The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-04
AUSTRIAN EMPIRE
CONSIDERS PEACE
Baron Burian Known to Have
Discussed Terms With Ger
many-KaiSer Opposed
to Laying Down Arms.

London. Feb 1.-The Copenhagen
correspondent OF the Daily Mail asserts
that Baron Burian. the Austrian foreign
minister, at his recent meeting with the
German emperor, drew doleful picture
OF the plight of the dual monarchy and
urged that the time had arrived for the
GermaniC powers to consider most Sc
riously the possibilities for a t0lerable
peace.
The Daily Mail attaches great impOr-
lance to the dispatch. Shich is dated
Thursday and was delayed in transmits
sion. The dispatch says:
From most trustworthy and we'll
informed source in Berlin received the
Following statement regarding the ne
gotiations between the German states
man, Baron Burian, who recently visit
ed the German chancellor in Berlin, and
Emperor William. at the army head
quarters in France.
Fear Empires Fall.
BARRON Burian. whose sole object 1t
Is to save what can be saved of the
dual monarchy, reported to the Ger
mans that the situation in Austria was
preCarfous and that If the Russian ad-
vance on Budapest is not stopped the
effect may very probably be the down
fall of Austria and the complete col
lapse of Hungary, which must later en-
tail as logical sequence also the
downfall of Germany.
Therefore Baron Burian urged that
the Russians must at all costs be re
pulsed and that Germany must send
large rCinfOrCementS to Hungary to
prevent catastrophe. In any case. he
said, 1t was doubtful If it would be pos
siblc for them to resist the Russians
and Serbians and perhaps the Rumani-
ans. Therefore, it was necessary Sc
riouSly to examine into the question Of
aeaCC
Discuss Peace Terms.
"A definite defeat would mean a de-
baCle for Austria Hungary and the par
iitiOn of the empIe. His visit to Ger
many was to consider most seriously
the possibilities Of tOlerable peace. He
advised Germany not to reject tunda-
mentally the thought OF peace on tho
grounds of a probable disarmament Of
Europe. If Germany were disposed to
treat on such terms he believed tho
nther conditions would be tOlerable
Perhaps it would be necessary to leave
the French part Of AlsaCe to France
md To give up some Polish provinces
to rev Poland, but if Russia would re-
inuuish "A province and Austria part
VI GaliCia to Poland no real sacrifice
for Germany would be entailed.
austria then would leave the rest
nf GaliCia to Russian and BukowlnI
to Rumania, and if necessary. par
and Montenegro.
Opposed by Germany.
"Thu leading German statesmen ad
nitted Baron Burian's intentions vert
excellent and to some extent iustifici
- circumstances. but they declare
that such Il peace would be mort
"uinous to Germany than total defeat
Disarmament OF Europe. they contend
I'd. would only mean that Great Brit.
Sin would be able to tyranniZe thi
'ThOlC world and Germany would havt
lost all chance for safeguarding hei
commercial, industrial! and economit
interests"
The other terms advanced bt
Baron Rurian, namely the status qut
ante bcllum, that is to say the re-
storing of Belgium and nOrther1
France and also the recovery by Ger
many Of her colonies were with thi
exception Of the REIMBURSEMENT Il
France of French Alsace and of thi
Polish provinces to Poland, no abSO.
lutte hindrar"C to peace.
Peac. Plans tIora:ess.
"For TIE reasons set r,:tH. the Ger.
man - 't2tn2n dcri0T2} thr negotin.
lions pcurH are HNpc,r=a and that
therefo~~ Il would be yradc7H" to TAXI
any stcls revealing !" c';l.,:tion fol
peace on the part o. Ge' .l&I" AMI
Austria Hungary, as tn I,cu!@ ONLY
weaken their case.
"Baron Burial thcreupor GI:,.lttci
that there was 10 other W3y tran t
reject all IDEAS of peace GnG 70 '"k'
chances and all risks IN continuing ."i
war in the hop" thai the TnGra&E,":
of might OCcIr rs save time. Perhant
II Disagreement among tha allies az
some great Nict'ry might prove thrir
salvation.
1.-The Germans aP"n>d that II was
necessary to dispatch TeinfOrcements tG
Hungary and prom led to transfer
troops up to the number OF 100000 by
spring. one miIio1. five hundred
thousand soldiers Weld he sent to
France as a last at'":"pt to crush the
allies and force pea:
''These are said t. nave been the
main points OF the negotiations be
tween the German statesmen and
Baron Burian, but, Of course. a num-
bCr Of special questions also we're dis
CuSEed ard settled"