Mr. Pearce said that as only one year of his four-year term in the State' Senate had been served and as there will be "so many important matters to come up for consideration in the near future," coupled with business connections which he does not feel that he can give up at this time, he had decided not to make the race. A new ,name which has loomed up today in the Congressional "bee" is that of Major John D. Frost, assistant adjutant general at one time the ad-' jutant general of the State. Men who have served overseas and in this couh-, try are urging him to run. but he 3tatcd today that he had not decided, what his attitude would be. Major Frost wa3 the adjutant of the Fift eenth Division, stationed at Houston Texas, during the war. Another possible soldier candidate from Columbia ? is Capt. Morris <2r Lumpkin, assistant Attorney General. He has been frequently spoken of, as x successor to Mr. Lever, whose pri vate secretary he was at one \ims. However. Capt. Lumpkin, who com manded Company C, 317th machine gun battalion. Eighty-first Division, in France, has not made any statement, but it is known he is giving the mat er thoughtful consideration.' Previously announced candidates to succeed Mr. Lever are: John Hughes j hooper, of Columbia, an attornev: J iecrge Bell Timmerman, of texing* ->i> solicitor Eleventh Judicial C/r :uit and Hampton P. Fulmer, of Ncr vay. member of the House of Repr^ sedatives, from Orangeburg County. Dfc<mg the last few davs Francis F. WestonT"'%tNC4oI''mbia. United _ States ittorney for the^JaStem South- Caro-' Una district, has been mentioned as .i possible candidate, but no statement has teen made by him. Paris. July 18.?Nord Deutsche all Gemeine Zeitung of Berlin, the mouthpiece of the government under the imperial regime, declarer it ha3 information that Holland will consent to the extradition of Former Emperor William, according to a Berlin dis patch to Paris newspapers- The for mal handing over of the former em peror to the allies, it adds, will take I place at The Hague. Floods in Cherokee I Watercourses of County Higher Than for Many Years Gaffney, July 20.?The water courses in Cherokee county are higher at this time than they have been for. many years, owing to the excessive rainfall of the last 24 hours. The cotton lands are flooded, and it is feared that much damage will result. The crops for the most part have been worked out. and the damage will not be as great as it would have been other wise. I 21 st: Congaree. at Columbia, sixteen to seventeen feet by morning of 21st; Saluda river, at Chapells, will reach crest near seventeen feet by morning Df 21st; the Santee. at Rimini, near i twenty-one feet by 25th. and at Fer | guson, near sixteen feet by 26th or 27th. Further rises are contingent I upon additional heavy rainfall above." I As soon as the flood situation be gan to look serious, Frank W. Shea ley, chairman of the railroad commis sion, went to his office and cautioned the officials of all railroads to put out slow orders on the line of road3 and caution their passenger trains to use the utmost care in crossing trestles and places in the track threatened by the rising waters. The following figures as to the av I erage of precipitation in various parts of the State during the past three days up to the last reading, at 4 o'clock this afternoon were given by the wetaher bureau: Pelzer. 3.26 inches; Chappels, 6.78 inches; Blairs, 4.07 inches; Columbia, 5.97 inches: Camden, 3.66 inches; Cat waba. 8.77 inches; Mt. Holly. 2.77 inches, and Greenville, 3,9$ iocjU*