EARLIER PEACE EFFORTS.
'AUSTRIAN NEGOTIATIONS.
PARIS, January 5
A" circumstantial account of Austria negotiating for a separate peace _in 1917, states that the Empress Ziia, when in Switzerland, gave her bro- ' -tlier,. Prince Sixte, a note from Emperor Carl, soliciting his aid to secure peace. Prince Sixto said that peace was Ttnobtainabie, without the restoration ! ■o£ AlsacerLorraino to France, and the -cession of. Constantinople to Servia. Prince Sixte, on March o handed to M. Poincare, Emperor Karl's note, dedaring that ho was a strong supporter of France, and adding:—We are absolutely not .in Germany's hands. We only want .to maintain our present frontiers." . . - . " '. Prince Sixte later visited Austria, and Emperor Karl said that if he -■could not induce Germany to make a ■mat peace, he would make a separate peacev rather^ than sacrifice the Empire to Germany's madness. ... • Prince S'ixte had many interviews /in ■i -France, including, those with M Pomcare, M, Eibot, and Mr Lloyd . He wont to England and saw Mr Lloyd George, who took him to see the ft-ing.
The overtures failed because the. Entente wai-ii unable to arrange terms satisfactory to Italy, which insisted ou receiving; the Tyrol, though according to Emperor. Karl, General. Cadorna sent an emissary to Berne offering a separate peace on condition that Italy received the Italian portion of the Tr.en.tino. General Cadorna denies the story of the Berne mission-as a pure invention. The Italian newspapers suggest'the story is v circulated ,during the negotiations in order to sow 'dissension" between Italy and the other Entente peoples by blaming Italy for the'failure of the negotiations.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9197, 7 January 1920, Page 5
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