GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 203, 4 February 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

AUSTRIAN PEACE OVERTURES. A DEBACLE FEARED. GERMANY WILL "COMPEL PEACE." BRITAIN'S WORLD SUPREMACY INTOLERABLE. London, February 2. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that Baron Burian, Austrian Foreign M*-"--'"-, on the occasion of his recent \ isit to the Kaiser, drew a doleful picture of the plight of the dtial monarchy and urged that the time had arrived for the Germanic Powers to consider most Beriously the possibilities of a tolerable peace. He declared that the Russians must be repulsed at all costs, but was doubtful if it was possible to resist the Russians and Servians and probably the Roumanians as well. A definite defeat would mean a debacle and the partition of AustriaHungary. He advised Germany not fundamentally to reject any thought of peace o n the ground of disarmament of Europe. Leading German, statesmen held that such a plan would be ruinous as German and Austrian disarmament in Europe would mean that England would police the world. Baron Burian contended that the only thing to do was to take the chance that something would occur. The Germans replied that if 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 to England, states that Count Tisza is aiming at the ascendancy of Hungary within the dual monarchy and at the transfer of the capital to Budapest, Baron Burian is merely Count Tisza's representative at Vienna, CONSTRUCTING THE WARLIKE MOOD. MORE REVRLATIONS OF "KULTUR." Times and Sydney Sun Services, London, February 2. A translation by Professor Morgan of the instructions issued to tho German General Staff is filled with sensational revelations as to how the temperament of Germans is saturated with belligerent emotions. It discloses a calculated policy of terrorism of every description. It describes the Hague Convention as the crest of the wave of sentimentalism and flabby emotion, in fundamental contiadiction to the nature and object of , war. CASUALTY LISTS. NEARLY A MILLION PRUSSIANS. 1 Received 4, 12.15 a.m. Copenhagen, February 3. One hundred and thirty-seven Prussian lists contain 926,547 casualties. In addition, 144 Bavarian, 100 Saxon, 104 Wurtemburg, and fifteen navy lists arc also published.