GERMANY AND PEACE.
(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and Cabio Association.) (Received May sth, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, May 4. * The Central Nows Agency states that it is informed on unimpeachable authority that Germany has renewed her peace offensive, utilising noutral emissaries. A Dutch financier has arrived in England, and another neutral is now en route. The former has not concealed the purpose of his mission. He interviewed a high intelligence officer, and sought to convince him that Germany would never bo expelled from France, and that the time was ripe for peace by negotiation. Tho officer told the emissary to inform Hcrr von Kuhlmann that tlio Allios intended to win tho war by a military victory, or by starving Germany of raw materials. The Contral News Agency adds that Herr vou Kuhlmann hopes to promoto a peace offensive through the modium of neutral political idealists, and international financiers. Lord Robert Cecil (Under-Secretary for Foroign Affairs), addressing American correspondents;, roferred to Germany's coming peace offensive. Ho said it would probably be in full strength in a fortnight, in order to allay disappointment at the failuro of, the German military efforts.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16204, 6 May 1918, Page 7
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