ALLEGED PROPOSALS BY CENTRAL POWERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 24 May 1917, Page 5

ALLEGED PROPOSALS BY CENTRAL POWERS.

REJECTED BY THE ALLIES

NEW YORK, May 23. The New York Sun's Rome correspondent states that peace proposals have been made secretly by the Central Powers through neutral diplomats in Switzerland. The .representatives pointed out that peace would prevent resort to such desperate measures as the devastation of occupied territories, the death of prisoners, the death and starvation of non-combatants, whom it was impossible to feed. The Allies unconditionally rejected the proposals, stating that peace was impossible unless it was sought publicly on ac««ft*able terms. - The New York Sun's London cor- ' respondent questioned a high British authority, who did not admit the accuracy of the story, but said such a move was likely to be made at any '. time.