PARTICULARS OF DEMANDS AND OFFERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 21 May 1915, Page 5

PARTICULARS OF DEMANDS AND OFFERS.

(Received May 21j 10.30 a.m.) ROME, May 20. A Green Book states that Austria, in exchange for concessions, demanded that Italy should maintain a benevolent neutrality and allow Austria a fr«ee hand in the Balkans and Albania. Italy rejected the condition; and' demanded Trentinbj Eastern Priuli, maintenance of Italian occupation of Valona; also Trieste with its hinterland, and that" Istvia be made an independent State. Austria refused to give a firm answer and Italy denounced the treaty with Austriardri May 4. "- ' It is stated that Germany will ask Switzerland tos^ protect German interests in the event of a rupture, owing to the anti-German feeling of America following the sinking of the Lusitania.