The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-17
".SENSELESS AND
PURPOSELESS
BLOODSHED"
Foreign Minister Burian Of Austria Calls
the Continuation of the War--Ap-
peaIs to feelings of Human
ity' in the Allies.

Amsterdam, July 1.-THE Austro-
Hungarian government regards the war
as "senseless and purposeless bloodshed"
and believes it might be ended at the
moment when the allies again manifest
feelings of humanity. Baron Burian, the
Austro- Hungarian foreign minister, made
this statement in the concluding portion
of his address to the Austrian and Hun
garian premiers Tuesday, according to
dispatches from Vienna.
After declaring the allies would not
succeed in their purpose of sowing dis
cord among the nationalities in the dual
monarchy, the foreign minister said
at is unnecessary further TO charac-
terize this method of fighting. Our races
Indignantly disavow it. The resolute
battle of defense now must be carried
on to good end until it brings us the
security necessary for our future peace
full existence"
There should be no public belief that
diplomatic action and warlike action are
inseparahle The foreign minister de-
clared warfare and diplomacy served the
same end in time Of war, adding:
"1n every step it takes, diplomatic ac-
tivity will pay due regard to the war.
The results of the conduct of the war
will have determining influence on the
division Of labor. On the other hand,
diplomacy has duty, being continually
on the watch and paying heed to possi-
bilities Of effective action.
"Thus and not otherwise should will
ingness of central powers for peace be
conceived 1t will not for the moment
hamper the invincible defense, but after
victorious battles, just as during pauses
in a battle, it will, even without new
peace offers, always be intent in recall
ing that we regard this war as sense
less and purposeless bloodshed, which
might at any moment be ended by the
re-emergence Of feelings of humanity
in our enemies.
"In so far as they are not aiming at
the acquisition of territory, they are
fighting against windmill. They are
exhausting their strength and ours in
order to build on the ruins of civiliza-
tion new arrangement of the world,
whereas the ideas underlying such an
arrangement, which are capable of real
ization and which also are warmly ap-
proved by us, might be realized much
more easily and much more completely
by the peaeeable cooperation of all peo.
pies.
"In spite Of all, we look ever more
hopefully toward the people now at war
with us to see whether at last they have
been delivered from the blindness which,
after fearful affliction in four years of
war, is driving the world ever farther
into that destruction which they can
avoid if they only will"
The foreign minister said his conf
dence was based on the war alliances,
particularly the alliance with Germany
He said Austria and Germany would
seek means Of extending the alliance SO
that it would be adequate for the re-
quirements of new times.
I'm these endeavors," he declared, "the
governments know they are in agree
ment with the desires Of the prepond-
Grating mass of their people. The al
lance will henceforth, as hitherto, pre-
serve its exclusively defensive character
It also viii rest firmly on the satisfac-
tory solution of all questions and on the
necessities of joint concern which have
arisen from the war. 1t must, there.
fore, not only cover political relation.
ships of the two powers, but also must
lead to changes under altered condi-
tions.
Economic, military and other rela-