Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-09-18
BEGINNING PEACE OFFENSIVE.
Austria and Other Central Powers
Give Out Intimations.

Amsterdam, Sept. 15.-In extend
ing an invitation to all the ,belliger-
ent nation to enter q nonIbinding dis
cussion at some neutral place the
stro-Hungarian government states
( that the object Of the conference
would be to secure an exchange Of
views which would show whether
those prerequisites exist which would
make the speedy Inauguration Of
pea aces nsgotiattons appear promis-
The Austrian PROPOSAL which Is an
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SSgestsS that. here q he no terTnp ption 6f
the wal and tina til g discussions
would go only SO far as considered
I by the participants to offer prospects
\: OF success"
Not Binding.
The proposals call for all the bel
1igerents to send delegates for a
confidential and unbinding discus
sion on the basic principles for the
conclusion of peace in a place in
neutral country and at near date
that would yet have to be agreed
upon"
The proposal says the conference
"o"AN oS VIC VI uSlCSdlcS w no
would be charged to make known to
one another the conception of their
governments regarding those princi-
pies and to receive analogous COM
muntcations as we'll as to request and
give frank and candid explanations
on all those points which need to be
precisely Defined
Widely Advertised.
Tho oouoron,opt A1,.A
note embodying it's suggestions had
been addressed to the various bellig-
erent powers and that the Holy See
had been apprised of the proposal in
a special note. The governments OF
the neutral States also had been ac-
quainted with the proposal.
An Interesting Document.
The following is one of the Ger
man-Bolshevik official documents now
in the hands Of the United States
government:
(Counter-espionage Stavka, Janu-
ary 81. 1918.-No. 215.)
TO the Commissariat OF Foreign
Affairs: We hereby advise you of the
arrival in Mogilev Of the following
German officers, who are being order
ed to England, France and America:
Zanwald, Won Weine, Pabst,
Mayer, GruenWaldt and Baron Schii-
ling. They have been granted pass
ports, sent here by Commissar Trot-
zky.
Won Weine, with a Danish pass
port In the name OF Hansen, a mer-
chant Of Copenhagen, is to proceed to
England.
Baron Schilling is ordered to the
United States Of America with Nor
wegian passport in the name of Dr..
Joseph Brun
Gruenwaldt has instructions to
proceed to France with q Russian
passport in the name Of Ivan Kalnin.
The remaining persons are to
make journey through England and
Sweden, supplied with papers from
the German staff, in order to follow
uD the counter-revolutiona work
OF countries allied to us.-Chief of
Counter-espionage Feierabend.
(Note.-A young German who said
he was deserting officer and that
his name was Mayer, sought the aid
Of the embassy, the military mission
and myself in getting to America. He
was good-looking young Prussian,
had lived in New York, spoke Eng
lish with very little accent, and
claimed to have been converted to
the Presidents views on peace re-
quisites. He said he had walked
across the lines as a deserter because
he could stand no more Of German
war and that he wanted to go to the
United states to talk and write
against Germany. ] was not receipt
i've. he said he was a liueetnant,,