THE PEACE FEILERS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14578, 8 April 1918, Page 7

THE PEACE FEI LERS.

count ozernin's assertions, a strangeTcontrast. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) AMSTERDAM, April 5. In a semi-official Vienna mee-sagc apropos of M. Clemenceau's denial- of. tire peace feelers, Count Czcrnin states .that he instructed Count Reventeta (Councillor at the Legation m Switzerland) to confer with Count Armand, whom the French War Office sent to Switzerland for that purpose. The interviews were held at Flaiburg on February 2, and the discussions sought to find a basin for negotiations for a general peace. Count Reventera requested Count Armand to inform M. Clemenceau that Count Czernin was desirous of negotiating with a French representative, and believed that success was possible if France would renounce her aspirations to recover Alsace and Lorraine.. Count Armand later informed Count Reventera, m M. Clemenceau's name, that the latter could aiot accept the renunciation of AlsaceLorraine, and the peace pourparlers were therefore useless. The World's Rome correspondent states that m contrast to Count Czernin's speech, other Austrian statesmen are making speeches demanding the annexation of the invaded Italian provinces.