VIENNA DUPED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 858, 9 November 1916, Page 9

VIENNA DUPED.

FALSE PEACE RUMOUR. Australian and S.Z. Cal'e Association LONDON. November 7. The Berne correspondent of the "Morning Post" reports that there were extraordinary scenes in Vienna. Newspapers, relying on German sources, published a rumour as to the likelihood of a separate peace with Russia. Later, many members of the Austrian aristocracy who were attending a race meeting in the afternoon, professed to confirm the tidings on the strength of an telegram from Count Tisza at Budapest, stating that the streets were be-' flagged and crowds were parading wild with joy. The news spread like wildfire throughout Vienna, and excited crowds collected at the Ministry of' War and at St. Stephen's Church, cheering themselves hoarse. The; crowd paraded in the Kartnerstrasse j until the Foreign Minister issued a j denial of the rumour.