AUSTRIA WOULD HAIL PEACE WTIH DELIGHT
BUT WILL NOT SURRENDER TERRITORY. ITOT YET KBADY TO OBXOXM ATE PEACE OVERTURES. (Recmed 10JO a.m.) AMSTERDAM, September 11. Advices from Vienna state that Baron Stephen Burian, Minister for Foreign Affairs, admits that Austria would hail peace with delight, but not the peace which the Allies want to impose. "We are unwilling to discuss peace," he eaye, "while the Allies want to take part of our territory. It is not tree that we are eager for peace on any terms. I admit tha.t we were surprised that Rumania finally came to a decision so quickly. We did not offer Rumania territorial concessions, and knew in June that Italy and Dr. Bratiano, Premier of Rumania, had made a definite bargain. Dr. Bratiano hoped to play a part in taking from the Austrian corpse whai he could. "Our relations with America are satisfactory, but we maintain that America's exportation of munitions to the Allies has protracted the war and thereby inflicted irreparable damage on mankind. Some may contend that Austria should, for military reasons, originate peace overtures, but we will never agree while our antagonists speak of partitioning our country."
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 218, 12 September 1916, Page 5
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