Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-22
Austria Hungary Declares
War Can Be Ended Now
With Honor for All.
GERMANY ALSO AGREES
Kaiser Expresses Lively
Desire That Pontiff's
Appeal Be Accepted.

AMSTERDAM. Sept. 21-The Ger
man government In its reply to the
peace note of Pope Benedict, copy
of which has been received here.
"cherishes lively desire that the
appeal may meet with success.
Emperor William. the German
note says, has been following the ef-
forts of the pope toward peace for
considerable time with high respect.
AMSTERDAM, Sept 21.-Peace
would come from the recent pro-
posals of Pope Benedict If the bellig-
erent nations would enter into ne
gotiations in the sense of the pom
tiff's suggestion, Emperor Charles of
Austria Hungary says in his reply to
the vatican note. The emperor sees
In the pope's peace plan suitable
basis for starting negotiations toward
a Just and lasting peace and expresses
the hope that the nations opposing
his own may be animated by the
same idea.
The Austrian emperor admits that
the future arrangement of the world
must be based on the elimination Of
armed force and on the rule Of inter-
national justice and legality.
Austria Is prepared, the reply states,
to enter into negotiations for the sub
mission OF international disputes TO
compulsory arbitration.
Austro- Hungary's ruler received the
pontiff's note with thankful heart
and with an expression OF hope that
the pontiffs efforts may lead to the
realization of the emperor's desire for
lasting and honorable peace for all
parties.
Freedom of the seas is one of the
peace hopes of Emperor Charles In
nrdap haaNV nlafarinl burdens
could be taken from the nations OF
the earth and new sources of prosper
ity opened to them.
The reply received here in a dispatch
from Vienna was handed to Monsignor
Il. Valfre di Bonzo, the papal nuncio
at Vienna, on Thursday.
The complete text of the Austrian
note follows:
Holy Father: With the venera-
ton and deep emotion we take cogni-
zance of the new representations
your holiness in in fulfillment of the
holy office entrusted you by God
make to us the heads of the other
belligerents states with the noble in
tention of leading the heavily tried
nations to a unity that will restore
peace to them.
with thankful heart We re-
ceived this fresh gift of fatherly care
stow on all peoples without distinc-
ton and from the depths of our heart
we greet the moving exhortation
Wincn your holiness has addressed
To the governments of the belligeren'
peoples. During this cruel war we
have always looked up to your holi-
ness as to the highest parsonage who
in virtue of his mission which reaches
beyond earthly things and thanks tt
the high conception of his duties laid
upon him, stands high above the
belligerent peoples and who is mac
cessible to all influence, was able tt
find way which may lead to the
realization of our own desire fol
peace, lasting aud honorable, for al
parties.
Always Sought Peace.
Since ascending to the throne o.
our ancestors aud fully conscious o.
the responsibility which we bear be
fore God and men for the fate of thu
Austro- Hungarian monarchy, WI
have never lost sight OF the high ain
of restoring our peoples as speedily
as possible the blessings of peace
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