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Show 111 10 HEPtY 10 AUSTRIA'S PEACE IIOTE Holland Asked to Extend V Invitation for Gn-. Gn-. -- oral Parley. By Unltd Re. AMBTEKDAM, Oct. ft Replylns to an alleged request by Austrla-Hungary (or a pmc conference of all "belUger-UU. "belUger-UU. QreaL Britain ia reported la bm demanded that tha Austrian govern-mant govern-mant explain what la maant by a "noncommittal "non-committal conference.' Austria-Hungary' request waa mad trough. Holland, aoeordlrig to th lenna 'correspondent of tha Berlin Tageblatl ah aakd that Holland placa Th Hagu at tha dlpoeal o( th belligerent Holland promptly notified all belligerents, tha correspondent corre-spondent aaya. It la reported that Professor Dsra-maach Dsra-maach who. It la rumortil, may ue-eed ue-eed Austrian Premier Hueserek. haa prepared a m.mortntlum otatflig Austria Aus-tria conception o( President Wilson's fotaneea jiolnla which will ba aent to tha latisr. NEW PIACt DRIVE. Th Cologne Gazette say that Hungarian Hun-garian Premier Wekerle, Count Tlssa, Count Aadraaay and Count Apponyl have arrived In Vienna, In connection with th new peace effort. "We are laboring" unwearily In the interests of peace," Wekerle declared In an Interview. . "We aru already negotiating." Wekerle and the others will ba received re-ceived by Emperor Carl to discuss the situation. ( ARMIES WILL REPLY. By United Prase. J WASHINGTON. Oct. S. The allied armie will nk the reply to. Austria's Aus-tria's reported peace plaa via Holland sovernmsnt. Indication today pointed to development devel-opment of a clawlike offensive against th dual monarchy, ane claw being; the allied forces In the near eaat; the other, oth-er, the gallant Italian army. Appll- catiaj) of th claw to Austria-Hungary, It la held, would force her to make a genuine peaoe offer. Th present pres-ent reported Austrian requoat upon Holland to seek "a peac conference i I regarded hero as only another step In the known plan to develop a peace offensive throughout th fall and winter. win-ter. SINISTER PEACH DRIVE. Incidentally- some authorities here fore plainly that Onrnutny propose a nsw and particularly sinister peac offensive before long. It Indicated lines are based upon a retirement from Belgium and northern France. When this retirement baa been accepted. It 1 likely Uarmany will endeavor to appeal ap-peal to the pacifist element of her foes, partlouarly In Croat Britain among th Lansdown nd labor factions, for a peace contemplating no claim to any French or Belgian soil, rtueh an appeal ap-peal must be combated, authorities her say, Mpeolaliy It . would b based largely upon retentlorf of an enfeebled en-feebled grasp on Russia. WAR CORRESPONDENT WOUNDED BY SHELL By Assoclststf Press. WITH THE AMKRICAN ARMT NORTHWEST OP VKRDI'N, Oct. ft Joseph Jo-seph Tlmmons, correspondent for Los Anfslea, Csl.. nswspsper, whlls watching the battle from a hill In ths region of Kplnoville. was wounded In the right Cheek by a shell-fragment this afternoon. Other correspondents asslstsd Tlmmons to a field dreeelng station. Iter he went to a town back of the battle area, where his wound, which ia not serious, waa dreeeed |
