THE CHRISTMAS ARMISTICE SUGGESTION.
CONDEMNED BY MR. 'ANDREW) CARNEGIE. Washington, December 11.'.-. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, , in _an inter* view, saiij it would be unchristian and 1 immoral to stop fighting for Christmas and-resume it afterwards. It was impossible to believe that any nation which'adopted a suggestion for a Christmas l truce would do so sincerely; , When the war broke out the Kaiser was ill,', and opposed hostilities, but the mili' ; . : tary caste overbore bim. GERMANY .WILLING. (Rec. | December 13, 2 p.m.) ''.'"'"." London, December 12.< A Berlin wireless message.states Germany immediately assented to thi'v Pope's reported suggestion for a, Christimas truce to hostilities. The'; decisions of .the other belligerents is not known^v ■ • "■ ' ' ■ '■■'■ ■■• 'i efforts, : fail;; : •'; : J (Reo. December 13,, i .p.m.) -0 '..■•'•' Rome, 'December' 12." The Vatican has announced tbat the, efforts to arrange a Christmas truce; have failed, owing,to. the. opposition, of a certain Power. ' " . ' ■•■■■■>- London, December'l2. . A. wireless message from Berlin stated that Russia has declined the Christmai truce. ..,,.■ .., :-.,-»,"'
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 5
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160THE CHRISTMAS ARMISTICE SUGGESTION. Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2332, 14 December 1914, Page 5
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