Austria

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 294, 10 December 1914, Page 6

Austria

OFFER OF AUTONOMY TO TRENT.

United Press Association. (Received 1,25 p.m. ) Amsterdam, December 9. The Journal Nazionale confirms the Austrian offer of autonomy to Trent. The subject is in abeyance till Yon Buelow’s arrival, a

Prince Euelojv was born sixty-five years ago, and was Imperial Chancellor from 1900 to 19t59. In early life he was under Bismarck at the Foreign Office in BtfTjin, and holding several diplomatic posts was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1897. For four years previously he had been Ambassador in Rome, where he was ex ceedingly popular, and, although his appointment to liis new post caused some surprise, as'he was little known, it - was generally considered that he would i devote himself to strengthening the then decidedly loose bonds of the Triple Alliance, and maintaining the Bismarckian tradition. He was raised to the rank of Count in 1897, after successfully concluding the negotiations by which Germany acquired the Caroline Islands. As Chancellor he had an exceptionally difficult task under the impetuous rule of William 11., and showed great skill by the tact with which he “interpreted” the numerous Imperial indiscretions)

to the world. After the Emperor’s exceedingly indiscreet interview with the London “Telegraph” in 1908, Prince Biielow was unable to stomach more, and handed .in his resignation. He was induced to withdraw it, but retired from office a year later. It was he who conducted German policy through the first phase of the Moroccan crisis, and coincident with the fall of his principal diplomatic adversary, M. Delcasse, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was created a Prince by the Kaiser.