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Show BLUFF WILL NOT FILL jTOMAFJS Daily Mail Calls Czernin's Speech an Attempt to Appear Brave. HUNGRY MUST BE FED Central Powers Hoping to Detach De-tach Union States From the Allies. LONDON, April 4 Count Czernin. in spite of the marked change toward the bellicose in his latest speech, still speaks in softer accents that even have been heard from Berlin the morning newspapers say in their comment com-ment on the Austro Hungarian lor-eign lor-eign minister's address to the Vienna municipal council The Daily Mail characterize-; the speech as "Austrian bluff" and says that Count Czernin's assertion that the blockade of Germany is broken in the east will not fill the hungry stomachs stom-achs of Germans and Austrians. It irlrlc f Via i t Vt laoiiA m no hn t rr A rA bv iron and blood in the battle that is now beint; pitched The Dally Telegraph Tele-graph thinks that coming at the moment mo-ment it does, the speech will command com-mand but a small share of the attention atten-tion which it would have received, three weeks ago. It says that somei of Count Czernin's statements and professions require and will doubtless soon receive notice from entente statesmen and the United States. Customary Talk After Defeat. The speech, the Morning Post savs, may be regarded as the customary peace offensive ensuing upon the temporary tem-porary defeat of the warm offensive of the central powers. It declares that it is addressed particularly to the president of the United States and m cms designed to impress President Wilson with the idea that the recent attack was forced upon the central powers by the refusal of the allies to discuss terms of peace. The Post concludes: "Count Czernin apparently is making mak-ing another attempt to detach the' United States from the allies, possible possi-ble with a view of saving Bulgaria and Turkey from a declaration of war by j America. Judging by reports received of the Austrian minister's overtures wo cannot but regard them as rather clumsily conceived." Thr Austrian foreign minister, says the Daily News, discriminated be-i be-i ween the pacilic character of his own imperial master and of another im- I perial master ' and in so doing has touched the real root of this devas : tatlng struggle." The paper urges Count Czernin to preach his gospel in favor of a new! world organization based on dlsarma-j ment in Berlin It adds that, before! ihe world which President Wilson en-I isages can be inaugurated there must be a chance of heart in Berlin. |