IF THE ENEMY ASKS FOR PEACE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2640, 10 December 1915, Page 5

IF THE ENEMY ASKS FOR PEACE

STATEMENT BY MR. ASQUSIT By Telegraph-Press AesooiatloH-OoffirrtgM • (Rec. December 9, 6.80 p.m.) London, December 8. Replying in the House to a question by Mr. Philip Snowden (Labour), Mi\ Asquith (the Prime Minister) said thai the Entente Powers had-mutually agreed not to conclude a separate peaco. . "If," ho added, "serious proposals for a general peace are submitted by the enemy, either through a neutral, or direct, they will first be discussed by the Allied Governments. It will be th( deshre of tli4 Government to take Parliament into its confidence at the earliest possible moment."

ONE OF NAMUR FORTS BLOWN UP

EIGHTY GERMANS KILLED. . ' By Telegraph—Press Aspociation—Copyright Amsterdam, December 8. •An explosion destroyed the Cognelee Fort at Namur. Eighty German soldiers are reported to have been killed. .

AMERICAN STEAMER SEIZED,

DISPUTED OWNERSHIP. ' By Telesrraph—Press Asßocis-tion-Oopyiißlif Washington, December 8. A British cruiser seized the America* steamer Wimiibago off the South Amori< can coast. Tho ownership of the Wiiuii< bago is disputed. ' '

BOTHA AND HERTZOG

A CORRECTION TO RECENT : CRITICISM. Br Telegraph—Press Association-Copy riglA London, December' B.' Roiiter's Agency forwards the following correction in General Botlia's specch in tlio Union Parliament:—General Botha said: "I am satisfied that General Hertzog in his heart disapproved of the rebellion; therefore it is all the more that General Hertzog did not uso las influence to prevent it." [General Botha was previously r««. ported as having said: "Had real civil v, ' ar broken out. tlio man responsible would have been General Hertzog, who is a rebel, at hoa'rfc."]