THE GERMAN PEACE OFFENSIVE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 303, 11 September 1918, Page 5

THE GERMAN PEACE OFFENSIVE

WJIAT HAPPENED LAST SPRING I t ■ --I (Rec. September 10j 9.35 p.m.) Gopenhagon, September 10. The German journal "Vorw'aerts" discloses tlio fact that in the spring of <■ .1918 the Germans in Switzerland attempted to mange negotiations between the German and British members of Parliament. Representatives of . tile Conservative, Liberal, and Labour parties were to meet delegates Ifrom tho German Centre Party, the German Liberals, and the Majority Socialists, tho Germans being by Ehreubach, Hiissman, and Ebeii. Tho •Germans proposed to make-.tho Reichs- ■ tag pence resolution and fourteen paragraphs of President Wilson's manifesto the basis of negotiation's;-""but this scheme suddenly came, to nothing through Mr. Lloyd George's personal intervention.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AN AUSTRIAN MOVE (Rec. September 10, 9.35 p.m.) London, September 10. The "Daily Tolograph's" Milan correspondent, states that Herr'Hussarek, the Austrian Premier, ata receht'ebhferenco with the Governor of the Tyrol, assured him. that Austria-Hungary would soon be able to conclude an lionourable peace. The Governor invited details, and Herr Hussarek Cryptically replied, that he could not say more than that great events would soon happen which would end tho war. The correspondent adds: "This is probably nothing more than a move in the peace offensive, designed to delude the peoplo of Austria-Hungary and throw dust in tho' * byes of tho Entente."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable ' . Assn. . 1