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Show TEXT OF AUSTRIAN COMMUNICATION TO PRESIDENT WILSON WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. The official text of the Austrian, government's note to President Wilson renewing the plea for an armistice and peace was made public today by Secretary Lansing. It does not differ substantially from the unofficial version as transmitted by the Associated Press from Basel, Switzerland. The official text was given out in this form: "Department of State, October 30, 191?. "The secretary of state makes public the following: "Department of Austro-Hungarian Interests: In-terests: "Legation of Sweden, Washington, D. C., October 2S, 1918. "Excellency: "By order of my government, I have the honor to beg you to transmit to the president the following communication from the imperial and royal government of Austria-Hungary: "In reply to the note of the president, Mr. Wilson, to the Austro-Hungarian government, dated October IS of this year, and about the decision of the president presi-dent to take up With Austria-Hungary separately the question of armistice and peace, the Austro-Hungarian government has the honor to declare that it adheres both to the previous declarations of the president and his opinion of the rights of the peoples of Austria-Hungarv, notably nota-bly those of the Czecho-Slovaks "and the Jugo-Slavs, contained in his last note. Austria-Hungary having thereby accepted ac-cepted all the conditions which the president presi-dent had put upon entering Into negotiations nego-tiations on the subject of armistice and peace, nothing, in the opinion of the Austro-Hungarian government, longer stands in the way of beginning those negotiations. The Austro-Hungarian government gov-ernment therefore declares itself ready to enter, without waiting for the outcome Of other negotiations, into negotiations 1 for a peace between Austria-Huneary and ; the entente Btates and for an armistice , on all the fronts of Austria-Hungarv, and begs the president. Mr. Wilson, to take the necessary measures to that effect. "Be pleased to accept. Excellency, the I assurances of my high consideration. (Signed) "W. A. F. EKENGRETN, "His Excellency, Robert Landing, Secretary Sec-retary of State of the United States, Washington, D. C." |