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PREVENTION OF PEACE, TOO MUCH BLUFFING. • Washington/ De«. 12. : Advices from Vienna Htate that Count Czernin explained to an interviewer that irtidendnrff prevented peace whenever the Allies were winning, and Britain rf-. fused to consider peace talk' whenever the. Germanic Alliance was winning. Ludendorff refused to consider peace, though Austria offered Galicto, to Germany if Germany would give .AlsaceLorraine to (France, hut the German militarists refused, because they said the German people would never Understand giving up laud for which they had shed so much blood. General Smuts visited Switzerland last March, and Count Mensdqrc rcet him on behalf of Austria-Hungary, but therp was no definite rpsnlt. Germany assured Count Czernin that no definite terms had been received from Britain. He believed this was .true; Britain always seemed ready to crush Germany, and only President. Wilson seemed wady to give her reasonable [ terms. | The Emperor Wilhelm did not want :war, but did not Know how to get out of assenting. to it. The .war,.started through too much Muffing-, ■ everyone wanting the other fellow toi give - way. —Aus.-IT.SS. Cable Assn.,
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1918, Page 5
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180AUSTRIA. Taranaki Daily News, 16 December 1918, Page 5
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