The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-02-03
pleads TO KAISER
TO ACCEPT PEACE
Austrian Minister Urges
Germany To Accept
: Terms.

LONDON. Feb. s-The copen
hagen correspondent OF the Daily Mail
asserts that Baron Burian, the Aus
tro.Hungarian foreign minister. at his
recent meeting with German emper.
or, derw a doleful picture OF the plight
OF the dual monarchy, and urged that
the time had arrived for the q erman.
ic powers TO consider most seriously
the possibilities for a tolerable peace.
The Daily Mail attaches great i'm,
portance to the dispatch, which IL
dated Thursday and was delayed In
transmission. The dispatch says:
From a most trustworthy and we'll
informed source in Berlin, I received
the following statement regarding the
negotiations between the German
statesmen and Baron Burlan, who re.
Gently visited the German chancellor
In Berlin and Emperor William at the
army Headquarters in France.
Willing to Yield Territory.
Baron Burlan. whose sole object
It Is, to save what can be saved Of the
dual monarchy, represented to the
Germans that the situation in Austria
was precarious. II the Russian ad.
vance on Budapest Is not stopped the
effect may very probably be the down.
fall OF Austria, which must entail
the downfall OF Germany.
Therefore Baron Burian urged
that the Russians must at all costs be
repulsed and that Germany must
send large reinforcements to Hun.
gary"
Would Accept Disarmament.
"A definite defeat would mean a de.
bacle for Austria.IIungary and the
partition of the empire. His advice 10
germany was to consider seriously
possibilities of a tolerable peace. he
ADVISED Germany not to reject fun
olan:entally the thought Of peace OH
the grounds of probable disarma
ment OF Europe. If Germany were
disposed to trent on such terms, he
believed the other conditions would be
tolerable. Perhaps 1t would be neces
sary to leave the French part O,
Aisace to France and to give up some
Polish provinces to new Poland
but IL Russia would relinouish 4
part Of Galicia to Poland. no real sac.
rallce for Germany would be entailed.
Austria would then leave the rest
OF Galicia to Russia and Bukowina
to 1toumania and, IL necessary, a par,
OF Bosnia and Herzegovina to Siberia
and Montenegro.
Draw Line at pisarmlna.
The leading German statesmen ad.
mitted Baron Burian's intentions
were excellent, but they declared that
such a peace would be more ruinous
to Germany than total defeat. Dis.
armament OF Europe, they contended,
would only mean that Great Britain
would be able to tyranize the whole
world, and Germany would have lost
all chance for safeguarding her in.
dustrial and economic interests. 7.
1.-THE other terms advanced by Bar.
on Burian 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 Ger.
man statesmen declared the negotia
lions for peace are hopeless, and that,
therefore, 1t would be madness to
take any steps revealing a DISPOSE.
ton for peace.
War the Only Chance.
Baron Burian thereupon admitted
that there was not other way than to
reject all ideas Of peace and to take
chances in continuing the war.
1.-THE Germans agreed that 1t was
necessary to dispatch reinforcements
to Hungary, and promised to trans.
fer troops up to the number OF one
million by spring. One and one-half
million soldiers would be sent to
France as last attempt to crush the
allies and force peace"