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Show TOLERABLE PEACE URGED BYAUSTRIAN KAISER WARNED THAT RUSSIAN ADVANCE ON BUDAPEST MEANS COLLAPSE OF HUNGARY. Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Advises Emperor Not to Reject Thought of Peace on Grounds of Probable Disarmament. London. The Copenhagen correspondent corres-pondent of the Daily Mail asserts that Baron Burian, the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, at his recent meeting meet-ing with the German emperor, drew a doleful picture of the plight of the dual monarchy and urged that the time had arrived for the Germanic powers to consider most seriously the possibilities for a tolerable peace. The dispatch says: From a trustworthy trust-worthy and Well-informed source in Berlin I received the following state, ment regarding the negotiations between be-tween the German statesmen and Bar, on Burian, who recently visited the German chancellor in Berlin and Em. perc William at the army headquarter headquar-ter in France. Baron Burian, whose, sole object it is to save what can be saved of the dual monarchy, represented to the permans that the situation in Austria was most precarious and that if the Russian advance on Budapest is not ,'stoped the effect may very probably ;be the downfall of Austria and the complete collapse of Hungary, which, must later entail, as a logical se quence also the downfall of Germany. Therefore Baron Burian urged thai ;the Russians must, at all costs, be jepulsed and that Germany must send large reinforcements to Hungary to prevent a catastrophe. In any case, he said, it was doubtful if it would be ipossible for them to resist the Russians Rus-sians and Serbians and perhaps also ;the Roumanians. Therefore it was jnecessary seriously to examine into !the question of peace. A definite defeat would mean a debacle de-bacle for Austria-Hungary and the par. tition of the empire. His advice to Germany was to consider most seriously seri-ously the possibilities of a tolerable peace. He advised Germany not to reject re-ject fundamentally the thought of peace on the grounds of a probable disarmament of Europe. If Germany was disposed to treat on such terms he believed the other conditions would be tolerable. Perhaps it would be necessary to leave the French part of Alsace to France and give up some Polish provinces to a new Poland, but if Russia would relinquish a province and Austria a part of Galicia to Poland Po-land no real sacrifice for Germany would be entailed. Austria would then leave the rest of Galicia to Russia and Bukowina to Roumania and, if necessary, a part of Bosina and Herzegovina to Serbia and Montenegro. |