WILLIAM THE "PEACEMAKER"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 72, 18 December 1917, Page 5

WILLIAM THE "PEACEMAKER"

PROMISES A FINAL OFFER

A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

Borno, Dc'comber 16. ) A Berlin telegram states that the \ Kniser, in a Cl/rir,tmas message to the ' German people, declares that lie will inake a final offer of peace. Its rejec- ' tion will impose upon thoir enemies all tho responsibility for bloodshed in 1918.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.. . ;

TIRPITZ VOICES_A_LARGE ORDER (ITec. December 17, 7.55 p.m.) Amsterdam, December 16. Admiral von Tirpite, speaking in Berlin, repudiated tho idea of n conciliatory peaco. Referring to tho construction of a Channel tunnel, Lo said it would he necessary for Germany to retain Flanders, Antwerp, Ostend, ana Zeebrugge, and also take Calais and Boulogne. Germany would not part with Flanders. Sho must also retain Brioy and Longwy, as essential to her trade. "Wo know," ho said, "how to impose such conditions upon our enemies as will guarantee to Germany all the raw materials ehe now lacks"— Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

PRESS THREATS TO SERBIA AND RUMANIA. Berne, December 16. The "Nieuo Freie Presse" and the "Reichspost". state that the Central Empires will impose such peace conditions that hoth Serbia and lluiuania henceforward will bo economically dependent on Austria and Germany.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A GERMAN FABRICATION EXPOSED London, December 16. Lord ltobcrt Cecil (Under-Sccretary for Foreign Affairs) states that what' purports to be the German ieply to Mr. Balfour's statement in Parliament regarding tho German peaco overture in Septcmbor is quito entrue. Following the lead of President Wilson, Britain has been continually endeavoured to discover what aro Germany's war aims, and has repeatedly endeavoured to get tin's information by means of Ministerial speeches, but upt;ll now has been unsuccessful. It is, however, utterly untrue to suggest that any private inquiries have been addressed to tho enemy with tho knowledge of tho British Government.—Router.