Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-06 | Page 17 | Unease Rules as Kaiser and Allies Confer

UNEASE RULES AS KAISER AND ALLIES CONFER Miunrrous Berlin Councils Hint at Weighty Problems I niler Consideration. CZERNIN OPPOSED TO RETAIM(; 15EL0U1M Austrian Minister's Speech Di?-torteil hy Teutons, 1 .ater Reports Show . London. Kb. S. Accordinn to a wireless wire-less press dispatch from Home, a series 01 conferences lock place at Hnliu yesterday. yes-terday. The G er ma n emperor :i 11 d crawn prince received separately Vasetl Radosiavof f the Hularian picm ier ; Count Oxer n in. the Aut ro-HuiiKiinaii foreign minister, and Talaat Pasha, tlie Turkish rand i-ier. That knotty questions were to be solved was a!o indicated in-dicated by the fc.ct th.n after the conference con-ference the emperor presided over a crow n council. Various confereiu es cont 1 nued t h rou shout the da The Austrian food coitt roller. It err Hoefer, lias arri ed at ierlin to make urgent representations to Germany regard re-gard i n the n e . e s s i t of h e 1 p 1 n s Austria Aus-tria in her food difficulties. Hub Distort Oceroia peei-h. The most important; pHSae m tlie speech which Oount C'-erni n. 1 lie Am tro-Hunpanan foreign minister, deli v -erei before the reichsrath on Jan. J 1. which is now cans inn a storm of anti-Austrian anti-Austrian agitation in Germtinv and Bulgaria, w a s cleverly d -s t o r t d so as to change completely its ni-aning in the version which the German Wolff bureau permitted to eo to Fng:arnl and ! America. j Referring to President Wilson's pro-I pro-I posals the Aust ro-H ung arian f ot e 1 c n minister was quoted as saying: ! "Insofar as these propositions concern con-cern her allies, whether in tlie case of Germany'? possession of Belgium or in the case of Turkey Austria - H unwary, faithful to her er.y acement to f;ht to the end in defense of her allies, will defend de-fend the possessions of her allies us she would her own. That is the standpoint of our allies, in regard to wnkh tiu-r--is perfect reciprocity." Correct Text of Thrar. j The correct text of this sec;on of ; Count Czernin's speech as printed tn 1 h .Vienna newspapers, follows; 1 "'So far as these propositions 1 oncern I her allies, whether in the case of tier- j j man possessions. Beleium. or Turkey j i Austria-Hungary, faithful to tier en- I igagements wili go to the extreme in defense of her aiiies. .""he will defend tlie pre-war pose .-stons of Ijer allies as 1 i .-he would her own." . Bv" removing' the comma between "German possessions" and "Belgium," j and by dropping the important ad.iec-' ad.iec-' tive "pre-war." 1 'ouin Gzernin was made to say tliat he would defend Germany's Ger-many's possession of Belgium. This is : t; e very tr.ing he einphatii ally disclaimed. dis-claimed. He definitely dissociated Bei-! Bei-! tiuui from German po.-sessions and oe-! oe-! c 1 re d that Austria would defend o n 1 y I the pre-war possessions of her allies, j It is th. is declaration, obviously on-, on-, 1 oed to the German militarist pro-I pro-I gram and to Bulgaria? avowed war I aims irocrsm. winch is ca usi 11 s sucn j a s;ir in F-erlin and Sofia.