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Show GZERMIN HIS HE SECT BOTE T01LS0! Austro - Hungarian Foreign For-eign Minister Makes Sensational Announcement Announce-ment That President Had Text of Speech Before It Was Actually Delivered. STEP TOWARD PEACE, BELIEF Socialist Paper Vor-waerts Vor-waerts Declares Action Was Blessed by the German Government in Advance, and Then Gives Outline of Its Own Programme. Count Czernin, the A u s tro-Hu ngaxi an foreign minister, it is reported from Vienna on good authority, has annoariceil to the Austrian delegations that the text of his speech on the Austrian war aims was forwarded to President Wilson before be-fore its delivery. This has caused a gret sensation, according to the Cologne Gazette, which interprets it to mean that actual steps had already been taken to bring about an exchange of views between be-tween the western powers and Russia and Germany. I Pan-German papers express the opinion that Count Czernin's peace imntation to President WUson is indicatiTe of a break in the Austro -German alliance. |