BARON BURIAN’S STATEMENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11667, 12 September 1916, Page 5

BARON BURIAN’S STATEMENT.

AUSTRIA WOULD DELIGHT IN PEACE. There is little to day which may be called sensational, though there are many messages from many fronts The Bulgar-Germans are at cross purposes in their ideas of strategy. Up in ibe extreme corner ot Bulgaria the Roumanians are battering Bulgarian towus anti giving them to the flamos. On the other hand, at the other extreme, the Bulgars and Germans have taken two towns in the Dobrudja by the exercise of the super-big gnu. , ... This latter offensive of the enemy seemed to promise some humiliations for the. Allies and repetition of that kind of dramatic rush which lias been German policy throughout. Bat it is evident that factors are appearing m that district which will curtail their operations. The Buloars have evacuated Yarna, one of their coast towus, owing to the fire of the Russian fleet, anl the advance of a Russian army, and the latest news is that the offensive lias been checked. j A great light appears to be going on between British troops and Bulgars on the Struma front. A French communique tells ns that the British crossed a river under fire and are attacking the Bulgars in two j villages and that desperate lighting is still going on. Austria, it appears, would delightedly welcome peace if it were assured of its territorial integrity. It would have good reason to he delighted That might have been possible before the Advent of Roumania. Bnt the time is gone by. With Roumania biting big chunks out of one side and Italy swallowing whole mountain ranges on the Jother Austro-Hungary will, after the war, feel like a man does who lias lost a limb or two. ,' The Daily Mail’s spy ti.ods that the Germans are feverishly construct* ing fortifications at the back of their lines, which indicates that they expect very imperative notice to quit their present quarters. , Hiudenburg has promised a brilliant victory before the 28th of the present month. The Hungarian Parliament was about to meet again in what would have been a session of violent recrimination. But Wilhelm Hobenzollern has wired Count Tisza that if he will only wait a few days Hindenhnrg will change the fate of nations and when they meet again they will be shaking each others’ arms off with joy. So they have then ears to the telephone all the time now.