AUSTRIA ASKS FOR SEPARATE PEACE.

ALL CONDITIONS ACCEPTED.

Austria has taken the decisive step of cutting adrift from Germany in her hasty efforts to obtain an armistice and peace. “Without awaiting the result of other negotiations,” to quote the text of her Note to President Wilson, she has accepted all his conditions, and begs him to make overtures to the Allied States forthwith. Below are the terms of the Note: BASLE, Monday. The Vienna Correspondence Bureau announces that Count Andrassy, the new Austro-hungarian Foreign Minister, yesterday instructed the Austro-hungarian Minister at Stockholm to request the Royal Swedish Government to transmit to the Government of the United States the following reply to its Note of Oct. 18: In reply to the Note which President Wilson on Oct 18 addressed to the Austro-hungarian Government, and in the sense of the decision of the President to deal in particular with Austria-hungary in regard to the question of an armistice and peace, the Austro-hungarian Government has the honour to declare that, as in the case of the preceding statements of the President, it also adheres to his point of view, as laid down in his last Note, regarding the rights of the peoples of Austria-hungary, particularly those of the Czecho-slovaks and the Jugo-slavs. The Austro-hungarian Government declares itself in consequence prepared, without awaiting the result of other negotiations, to enter into regarding peace between Austria-hungary and the States of the opposing party and regarding an immediate armistice on all the fronts of Austria-hungary. It begs President Wilson to be good enough to make overtures on this subject. – Reuter. The Foreign Office has received the text of the reply of the Austro-hungarian Government to President Wilson’s Note of the 18th inst., but is not yet in a position to make any comments upon it.