GERMANY AND PEACE.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 September 1918, Page 6

GERMANY AND PEACE.

MAY HAVE TO BUY IT. HINDENBURG’S admission. talk of an armistice. AMSTERDAM, Sept 20. Von Hindenburg issued a proclamation to the army on the Austrian Peace Note, in which he says: “We are naturally ready for peace, but not such as the enemy wants. Since 1916, when the Kaiser offered peace, the German Government has lost no opportunity of showing the world that it is rcudy for pG&CGf tout tlio s-nswGr is always a mockery and spite. Thus we continued the defensive war. Our ally has now made another offer, but the fight has not stopped, and we must continue. The German army in the past four years has victoriously proved that it cannot be conquered. We shall see whether the enemy is this time ready to make peace or whether we have to buy peace on terms, thus destroying our future. The President of the Reichstag, speaking at Ravenburg, said that despite German enemies’ war howling, .it was not. impossible that an armistice would he arranged before winter. PARIS, Dept 20. Replying to the Austrian Note, M. Stephen Pichon, French Foreign Secretary, has sent the Swiss Minister a copy of M. Clemenceau’s speech, saying that it summed up France’s attitude towards the Vienna Cabinet.