THE CENTRAL POWERS.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14865, 12 September 1918, Page 5

THE CENTRAL POWERS.

AUSTRIAN WAR WEARINESS.

■PACIFIST SPEECH BY BURIAN.

{Reuters Telegrams.)

(Received Sept. 11, 7.30 p.m.)

London, Sept. 10. Renter's. Amsterdam correspondent states' that Baron Burian, in a strongly pacifist speech to German journalists visiting Vienna, contended that the belligerents' .efforts to attain their respective war aims did not justify the hugo sacrifices that were still necessary. Therefore he suggested that the adversaries should provide an opportunity for a calm exchange of views. He believed that some sort" of direct informal discussion was possible which would in no wise be peace negotiations- He exhorted the pressmen to cultivate these views.