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Show AUSTRIAN RULER ISSUESA PAPER Believes Peace Is Coming and Promises Changes in Government Gov-ernment to His People. s VIENNA, Oct. 18. Via Basel, Switzerland Swit-zerland The Austrian emperor has Issued Is-sued the following manifesto: "To my faithful Austrian peoples: "Since I have ascended the throne I tried to make It my duty to assure to all my peoples the peace so ardently desired and to point the way to the Austrian peoples of a prosperous development de-velopment unhampered by obstacles which brutal forces create aaginst intellectual in-tellectual and economic prosperity. "The terrible struggles in tho world war have thus far made the work of peace impossible. The heavy sacrifice sacri-fice of the war should assure to us an honorable peace on the threshold of which, by the help of God, we are today. to-day. "We must, therefore, undertako without delay the reorganization of our country on a natural and, therefore, there-fore, solid basis. Such a question demands de-mands that tho desires of the Austrian Aus-trian peoples be harmonized and realized. rea-lized. "I am decided to accomplish this work with the free collaboration of my peoples in the spirit and principles which our allied monarchs have adopted adopt-ed in their offer of peace. "Austria must become, in conformity conform-ity with tho will of its people, a confederate con-federate state in which each' nationality national-ity shall form on the territory which it occupies under local autonomy. "This does not mean that we aro already envisaging the union of the Polish territories of Austria with tho independent Polish state. "The city of Trieste with all its surroundings sur-roundings shall, in conformity with the desire of its population, be treated separately." no |