Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-13
zRNTN SEES RULER,
PASSES LIE TO PARIS
.,;on Minister Insist S
SSs n.0mier "Prevaricated' Re
riding Emperor's Feelers
rOEAsoN' CRY IN BERLIN
,,o,,,rv Organs Demand Ally BE
Placed Under German
Tutelage

AMSTERDAM. April IL.
Ign Minister Czernin' lolIoWlne
Foreso with Emperor Charles IN
e'nie',"'he 'he Austrian Foreign once that
forneG IA "a premier Clemenceau' OF
k peu' ',.nreyaricadcd" regarding the
Pane alleged peace teeIers
bnpe'v, accurdins to Vienna dis
pstches. -, uo Eoreien Office to
,,.smInate this belief
Washington. April 10
- cern,an press is much excited
me revelations which the French
w. U.-nr,snt has made concerning the at
n IN, Emperor OF Auauia To-
tlus' ,he Nlsacp-Lorraiue question, ac-
NS ,,.s N an official dispatch received
e"' g.s,cb The Neuo Badishe Landes
.. nen .' announcing that the Chan
,,ror Of the empire !ett suuueI''y on
e'., e'w N ioin the Emperor at great
.,,Souarters. afiirms that the CONFER
heau4 uE srhich are to take place Will re-
,oys exclusively about the S''uallo"
,~,t ,,,,tsd by the revelations OF NJ Glenn
,nceau ,.,-, .,,,.,.as,o,da,,
:, ,bs Frankfurter Ieitung. in note OF
.,,,sme timidity. wrote tuesday eve
~ nat the high perSonag" mentioned
" inc F.,nch Premier in his reply TO
s,un, Czernin could not belong to the
ling mouse, every one ~ convinced
.ois,ly after the details furnished by
rsmsnceau, that the facts imputed to
y. cameron Of Austria are exact the
sp-ich dispatch stated
Press cries Treason
.Tbs organs Of the military party
:. irving treason and demand that
,.,,ra he placed under the tui~i"se
= he German Empire. The Neue Ba-
,.sSs Iandes Zeitung adds that the
c.,.,,r ambassador at Vienna called
Ss,sSay at Balplatz to present a COM
.nDication from his Government
4 disnatch from Paris treating Of the
.e,r N Emperor Charles said:
SThs Echo de Paris doubts the sin
..,,,,, q, Emperor Charles when he
.,ots his letter. II Austria wanted to
,r,nclpate herself from Berlin could
AL ,ot have given free hand to the
vo,,ian armies still active H. the time
D.,lin was undergoing a thousand d.fi-
utes?
.rbe most charitable Interpretation Is
A,t doubtful Of German success, vienna
,asmpted an interchange Of papers.
Thicb in case Of German defeat, would
have served as a counter-security to her
,nd which in case of a German success
would haze been the means of destroy
kg our coalition.
Point Out Ingrntitude
such is the servtuGe Of Austria. To
sre the master she must needs Simu-
hte independence. and today she will
have 10 expiate for this mrmicry. she
iyounded the world by her ingratituue
lt the time Of Schwarzenberg. She
FDl astound il by her lies.
The Figaro also remarks 1t would be
, grave mistake for the public to
imagine that an honorable peace could
possibly issue from the negotiations
nom Austria in 1917. The letter OF
Charles directly drove the French and
Re English into understanding CONVEX
slions with Germany in giving salts
hctions at certain essential points, but
4 made no allusion to Italy. which was
loo delicate point for Austria.
This voluntary omission sufTices in
Itself to show all that was artificial and
Fragile in the dispositions of Charles
ioward the Entente