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Show APPEAL i Austro-Hungary Seeks to Obtain a Separate Peace. ' BASEL. Switzerland. Oct, 2S. Austria-Hungary. In notifying President Wilson that It Is ready to enter upon peace negotiations and arrange an armistice, asks President Wilson In Its reply to him, to begin overtures on the subject. The Austro-Hungarian foreign minister min-ister Instructed the Austro-Hungarian minister at Stockholm yesterday to ask the Swedish government to send the following note to the Washington ; government: ) "In reply to the note of President) w nsuii ui uib xa iiy.'j oi mis monin, addressed to the Austro-Hungarlan government and giving the decision of the president to speak directly with the Austro-Hungarlan government on the question of an armistice and peace, tho Austro-Hungarlan government has the honor to declare that equally with the preceding proclamations of the president. It adheres also to the same point of view contained in the last note. (The rights of the Austro-Hungarlan peoples, especially those of tho Czecho-Slovaks and tho Jugo-Slavs.) The Austrian note Is dated October 2S at Vienna and is signed by Count Julius Andrassy, the new foreign minister. min-ister. ! BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 28. (By tho Associated Press.) The text of tho Austrian reply to President Wilson Wil-son reads: "Austria-Hungary, accepting all the conditions the president has laid down for the entry Into negotiations for an armistice and peace, no obstacle exists, according to Judgment of, the Austro-Hungarian government, to the beginning of these negotiations. "The Austro-Hungarlan government declares Itself ready, In consequence, without awaiting tho result of other negotiations, to enter Into negotiations . ' upon peace between Austria -Hungary ; and tho states In the opposing group and for an Immediate armistice upon all Austro-Hungarian fronts. "It asks President WJlson to be so kind as to bcin overtures on the subject." sub-ject." no |