Vienna, Apr. 4.
A umber of papers in Prague and Paris having published stories that are secret clauses to the Austro-German customs agreement or alternatively that besides. the economic pact a political agreement had al ved at, it is auclared here that there is absolutely no foundation whatever for such rumours, The press furthermore points out that' behind the enormous uproar that arose in certain quarters and especially in Pavix when the customs agreement wax published, was at east in part the desire to divert Public attention from the difficulties that had arisen with regard to the rather too much advertised naval agreement which the public had Deen led to regard as an already accomplished fact whereas some important details on which the experts could be trusted to disagree had been left untouched, thereby undoing much of the good work do
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