The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-21
END IF HE WAR
 BELIEVED CLOSE
Young Countess Attempts Suicide Rather Than
 Marriage

Vienna, April Special )--News
 Teaching here from Constantinopie leads to the belief that the war be-
 tween Italy and Turkey soon will be
 ended. It is stated from semi-official
 and unusually reliable sources that the prospect of peace proposals capable of
 being actually entertained has been discussed.
 | The change of public feeling in Con stantinople is considered here to be connected with the general elections for the Turkish parliament. Reports from various parts of the Turkish empire agree that in the new parliament the Young Turks will have a strong two thirds majority and 1t is concluded that with the help of this party, the possi- bility of peace will at once become more favorable
 The Piccolo of Trieste claims on the strength of authoritative and unex- |ceptionable" information that the speech and bearing of NJ. Poincare, in connection with the Manouba affair prevented the conclusion of an Anglo T'ranco-Italian convention in regard 60
 the Mediterranean, to which Russia would have adhered. The object of this convention was to preclude the penetration of any other great power into the Mediterranean and to rein force the position of France and Eng land in the Leyant. Unfortunately. adds the dispatch, the Ill starred Franco Italian incidents rendered impossible the continuation of the final negotia tions.
 While leaving to the Trieste journal entire responsibility for the "revela- ton" 1t must be said that its state rnents are not absolutely secuted here in quarters sufficiently informed to be entitled to express an opinion It may however, be doubted whether the last word upon the balance of naval power in the Mediterranean has been Sai1 and whether, in spite of the unfortu- nate effects of the Manouba incident
 Italy will suffer herself to be made an
 instrument of German naval policy.
 Countess Katinka Andrassy, a love
 y girl of 19 and the belle of the Bud apest season. is lying in hospital there with bullet wound in her side
 The countess lives with her step father, Count Julius Andrassy, who married his deceased brothers wife. Relatives had urged the girl to marry a man she did not love. After long resistance she finally gave way and the betrothal was about to be pros claimed. The girl, seeing no hope of escape, went with her maid and pur- Iehased a revolver She then returned home and shot herself in the region of the heart. Her relatives made great efforts to keep the affair secret and did not notify the authorities, but had the unconscious girl wrapped in a sheet and conveyed 10 a distant hospital in a motor car. The physicians have -ex- tracted the bullet, but consider that the countess condition Is critical.
 A party of II skiers was over whelmed by an avalanche near the summit of the Schneeberg, near Vienna, and 10 persons were killed Two wood cutters coming down the mountain heard groans from beneath the snow
 They dug hastily and discovered lady with clothes torn and so exhaust ed there was little hope for her. She gasped "Avalanche Dig deeper!p and then tainted.
 They laid her on the snow and after much work recovered the corpse of the leader of the party, Dr. Hacker and then conveyed Fraulein Blanka Tagleicht, who Is the sole survivor, to the hotel. Nine bodies including one woman have been recovered. It is re- markable that the faces of all the vic tims wear happy expressions which would seem to indicate that death was instantaneous. The Austrian Emperor has expressed his sympathy with the families of the victims and requested that all fresh details be communicated to him immediately.