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Show SEPARATE PEACE - nVFRTIIHFSl IMF Austro-Germans Said to Have Begun Communications With Russians at End of March. London, Aug. 13.-5:15 p. m. German Ger-man overtures for a separate peace with Russia were 'beginning at the end of March, according to the Star, which quotes telegrams it says were taken from an Italian Green Book said to have been published today. The first intimation of such peace proposals, according to the Starts article, ar-ticle, was contained in a telegram from the Italian ambassador at Petro-grad. Petro-grad. to the Italian foreign office, dated dat-ed March 29, in which the ambassador said he learned from an unimpeachable unimpeach-able source that a serious attempt to make peace had been addressed to the Russian government. Twelve days later, the Star says, the Italian minister at Nish informs his government that a separate peace between Austria and Russia was possible. pos-sible. The minister said, the Star continues, that the series of communications, communi-cations, from which it quotes, ends with a telegram from Italian ambassador ambassa-dor at Berlin dated April 15, in which the ambassador is quoted as saying Rumors for a separate peace are peisistcntly maintained and are constantly con-stantly gaining ground " |