PEACE OVERTURES.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 September 1918, Page 4

PEACE OVERTURES.

GERMAN RESPONSIBILITY FOR FOR AUSTRIAN NOTE /" AMSTERDAM, September 18 The Gentian Press reluctantly recognises ;?f;tha,t Germany bears the responsimility for the Austrian Note, which is the last act- of a scries of long negotiations between Berlin and The “Berliner. Tageblatt’s” Budapest--corespondent asserts that a Note was agreed upon in principle between. Baron Burian and Admiral von Hintze during the latter’s visit to Vienna..- It was arranged when the adversaries’ offensive reached a certain stage ,and the German armies had taken up new positions a peace step should, be undertaken. .An Austrian newspaper declares that von Payer, German Vice-Chancellor, when he made his speech was aware of Baron Burian’s project GERMANY'S SUBSIDY TO AUSTRIA REDUCED BY HALF. AUSTRIA TO CONTINUE PEACE OFFENSIVE. Received .9.30 a.in. LONDON, Sept 19. The “Morning Post’s” Amsterdam correspondent .is trustworthily Informed that the German Government has reduced the subsidy to Austria by half. Meanwhile Austria continues the peace offensive. It is understood that Count Czernin is acting with some members of the Reichstag engaged in forming a. peace resolution to be introduced at the session opening on October Ist. The resolution suggests Austria-Hungary’s willingness to submit eventually all Eastern questions, including Poland, to an international solution.