HUNGARY’S DESIRE FOR PEACE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1605, 31 August 1916, Page 2

HUNGARY’S DESIRE FOR PEACE.

SINCE the appointment of Count Andrassy as Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, some curiosity has been aroused regarding the purpose of a visit he recently paid to Switzerland. A correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says: “There is no doubt Count Andrassy paid a furtive visit to Switzerland, for he was seen there by many who

know him personally. AVl.nl his object was is ;i mystery, but immedinlely ;ifter his departure artieles were supplied from Hungarians in Switzerland to a Swiss paper, suggesting' that Hungary should be assisted to break loose from Austria. Hungarians wanted nothing less than liberation of-the country from the Austrian ineubus, and termination of the war, which they were made to tight only in the interests of Austria and Germany. Amid indescribable tumults in the Hungarian Chamber, deputies cried out, asking why Hungary should continue to tight in this war. The desire was also expressed that Hungary should become independent of Austria and that it should form a separate nation entirely, with strictly Hungarian territory only, comprising a population of from 12,000,0(10 to 15,000,000 souls, and living-its national life in peace and <|uiet, apart from the ambitions of other European nations, Persons who saw Count Andrassy in Switzerland state that be came on an oClient 1 mission to examine the ground once more and see if a separate peace between Prance and Germany were not possible. Prance once more indignantly rejected any overtures not addressed to the allies collectively, and Count Andrassy, who bad hoped its a patriotic Hungarian, to act its peacemaker, returned to Buda-Postil disappointed, like so manv before him.