Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-03
DUAL MONARCHY SEES NOTHING
BUT DISASTER IN CON.
TlNuiNG WAR.
PLEADS WITH GERMANY
TO END POSSIBILITIES
Austria Held in Line by Teuton Prom.
Use to Send 100000 Men to Aid
Forces Battling in Hunsary-Austria
Fears Loss Of Hungary and Disinte-
grafton Of Dual Monarchy.

London, Feb. 3.-The Daily Mail
featured the following dispatch from
it's Copenhagen correspondent:
From most trustworthy and well
informed source in Berlin l have re-
ceived the following information re-
garding the negotiations between
Baron\ Won Burian, the new Austrian
foreign minister, and the German
statesmen during Baron Won Burian's
recent visit to Berlin.
Baron Won Burian. whose sole OBJ
ject was to save what can he saved OF
the dual monarchy, represented the
situation of Austria as precarious. and
said that if the Russian advance on
Budapest was not stopped the effect
probably would be the downfall OF
Austria, and more particularly, the
collapse of Hungary, which later
would entail as a logical sequence the
downfall of Germany.
Demands Repulse Of Russians.
Therefore, Baron Won Burian urges.
the Russians must be repulsed at all
costs and Germany must send large re-
Inducements to Hungary. In any case,
he said. it was doubtful whether 1t
would be possible for them to resist
the Russians and Serbians and perhaps
also the Roumanians; therefore it was
necessary to examine the question OF
peace seriously.
"a definite defeat. he argued. would
hemans a debacle in Austria Hungary
and the partition of the empire. His
advice was that the possibilities of
tolerable peace be most seriously con-
sidered.
Doubtless. he said. sine qua non
of the allies demands would be the
partial disa rmament of Europe, includ-
ing Germany. because peace that was
nothing but truce for term of years
could not he acceptable to the allies,
however ardently they might wish
peace.
Some Of Sacrifices Offered.
THE Austrian foreign minister adj
vised Germany not to reject funda-
mentally the thought OF peace on the
grounds of the partial disarmament OF
Europe. II Germany were disposed to
treat on such terms, he said. he be-
lieved that other conditions imposed by
the allies would be tolerabic.
Perhaps he said. it would be nee
essary to give part Of Alsace to
France and to give some OF the Polish
provinces to a new. Poland, but that II
Russia would relinquish Russian
province and Austria part OK Galicia
to this new Poland no real sacrifice
for Germany would be entailed. Aus
tria would then leave the rest OF Cali
cha to Russia, Bukowina to Roumania,
and, if necessary, part of Bosnia and
Herzegovina to Servia and Montene-
gro.
The leading German statesmen ad-
mitted that Baron Won Burians inten-
tons were excellent. and to some ex-
tent his plan was justified by the cir
cumstances, but they declared that
such a peace would be more ruinous to
Germany than total defeat.
Fear Of British Navy.
The disarmament of Europe. they
contended, would mean that only the
armies would be disarlned while the
British navy would be able all the time
to rule the seas. Great Britain then
would be able to tyrannize over the
whole world and Germany would have
lost all chance of safeguarding her
commercial, Industrial. and economical
interests.
THE other terms sketchad by Baron
Won Burian-namely, the restoration
Of Belgium and northern France and
the recovery by Germany OF her col
cnies, were, they said, with the ex-
ception Of the REIMBURSEMENT to
France Of French Alsace and Of the
Polish provinces to Poland, no abso-
lutte hindrance to peace.
For the reasons above stated, how
ever, the German statesmen said that
negotiations were hopeless and that II
therefore was madness to take any
steps which would reveal a disposition
for peace on the part Of Germany and
Austria Hungary. as 1t would only
weaken their case.
Small Chance Of Victory.
Baron Won Burian thereupon ad-
mitted that there was no other way