POLAND TO DECIDE HER DESTINY

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14621, 28 January 1918, Page 5

POLAND TO DECIDE HER DESTINY

A CONCILIATORY SPEECH

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received Jan. 27, 5.5 p.m.)

Paris, Jan. 25

Czernin added; "The population of Poland shall decide their own fate. This question must not delay peace for a single day. The interpretation of tie people's right of free action caused a difference between Russia and Germany, but a compromise must be reached. The difference is not sufficient to cause a cessation ; of, negotiations. When peace with Russia is secured a world peace] cannot be prevented. President Wil- i son's speech is an important advance towards the Austrian standpoint, but Austria will support Germany and Turkey to the utmost. Austria will reject all advice oix domestic affairs. Austria and America practically agree on tho great principles of the new "world settlement after the war, and our views on several concrete peace questions approach agreement. Our differences are insufficient to prevent a complete agreement, and exchanges of Austrian and American views might form a, starting point for conciliatory discussion between all the States which have not yet entered the negotiations."