AUSTRIAN OVERTURES TO RUSSIA REPORTED.
WILLING TO CEDE BOSNIA AND OALICIA. POPE ASKED TO ACT AS MEDIATOR. (Received April 4. 730 p.m.) London, April 3. The Moscow newspaper Russkv Slowo says that after the failure of the Austrian Emperor's appeal to the Pope to overcome the Kaiser's obstinate desire to continue the war regardless of consequences, Francis Joseph asked the Pope to try to conclude a separate peace with Russia, Austria's terms including the surrender of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Galicia In Russian military circles it is not believed lint a separate peace is practicable while the Austro-German armies are interwoven and Berlin is directing the plan of campaign in the Carpathians.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15885, 5 April 1915, Page 5
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