GERMANY WITHIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1917, Page 2

GERMANY WITHIN.

A DUTCH RUMOUR. I AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] WASHINGTON, Dec 20 Officials interested s ay that rufnour.s come from Holland that a movement has begun in German moderate circles with the object of dethroning the Kaiser, and choosing Prince Max Baven as his successor. It is reported that well-informed persons in Holland intimate that there is some foundation for the rumour. 1 - a KAISER’S PEACE TERMS. THE REPORTED. * (Reuter’s Telegram.; WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. What purports to be an outline of the Kaiser’s Christmas peace terms . has been received through a neutral v . diplomatic channel as follows: To leave Alsace, to a plebiscite. Britain to pay Germany for her lost African Colonies; the money to be used for the rehabilitation of Belgium, Serbia, Roumania, and Northern France. The Russian provinces bordering on the Baltic to become independent un- \ der a German plan. Poland to be called an independent State under Austrian suzerainty. The qnestions of disarmament and the freedom of the seas and commerce | to bo left to tho Peace Conference. Roumania, Serbia, and Montenegro to retain their original boundaries, with right of access to the sea to he granted to Serbia. Turkey to remain intact.