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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 90, 19 April 1915, Page 5

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BERNST ORFF’S LIES. BRITAIN WILL NOT WASTE TIME ON DISCUSSION. (■TTnithd Prbkb Ausooiati.in 1 Washington, April 18. It is now disclosed nfficmllv that Count Bernstorff was continually eirenlating rumors that the British and French (Governments were ready to treat lor peace, but both Britain and France privately assured the United States that peace was not contemplated unless Germany was completely beaten. Count Bernstorff offered generally the maintenance of the status quo ante helium, the evacuation of Belgium, the opening of the Dardanelles to Russia, Germany to purchase the Belgian Congo, and no indemnities. Britain promptly assured White House that it would be a waste ol time even to consider the proposals. MODEST GERMANY’S AIM. “THE SEAS OPEN AT ALL TIMES.” DEMANDS CONDITIONAL ON BELGIUM’S FREEDOM. (Received 8.20 a.m.) Washington, April 18. Count Dernbnrg, in a letter read at a pro-German mass meeting in Portland, Maine, asserted that Germany never intended securing worlddominion. She was much too modest for any such thing. Germany’s aim was to keep the seas open to all nations in wartime as well as in peace. Personally, he favoured the neutralisation of all seas by an international agreement, and that all cables and mail communications should be internationalised. If these demands were complied with, Germany would agree to give up Belgium, provided the commercial relations between Belgium and Germany were placed on a just and workable basis.