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Show AUSTRIA SUBMITS PEACEJWOSAL WOULD HAVE EXCHANGE OF VIEWS LOOKING TOWARD FINAL NEGOTIATIONS. Suggests That There Be No Interruption Interrup-tion of War and That Discussion Go on So Far as Considered to Offer Prospects of Success. Amsterdam. In extending an invitation invita-tion lo all the belligerent governments to enter into non-binding discussions at some neutral meeting place, the Austro-llungarian government stated that the object of the conference would be to secure an exchange of views which would show "whether those prerequisites exist which would make the speedy inauguration of peace negotiations appear promising." The Austrian proposal, which is announced an-nounced in an official communication telegraphed here from Vienna, suggests sug-gests that there be no interruption of the war, and Hint the "discussions would go only so far as considered by the participants to offer prospects of success." The proposal calls for all the belligerents bellig-erents to send delegates for a "confidential "confi-dential and unbinding discussion on the basic principles for the conclusion of peace, in a place in a neutral country coun-try and at a near date that would yet have to be agreed upon." Frank Exchange of Views Asked. The proposal says the conference would be one of "delegates who would be charged to make known to one another an-other the conception of their governments govern-ments regarding those principles and to receive analogous communications, as well as to request and give frank and candid explanations on all those points which need to be precisely defined." de-fined." The government announces that a note embodying its suggestions had been addressed to the various belligerent bellig-erent powers and that the holy see had been apprised of the proposal in a special spe-cial note. The governments of the neutral states also had been made- acquainted ac-quainted with the proposal. |