GERMAN PRESS COMMENT.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14871, 20 September 1918, Page 5

GERMAN PRESS COMMENT.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE

AUSTRIAN NOTE

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) Amsterdam,' September 18. The German preys reluctantly recognises that Germany bears the responsibility for the Austrian Note, which is' the last act in long negotiations between Berlin and Vienna. The "Berliner TagoblattV Budapest correspondent asserts that tho Note was agreed upon in principle between Ijp.ron. Burian and Yon Hintze during the la tier's visit to Vienna. It was arranged thni when the adversaries'- offensive readied a certain stage mid the German army had taken r. t x> new positions, the. peace step should be unidertakon.

Austrian newspapers declare that Yon Payer when he made his speech was aware of Burian's project.