GERMAN PLOT TO GAIN BREATHING SPACE.
-WANT TIME TO REORGANISE TO BEGIN EIGHT AGAIN. (Received 12.30 p.m.) \ LONDON, October 13. Lord Denbigh, in a speech in London, said that the Crown Prince's army being in difficulties at I.aon, the Germans asked for an armistice to enable them to get beyond the frontier and bring up arms and reorganise. They would then say that they had misunderstood the fourteen points, nnd when they were rested we would have tho whole job to do over again. It is stated in other quarters that though the language of the German reply suggests that the democratisation of the Government is complete, authoritative quarters regard Dr. Solf's professions to speak in the name of the German ]ieople with suspicion. They point out that it is unlikely that the Kaiser, the Court aud the militarists have given up power without a struggle. Probably they hope to deceive America by keeping in the background. A free Reichstag, elected by universal suffrage, with power to appoint its own Ministers, would alone be able to speak in the name of the German people.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 245, 14 October 1918, Page 5
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