Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-01 | Page 12 | Austria's Plea to President Wilson Sent to the Allies

AUSTRIA'S PLEA TO PRESIDENT WILSON SENT TO THE ALLIES WASHINGTON. Oct. 31. Austria's renewed re-newed plea to President Wilson for an armistice and peace terms has been transmitted to the allied governments Minister Ekengren of Sweden delivered to Secretary Lansing today the note of Count Andrassy, new Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, asking the secretary to intervene with President Wilson for favorable fa-vorable action on the Austrian request for American and allied armistice terms The note was in Swedish text. A translation trans-lation shows no material difference from the version already published in press dispatches. dis-patches. Austria's renewed plea for an armistice and peace negotiations will be transmitted to the allied governments by President Wilson. Secretary Lansing announced late today to-day that there would be no formal reply to Austria's latest note, but that the Swedish minister would be told verbally that the Austrian appeal hart taken "the usual course" and had been communicated to the allied chancellories.