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Show AUSTRIA HIKES BID FDR PEACE Invitations to Congress at The Hague Sent Through Holland. By Universal Service. LONDON, Oct. 4. Austria-Hungary, with the aid of Holland, has taken steps to Invite all belligerents to an immediate peace conference at The Hague, the Amsterdam Am-sterdam correspondent of the Daily Express Ex-press learns. Simultaneously, the Austro-Hungarian government has opened a new peace offensive. of-fensive. Herr Hammasch, who is said to be slated to succeed Baron von Hussarek as Austrian premier, is writing a memorandum memo-randum setting forth Austria-Hungary's conception of President Wilson'B fourteen peace principles. The memorandum is to be sent to the American executive, -the correspondent learns. In- Germany, the Socialist pressure on the government to initiate a peace move at once continues. Vonvaerts, the official offi-cial German Socialist organ, urges the party to enter the new cabinet hoaded by Prince Max: of Baden, because, tho paper says, the new chancellor "intends to move for Immediate universal peace." Vorwaerts asserts that the peace sought ! by tho prince is to be based, upon the.se four main principles: 1. A league of nations. 2. Arbitration. Disarmament. !. No German annexat ion, not even in the cael. j By Universal Service. "WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. State department, depart-ment, officials tonight lacked official confirmation con-firmation of the reported Austrian peace hid a new proposal sent to all belligerents bellig-erents through Holland. The Netherlands Nether-lands legation was also without information informa-tion regarding the move. j If Austria, however, has decided to "try 1 I il. again," the reception to be accorded her In test ma nl fsio will be along t he same line as was the last, when President Presi-dent Wilson dispatched a sixty-eight - (Continued on Page Four.) AUSTRIA IKES . BID FOR PEACE (Continued from Page One.) word reply and ended the matter. The assumption on the part of officials is taken on the basis that Austria's "plea" contains as much sincerity as its predecessor. prede-cessor. If the dual monarchy, though, expresses a willingness to see the light as Bulgaria did and make unconditional surrender, the allies will talk business. The same reasons that actuated Austria's Aus-tria's former move for peace, officials say, would be behind any new bid. And these are internal conditions, together with the ever-increasing menace of allied armies approaUiing Austro-Hungarian territory. In addition, it Is pointed out, the Bulgarian debacle, which has had a tremendous effect on public opinion in Austria, may be a prime mover for further fur-ther peace feelers or offers. The entire Baikan situation, upon which the eyes of the world have centered since the Bulgarian collapse, haa been the most engrossing of all lately to officials of the state department and allied diplomats here, because of the possibilities it holds. Chief of all these possibilities is found in Austria and her thoughts of the future. fu-ture. It is now generally conceded that the first Austrian peace bta was made primarily as -an attempt to satisfy the people in the dual monarchy, and also to forestall, if possible, the Bulgarian surrender. Austrian statesmen, Jt is admitted, ad-mitted, must have known that Bulgaria was near a collapse at the time the suggestion sug-gestion for a "nonbindlng discussion" was made. At the Netherlands legation tonight, Jonkheer A. W. Tjarda Van Starken-borgh-Stachouwer, the secretary, declared that no word had been received from Holland pertaining to the new move. The legation, lie added, would natu rally be advised at the first opportunity, inasmuch inas-much as the present charge d'affaires would present the Austrian note to the state department. Mr. Van Starkenborgh-Stachouwer said the report might refer to the initial Austrian Aus-trian note, which asked Holland that the peace palace at The Hague be used as the edifice for the consideration of ncgo-t ncgo-t ia tirns. Secretary Landing has not intimated lately that a new peace proposal was expected from Austria, but it Is a matter of common know led ce around the state department that conditions in Austria are poor that anything might be expected from the government. By Associated Press. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 4. A delegation of Hungarian statesmen, header hy Premier Wekrle, hHs arrived at Vienna In connection con-nection with a new ppR'' move, according accord-ing to the Cologne Gazette. Regarding the nei-,oriHtiona at VI inn a. Premier Wekerie said to the representative representa-tive of a Hungarian newnpaper: "This much. 1 an tell you we are HgHin laboring untiring1 In the Interests of peace and we are already negotiating.'' . |