Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-04-11 | Page 1 | Austria in Peace Talk with U. S. Citizen

A AUSTRA I UI PEACE TALK WITH DB 8 Pt f sq J Sa Says s' s And Anderson r a and d Counts And r assy and J T PI Plan n Se Separate agate Pact ti tiBy By United Press COPENHAGEN COPENHAGEN April 11 J Professor Anderson of W Washington Wahington negotiated with vitI Counts Andrassy and in Vienna and Budapest r regarding garding the possibility of a a. a separate peace between Austria Hungary Austria a and ld the United State States according to a dispatch to the Berlin Tage- Tage blatt from its its' Vienna corre corre- t The correspondent said the Austrian foreign office had admitted admitted admitted ad ad- this together with the admission that Hungary Austria-Hungary has initiated various peace ne ne- Many of these negotiations negotiations negotiations were said to have been conducted by by Emperor Karl with numerous persons of international international international inter inter- national connection By United Press Prell WASHINGTON April 11 Report Report Reported ed peace negotiations between a Pr Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Anderson of ol Washington ashington representing the United States States and Counts Andr Andrassy s y and in Vienna and Budapest cr created astir a stir in m of official and and diplomatic quarters here today The Th professor however h wever w was s 's snot not available and his Ide Identity was y as as not established I It was stated officially at the stale t tote te department that Professor Anderson Anderson Anderson Ander Ander- son was was was' not Known n there and fur further ther that nothing was was known of tie the I Incident referred d to In the dispatch Professor P P. Chauncey Anderson connected with the war trade b board ard was the only Prof Professor Anderson I I known mown to be lie e here here and and he said he hadn't been in Europe and knew mew nothing of the reported negotiations I Chandler P. P Anderson formerly counselor of the state department has been legal adviser of the department department department depart depart- ment In inthe the last year but he has lias not been In Europe for tor two years He lie is not employed by the council of national national national na na- na- na defense t The department stated recently no official peace negotiations had been undertaken ken though ever everybody bodY coming back from Europe had peace pe ce talk of one sort or r another This was taken to indicate that some Austrian feelers had been received through sources not strictly connEcted connected connected con con- with the government tho though gh still perhaps In a position to talk a LONDON April 11 Negotiations H.-Negotiations Negotiations relating to the possibility of separate peace between Hungary Austria-Hungary and the United States were carried out In Vienna and Budapest by Professor Anderson Anderson Anderson An An- derson of Washington according to a news dispatch from Copenhagen today which gave the Berlin as its authority It was reported that Professor Professor Professor Pro Pro- fessor Anderson had conferred d with both Count Andrassy and Count two Hungarian statesmen