Austria

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 301, 18 December 1914, Page 5

Austria

FROM THE ENEMY’S VIEWPOINT United Press Association. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Paris, December 17. The Austrians in a communique: We pursued the Russians along the entire front in Galicia and South Poland. We advanced at Zakliezun and re-captured Bochnia (chief town of the salt mine district in Galicia). The Russians have not yet abandoned their advance at Latorezavallyo in the Carpathians,

SLATIN PASHA RENOUNCES THE ENGLISH.

(Received 8.25 a.m.) London, December 17

The .Vossiche Zeitung states that Slatin Pasha (late British InspectorGeneral in the Soudan) whom .the Emperor Franz Josef recently made a privy councillor, has renounced all his English appointments and decorations.

RUSSIA’S PEACE TERMS.

RATHER TOO HARD FOR AUSTRIA (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, December 17. A Geneva newspaper states it is rumored that Austria appealed to Russia for peace, Russia replying that she'demanded the surrender of Galicia to Poland, both becoming a kingdom under the Czar; the surrender of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Servia and Montenegro; Austria’s withdrawal from the Triple Alliance, and the constitution of Austro-Hun-gary into Federal States, one of which would be autonomous, viz., Bohemia. Austria considered the "conditions too hard, and discontinued consideration of the negotiations.