AUSTRO-GERMANY.
FOREIGN AND POLITICAL. SITUATION.
Copenhagen, April 14. The Foreign Committee of Austrian Delegations has been summoned to meet on the 20th to permit Count Czernin to make a declaration on the foreign and political situation. Parliament is summoned for the 13th.
KAISER'S MESSAGE Tp CARL. Amsterdam, Aprl 14. The Kaiser, replying to the Emperor Carl's telegram disavowing the AlsaceLorraine letter, says: "I have not doubted for a moment that you place German affairs 011 an equal plane to your own, since we are united on behalf of the rights of your monarchy. We must expect enemy efforts to divide us." A SHUFFLE OVER CARL'S LETTKK. Amsterdam, April 14. It is now semi-officially admitted at Vienna that the EmperofCarl sent some kind of a letter regarding AlsaceLorraine, but it is officially stated that the letter, as officially published in Paris, was falsified. It is officially stated in Vienna that the Emperor Carl's better to Prince Sixte of Bourbon was fraudulently altered.
Prince Sixte instituted negotiations to produce a rapprochement of tlie belligerents, and the Emperor Carl wrote him a private letter, not destined for M. Poincare and not containing his instructions to initiate any negotiations. The letter contained no mention of Belgium and stated regarding Alsace-Lorraine that Austria would support French claims if they were just, but they were unjust.
GERMANY'S REAL AIMS. London, April 14. The Morning Post's Zurich correspondent says newspaper readers are regaled with every scrap of information suggesting that the- English people are losing heart. The Germans consider the military position now strong enough to justify the candid disclosure of their aim to occupy the place which they expect the British Empire to bo compelled to vacate. >
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1918, Page 6
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