Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-02-10
EUROPEAN WAR sIDELIGHTs.
Interesting Reported Exchange of Ar
garments, Austria and Germany.


high in authority in Austria and
Germ@ny IS very pertinent at this
time, Austria-Hungary has been re-
ported for some weeks to be in such
frame Of mind as to make the possi-
Dtltty OF rlasonable terms of peace
very attractive to her. Taken in con-
neCtion with these rumors of the
later days Of January, the following
account given by a newspaper cor
respondent at Copenhagen, is inter-
csting In the extreme:
"FrOm r most Trustworthy and
well informed source in Berlin | re-
CeiYId the following statement re-
gardinB he negotiations between the
German statesman and Baron Burian,
who recently visited the German
chancellor in Berlin and Emperor
William at the army headquarters in
France
Baron Burian, whose sole object
is TO save what can be saved Of the
dual monarchy, represented to the
Germans that the situation in Aus
tria was precarious and that if the
Russian advance on Budapest is not
stopped the effect may 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
Wherefore Baron Burian urged
that The Russians must at all costs
be repnlscd and that Germany must
send large reinforcements to Hun
gary 10 prevent catastrophe. In any
ease, y" said, it was doubtful if it
would b.. possible for them to resist
the Russians and Servians and per-
haps also the Roumanians There
fore q va" necessary seriously to eX-
anime into the question Of peace.
q dehnite defeat would mean
debac!r for Austria-Hungary and the
partition Of the Empire. His advice
DO G@lmADy was to consider seriously
the possibilities of tolerable peace.
! he I'd Used Germany not to reject
tunda antally the thought of peacc
on tn" rounds of probable dl6arm-
ament Of Europe. If Germany were
! d!spo"rj to treat on such terms he
believed The other countries would
/ re tclorable. Perhaps it would be
I necessary to leave the French part
I %. !~Isaro 10 france and to give IN
! .ome Polish provinces 20 a new Po-
! land, out il Russia would ralinquish
a province and Austria, a part Of Ga-
!l"i.. 70 Poland 40 real sacrifice for
@c"uaDy would be entailed.
kus'ria then would leave the rest
! OF .3li2ia to Russia and Bukowina to
( N.t man %, and, If necessary a part
/ ni 'osua and Herzegovina to Ser
! vi. "ud Montenegro.
/ Eve Aading German statesmen
adH1t"a Baron Burian's intentions
: "cr. %E llent, and to some extent
/ Na.ihea " circumstances, but they
/ declared nat such peace would be
! more Tuirous to Germany than total
| .@I"tI Disarmament of Europe,
( t'"E con ended, would only mean
/ .Na Gro@ Britain would be able to
! tyanni&o the whole world, and Ger
aany would have lost all chance for
Safeguarding her commercial, indus
I .~g ana economic Interests.
Nhe uther terms advanced by
I R4'3n Burian, namely, the status quo
'.. -hejlU N, that Is to say, the re-
: storing @. Belgium and Northern
! I'r.1ce, h'tt also the recovery by Ger
10. 8 Cl her colonies were, with the
f. anii"a of the relinquishment 20
r"pce Of French Alsace and of the
i'n'.sh lrbVinces to Poland, no abso-
+. hin nee to peace.
or lie re sons set forth the Ger
MA statesmen declared the nego =
-.au" IC' peace are hopeless and tn c
3D., aforc 1t would be madness to
,"2 an" steps revealing disposition
| fa peace on the part Of Germany and
AHsirIa-, iungary, as this would only
ikea 1neir case.
Baron Burian thereupon admit
Ie" that here was no other way than
10 eject all ideas OF peace and to
take al chances and risks in continu-
~: tha war in the hope that some
. Ing urlreamed of might occur to
save 'holn. Perhaps disagree
mcut among the allies or some great
pi..oIy night prove their salvation.
Ihn Germans agreed that it was
eSs3ry to dispatch reinforcements