Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-29 | Page 2 | Negotiating for Publishing Prewar Documents

NEGOTIATING FOR PUBLISHING PREWAR PRE-WAR DOCUMENTS 1 BERLIN, Nov. 27 (By the Associated t'rese.) The German-Austrian national council Is negotiating with tho Hungarian and Czech governments for the purpose of securing their co-operation In the publication pub-lication of diplomatic prewar documents and in an Investigation into tho responsibility responsi-bility for and conduct of the war, the Vienna correspondent of the Vosslscho Zoitung reports. Recent revelations have been made, he sa s, to the effect that former Emperor Charles had secretly drawn l,5i'0,OOU crowns on the army account, while charged Involving Archduke Frederick and other high officers in connection with army contracts also are to be looked into. Tho diplomatic Investigation will be directed di-rected chiefly against Count Berchtold, who was Austro-Hungarian foreign minister min-ister whon the war broke out, and Count Czernin, . later the occupant of that portfolio, port-folio, the latter being accused of summarily sum-marily rejecting alleged American peace proposals in- the fall of -1917 and at the beginning of the present year. The. statement niade in the-Bavarian disclosures to the effect that the late Count Tlsza, then Hungarian premier, whs opposed to the hostile tone of the A us tro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia, is said to conform to the facts. Count Stuer'kh. the Austrian premier, on the other hand, is represented as having proceeded pro-ceeded In the manner of a ruthless dictator. dic-tator. . Count Theodore Batthyanyl, minister of the Interior in the Hungarian cabinet, has resigned, fiis withdrawal from the min-istrv, min-istrv, it is stated, was the result of conflicts con-flicts with tho Socialists.