The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-02-04

consider most seriously the poSsihili
ties for ,olcrable peace
I The Daily Mail attaches great i'm
portance 10 the despatch, which Il
dated Thursday and was delayed il
Transmission. The despatch says:
"From a trustworthy and well in
formed source in Berlin ] received tn
following statement regarding the ne
gotiations between the German states
men and Baron Bruian. who recent!
visited the German chancellor in Der
lin and Emperor William at the arm,
headquarters in France.
Baron Burian, whose sole object i
to save what can be saved Of the Qua
monarchy, represented to the Germans
that the situation in Austria was pre-
carious and that il the Russian ad
vance on Budapest is not stopped tho
effect may very probably be the down
fall of Austria and the complete col
lapse Of Hungary, which must later
entail, as logical sequence, also the
downfall Of Germany.
Therefore Baron Burian urged tina,
the Russians must at all costs be re-
pulsed and that Germany must send
large reinforcements to Hungary To
prevent catastrophe. In any case,
he said it was doubtful If it would be
possible for them to resist the Rus
slams and Siberians, and perhaps also
the Roumanians. Therefore, it was
seriously TO examine into the question
Of peace.
"a definite defeat would mean a
debacle for ustria-Hungary and the
partition Of the empire. His advice to
Germany was TO consider most seri-
ously the possibilities of tolerable
peace. He advised Germany not to
reject fundamentally the thought of
peace on the grounds of a probable
disarmament of Europe. If Germany
were disposed to treat on such terms
he believed the other conditions would
be tolerable. Perhaps it would be
necessary to leave the French part of
Alsaee to France and to give up some
Polish provinces to a new Poland, but
If Russia would relinquish province
and Austria a part of Galicia to Po-
land, no real sacrifice for Germany
would be entailed.
austria would then leave the rest
of Galicia to Russia and Bukowina to
Roumania and, if necessary, part OF
Bosnia and Herzegovina to Servia and
Montenegro.
"The leading German statesmen ad-
mitted Baron Burian's intentions were
and, to some extent, justified
by circumstances; but they declared
that such a peace would be more ruin
GUS to Germany than total defeat.
Disarmament of Europe, they contend
ed, would only mean that Great Brit
ain would be able to tyrannize the
whole world and Germany would have
lost all chance for safeguarding her
commercial, industrial and economic
"The other terms advanced by
Baron Burian namely the status quo
ante bellum, that is to say the restor-
ing of Belgium and northern France,
but also the recovery by Germany OF
her colonies, were, with the exception
of the REIMBURSEMENT to France OF
French Alsace and Of the Polish pro-
vinces to Poland, no absolute hindrance
TO peace.
"For the reasons set forth the Ger
man statesmen declared the negotia-
tons for peace are hopeless and that,
therefore, it would be madness to take
any steps revealing disposition for
peace on the part of Germany and
Austria Hungary, as this would only
weaken their case.
"Baron Burian therupon admitted
that there was no other way than to
reject all ideas of peace and to take all
chances and all risks in continuing
the war, in the hope that something
lndreamt of might occur to save them.
Perhaps disagreement among the
allies or some great victory might
prove their salvation.
"The Germans agreed that it was
necessary to despatch reinforcements
10 Hungary and promised to transfer
troops to the number Of one million by
spring. One and one-half million sol
iiers would be sent to France as last
attempt to crush the allies and force
peace.
"These are said to have been the
main points Of the negotiations be-
tween the German statesmen and
Baron Burian, but Of course number
Of special questions were also discuss
I'd and settled"
BONNEVILLE