TERMS OF AUSTRIAN NOTE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 21 October 1918, Page 8

TERMS OF AUSTRIAN NOTE.

AND PRESIDENT WILSON'S REPLY

(Received Oct. 21, 9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. Mr Lansing has given out the text of the Austrian Note to which President Wilson has replied^ The Note stated that the AustroHungarian Government had waged the war solely and always as a defensive war, and had repeatedly given evidence of its readiness to stop shedding blood and to arrive at a just and honorable peace. Austria-Hungary had therefore approached .the President, offering to conclude an armistice on every front and to,enter immediately into peace negotiations. Austria desired to enter into a discussion in which President iWilson's fourteen points shall be taken into account. . President' Wilson's reply to Austria says that certain events of the utmost importance which have occurred since his speech of January last have necessarily altered the attitude and responsibility of the United States Government. In view, of, the recognition of the Czecho-Slovaks, the President is no longer at liberty to accept mere autonomy for these people as the basis of peace, but is obliged to insist that they, and not he, shall be the judges of what action on the part of the Austro-Hungarian Government will satisfy their aspirations and their conceptions of their rights and destiny as members of the family of nations. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.