BERNSTORFF EXPLAINS
ONLY "TALKING" TERMS
HOPES OF NEUTRAL INFLUENCE NEW YORK, December 13. The German Embassy retracts its yesterday's peace terms,, declaring that they must be interpreted as what Germany would like to get. not what she expects to get. Any terms now suggested are talking terms, and are less important than the necessity «fef starting a peace conference. The Embassy adds. The Central Powers are counting on neutrals taking an important part in influencing the Allies towards peace. Much hope, is placed on the coming" conference at Copenhagen between . Scandinavia and Switzerland with Spain. Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg will possibly be represented. . The Embassy's declaration is regarded as most significant and as an indication that Germany is far harder pressed for peace than Herr von Bethmann Hollweg's statements would imply. . .
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Grey River Argus, 15 December 1916, Page 3
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