Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1917 — VIENNA HOPES FOR NO BREAK [ARTICLE]

VIENNA HOPES FOR NO BREAK

Austrian Officials and Ambassador Penfield Take Optomistic View. Vienna, February 18, via London, February 19. —Despite the fact that some of the newspapers are taking a gloomy view of AustroAmerican relations and the situation brought about by the severing of relations between the United States and Germany, official circles in Vienna are inclined to believe that the situation is not entirely hopeless. This also is the view of Frederic C. Penfield, the American ambassador, who is doing everything possible in reaching a friendly solution of the situation. At this moment there are two indications, though possibly they are of little weight, which permit | of the conclusion that Washington

is not contemplating an immediate break with Austria-Hungary. One is the transfer to the embassy, here of Joseph C. Grew, former secretary of the 4n Berlin, who arrived here today rrom Switzer-1 land to assume the duties of ( counsellor of the embassy* a post which is vacant at present owing to the illness Of Ulysses Grant Smith, who now is in the United States. The second indication arises from the fact that Secretary of State Lansing yesterday wired here on behalf of various Hebrew charity organizations the sum of |250,- ( 000, the amount having been donated by American Hebrew socl-■ eties.