Austria

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1915, Page 5

Austria

THE DUAL MONARCHY. AUSTRIAN MINISTER’S DOLEFUL PICTURE. PEACE DISCUSSION AT BERLIN. United PEBdi Association. (Received 8.35 a.rn.) London, February 2. The Daily Mail’s Copenhagen correspondent reports that Count Burian, Austrian Minister, on the occasion of his recent visit to the Kaiser, drew a doleful picture of the plight of the Dual Monarchy, and urged that the time had arrived when Germany and the Powers should consider most seriously the possibilities of a tolerable

peace. The Minister declared'that the Rus--f*sia.ns must be repulsed at all costs, but lie was doubtful if it were possible to resist the Russians and Servians, and probably the Roumanians as well. Definite defeat would mean a debacle and the partition of Aus. tria-Hungary. Ho advised Germany not to fundamentally reject any thought of peace on the ground of the disarmament of Europe. The leading German statesmen held that such a plan would be ruinous to Germany and Austria, and the disarmament of Europe would mean that England would police the world. Count Burian contended that the only thing to do was to take the chance that something would occur. The Germans replied that if it were necessary they would -send a million and a-half soldiers to France in the Spring to crush the Allied forces and compel peace. A Hungarian publicist writing in Eng. land, states that Count Tisza. (Premier) is aiming at the ascendancy of Hungary within the Dual Monarchy, ■ wth the transfer 'of the Capital to Buda Pesth, and that Count Burian Mg merely Count Tisza’s representative in Vienna.