AUSTRIAN PREMIER'S POLICY SPEECH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 1 August 1918, Page 5

AUSTRIAN PREMIER'S POLICY SPEECH.

I DELICATE SITUATION IN NEAR' EAST. j AMSTERDAM, July 30. | The new Premier, Herr Busserck, delivering a policy speech in the Upper ' House of the Reichsrath, said that Austria AA'as ready at any time to make an honorable peace, but so long as her ■ enemies adopted th© standpoint of a' one-sided dictation of terms, there was nothing to do but to continue the AA rar j Avith all resoluteness and intensity.— j Reuter. ■ BERNE, July 30. j It is officially stated in Berlin that • the isituation in the East is extremely i delicate. The Polish and Ukraine ques- i tions are far from satisfactory, and probably Avill be discussed at headquarters, together AA-ith Austria's policy in respect thereto, in the presence of von . Hintze. I

Vienna announces that the Emperor Karl has sent the Kaiser an important letter to headquarters explaining Austria's proposals to Roumania. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Association,