The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-01
SECRET WAR HISTORY TOLD BY
 COUNT CzERUM

Vienna, Oct 1. - Interesting ex-
 tracts from the memoirs of Count 1 Czernin, the late Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister, which are to be is- l sued in the next few days, entitled, 1 The World War; are published in ] the Wiener Mittagspost. The book consists of twelve chapters. It starts with European events in 1914. France | and Great Britain, accor ding to Count CZernin, did not at that time want war. Roumania and Italy were con- fronted with accomplished facts. Other noteworthy remarks scatter | ed through the book are: "Bismarck's heritage has been a curse for Ger many; Kaiser Wilhelm was a pris- oner Of his generals; The German in Vasion of Belgium was the greatest
 nIisfortune"; Herr von Tshirshky (the German Ambassador in Vienna> was the German Tsvolaki''
 The second chapter, headed. .Ko- nopischt," describes the character of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand 1 His was 2 well-balanced (ausgegIt- 1 cheney nature,' says the Count, but i enbittered and filled with fantasticaI an1tpathy to everything Hungarian The cooler his relations with the Emperor Francis Joseph became, the | more he felt himself drawn towards i Kaiser Wilhelm. A Three e-Emperor 1 Alliance of Austria Hun gary. Ger ! many, and Russia ought, in his view, 1 to have been formed as a bulwark 1 against revolution. He was not in 1 favor, however, of a closer political 1 union with Germany. He was no jim | go, and was in general not unfriendIy l disposed towards Serbia
 1 Count Czernin, in one passage, says | the German Crown Prince in 1917 1 was an avowed pacifst.
 The chapter "Roumania" opens | with the authors becoming ambassa- l dor at Bucharest in the autumn of
 1913. When the news of the murder l of the Archduke Trans Ferdinand reached Bucharest M. Take Jonescu wept, and the entire Roumanfan capital mourned with him. Then suddenly came a swing round, and ultimately concessions in Hungary l were demanded for Roumania's neu- | trality, but Count Tisza refuse
 these.
 Count Czernin then becomes For 1 eign Minister, and, just as Prince 1 Hohenlohe does, warns against the
 ruthless submarine war. An interest l ing chapter headed Peace Eforts'' is ] already fairly familiar. According to l Count Czernin, 1t was Nicholas IL. l who initiated the peace feeIer of Feb- l ruary, 1917.
 T The Russian revolution then broke | out. In the course of his peace ef- | forts Count Czernin received from
 the German Chancellor. Dr. Mi l chaelis, a, letter in which the latter | said he desired to bring Belgium,
 Courland, Ldthuania, and Poland into | close military and economic connec- ] ton with Germany, and to make | Longwy and Brody of economic utility l to Germany.
 The Supreme Army Command de- l manded on its part the military con l tro1 of Belgium, and that it should l enter into an offensive and defensive | alliance with Germany. It also de- | 1nanded Iiege and the Flanders coast. In chapter entitled "Wilson'' | Count Czernin asserts that an attempt l to reach an understanding with the | President was interrupted by his own 1 resignation.
 Regarding Poland, Count Czernin 1 says one of the principal opponents to an Austro-Polish solution was l Count Tisza. During the Brest-Litovsk | peace negotiations even the BuIgar- l lanS assumed q threatening aLLl- | tude.
 The Germans assumed the Entente 1 might agree to 8 general peace. l Marshal von Htndenburg sent furious | telegran1s saying they were giving up | everything. General Ludendorff tele- | phoned hourly. General Hofnann l brought about a failure of the nego- l tiations in order to knock the Rus
 sians on he head once more and to advance on Petrograd, while the | Kaiser sent telegram demanding
 Livonia and Esthonia. This was the | mood in which the peace was to be
 concluded.
 One point of a chapter entitled
 '"The Peace of Bucharest is that
 Germany demanded that her occupa- tons of Rounania should continue
 for four to six years after a. general peace.
 Count Czernin, in his final reec- tions deals with the Versailles peace
 and the world danger of Boishe- vism," and hopes the present state
 of things will be corrected by the l f11t11ra ,oaparafioo