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HIS REPLY ~
POPE'S OFFER
Hopes Some Progress May
Result Therefrom
AUSTRIA ALSO READY
Suggests Submitting international
Disputes to Compulsory Arbitration
To Eliminate War.

Amsterdam, sept. 2l.-Ine replies
Of both Germany and Austria Hun
gary to the Popes peace proposals
were made public here today
The German government in its re-
ply ''cherishes a lively DESIRE that
the appeal may meet with success.
Emperor William, the German note
says, has been following the efforts
of the Pope toward peace for con-
siderable time with high respect.
The Pope's idea of negotiations be-
tween the belligerents for an under
standing for simultaneous and re-
ciprocal reduction of ornaments on
land and sea, and in the air, by which
the high seas, which rightfully belong
to all nations will be opened equally
to us OF all, is supported by Emperor
Charles.
Peace would come from the recent
proposals of Pope Benedict If the bel
ligerent nations would enter into ne
gotiations in the sense of the Pontiffs
suggestions, Emperor Charles of Aus
tria-Hungary says in his reply. The
Emperor sees in the Pope's peace
plan a suitable basis for initiating ne
gotiations toward just and lasting
peace and expresses the hope that the
nations opposing his own may be ami
mated by the same ideas.
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
The Austrian reply, received here
in dispatch from Vienna, was hand
ed to Mgr.pT yalfre di Bonzo, the
papal nuncio at Vienna Thursday.
Austria-Hungary's ruler, the reply
said, received the Pontiffs note with
a thankful heart and with an express
sion of hope that the Pontiff's efforts
may lead to a realization of the EN-
peror's desire for lasting and hon
orable peace for all parties.
Freedom of the seas is one Of the
peace hopes of Emperor Charles in
order that heavy material burdens
could be taken from the nations OF
the earth and new sources of prosperI
ty opened to them.
The text of the German reply
reads:
Herr CARDINAL Your Eminanct
has been good enough, together with
your letter of Aug. 2, to transmit t
the Kaiser and King, my most graci
Gus master, the note Of his Holineses
the Pope, in which His Holiness
filled with grief at the devastation
of the world war makes an emphatic
peace appeal to the heads of the bell
gerent peoples. The Kaiser-King ha
deigned to acquaint me with You
Eminence's letter and to entrust tn
reply to me.
"HIis Majesty has been followin
for a considerable time with high n
spect and sincere gratitude His Hol
ness efforts in a spirit of true impa
tiality to alleviate as far as possibl
the sufferings of the war and to has
en- the end OF hostilities. The Kaise
sees in the latest step of His Hol
nesses. fresh proof of his noble an
human feelings, and cherishes liv
ly desire that for the benefit of th
entire world, the Papal appeal ma
meet with success"
The text Of the Austrian reply fc
lows:
Holy Father: With due vener
tion and deep emotion we take cogni
ance of the new representation Yol
Holiness in fulfilment of the Holy @
fee entrusted to you by God make
us and the heads OF the other bel
gerent states with the noble nte
ticn Of leading the heavily tried n
tions to a unity that will resto
peace TO them, ...
with a thankful heart we reeeiy,
this fresh gift of fatherly care whi,
you, Holy Father, always bestow
all peoples without distinction al
from the depth of our heart we gre
the moving exhortation which Yo
Holiness has addressed to the cover
ments OF the belllgerent peoples. d,
ing this cruel war we have alwa
looked up to Your Holiness as to [
highest parsonage who, in virtue
his mission which reaches beyo
earthly things and thanks to the hi
conception of his duties laid up
him. stands high above the bellig
ent peoples and who is inaccessible
all influence, was able to find a W
which may lead to the realization
our own desire for peace, lasting a
honorable for all parties.
"If. as we most heartily desi
agreements should be arrived at