Evening star., 1915-02-01
NO HOPE Of PEACE,
TEUTONS CONCLUDE
Austrian Foreign Minister Re-
:, ported as Convinced the
f., War Must Go On.
HIS MISSION TO BERLIN
WAS TO SAVE MONARCHY
Willing to Make Sacrifices to End
Conflict. But Germans Promised
Heavy Reinforcements.

ncdVy nclulOlCCmCHtS.
LONDON. February 1.-The Copen-
hagen correspondent of the Daily Mail
asserts that Baron Burian, the Austro-
Hungarian foreign minister. at ms re
cent meeting with the German EN-
peror drew a doleful picture OF the
plight of the dual monarchy and urged
that the time had arrived foT the Ger
manic powers to consider most seri-
ously the possibilities 70: tolerabic
peace.
The Daily Mail attaches great ilnpor-
tancc to the dispatch. which is dated
Thursday and was delayed in trans
mission. The dispatch says:
From q most trustworthy anu Net'
informed source in Berlin received
the following statement regarding 'he
negotiations between the German
statesmen and Baron Burian. who re-
Gently visited the German chancellor IN
Berlin and Emperor William at the
army headquarters in France.
Fears Downfall of Monarchy.
Baron Burian. whose sole object II is
TO save what can be saved of the dual
monarchy represented to the Germans
that the situation in Austria was pre-
carious and that if the Russian ad-
vance on Budapest is not stopped the
effect may very probably lie the down
fall of Austria and the complete COZ
lapse of Hungary. which must later ~ ~
tail. as logical sequence aiso '"e
downfall of Germany.
Therefore, Baron Burian urged that
the Russians must at all costs De re-
pulsed and that Germany must send large
reiuforcements to Hungary to prevent
catastrophe. In any case, he said. II was
doubtful it il would be possible for them
to resist the Russians and Serbians and
perhaps also the Roumanians. Therefore
il was necessary seriously to examine into
the question of peace.
Urged a ''Tolerable" Peace.
a definite defeat would mean a debacle
for Austria Hungary and the partition of
the empire His advice to Germany was
TO consider most seriously the possibilities
of toierable peace. He advised Ger
many not to reject fundamentally the
thought of peace on the grounds of
probable disarmament of Europe. IL Ger
many 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 AL
SAGE to France and to give up some Polish
provinces to a new Poland, but if Russia
would relinquish a province and Austria
q part of Galicia to Poland no real sacri-
hce for Germany would be entailed.
Austria would then leave the rest of
Galicia to Russia and Bukowina to Rou-
mania and, If necessary. a part of Bos-
MIA and Herzegovina to Serbia and Mon
tenegro
The leading German statesmen ad-
n1itted Baron Burian's intentions were
excellent and. to some extent, justified
by circumstances, but they declared
that such peace would be more ruin
Gus to Germany than total defeat Dis
armament of Europe, they contended.
would only mean that Great Britain
would be able to tyrannize the whole
world. and Germany would have lost
all chance for safeguarding her COM
mercial, industrial and economic inter-
ests.
The other terms advanced by
Baron Burian-namely, the status quo
ante-bellum, that is to say say the
France, but also the recovery by Ger
many of her colonies-were, with the
exception of the REIMBURSEMENT to
France of French Alsace and of the
Polish provinces to Poland, no absolute
hindrance to peace.
For the reasons set forth the German
statesmen declared the negotiations for
peace are hopeless and that therefore
il 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 thereupon admitted
that there was no other way than to
reject all ideas of peace and TO take
ali chances and all risks in continuing
the war, in the hope that something
undreamt OF might occur to save them
Perhaps disagreement among the al
lies or some great victory might prove
their salvation.
The Germans agreed that it was nee
essary to dispatch reinforcements to
Hungary, and promised to transfer
troops up to the number Of one million
by spring. One and one half million
soldiers would be sent to France as a
last attempt to crush the allies and
force peace.
These are said TO have been the main
points of the negotiations between the
German statesmen and Baron Burian.
but, of course. number OF special
questions also were discussed and set
tled.'
Hungarian Premier Optimistic.
BUDAPEST. via Amsterdam and Lon
don, February Count Stephan Tisza,
the Hungarian premier. in the course
of a speech here on the relations Of
Austria and Hungary and of Austria
Hungary and Germany. said:
The war already has been tri-
umph in fusing together our peoples
1t has brought very near together the
feel that we must keep together. Ev-
erybody who is an Austrian patriot
feels what great force Hungary is in
the monarchy"
In referring to Germany, Count Tisza
said: III ever there were two allies
who can have absolute confidence In
each other this Is a case now. We will
witness the glorious exploits of our
German allies with enthusiasm, free
from paltry feeling