PEACE TALK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 67, 19 July 1915, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

BEATEN AND BANKRUPT,

GERMANY’S FINANCIAL POSITION. United Peeks Association. New York.. July IS. The Wall Street Journal «ays it is possible that the war will he over by October. Germany was beaten in the first rush, when she failed to capture Paris. She now is not merely beaten, but bankrupt. All her gold is concentrated in the Reichsbank, where it has the merest' ‘[iariidtV'iif u valhe / .While' tli'J paper mark in another six months will rank as little above shinplaster a s far as the world’s trade is concerned.

GERMAN DESPONDENCY.

ENGLISH PAPER’S REPORT.

TENTATIVE PEACE PROPOSALS

THROUGH U.S.A

(Received 8.15 a.m.) London,* .Tub 1.8,

The Financial News gives prominence to reports from quarters closely connected with German sources of information that Germany is making tentative peace proposals through the United States owing to the despondency. IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT FIRM. PEACE TALK TURNED DOWN. London. JiJv 17. In the House of Commons, Mr Mason, M.r. for Coventry, pressed Mr Asquith to consider the advisability ol discovering the terms of peace on which Germany- was entering. Mr Asquith refused to do so. Mr Samuel Roberts (Sheffield) aske 1 whether such questions were not really detrimental to the interests of the country. d

Mr Asquith; That’s a matter of opinion. Everyone can form his own judgment. Sir A. Markham: The terms of peace will be dictated when we got to Berlin.

Mr K. L. Outliwaite (Hawley’): Isn’t it a fact that the Belgians desire to see Germany negotiated out of their country? (Cries of, “No, no! ) “Driven out. 'and France converted into a vast war mill.”