GERMANY TRADING ON AMERICAN INFLUENCE.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13773, 9 January 1917, Page 6

GERMANY TRADING ON AMERICAN INFLUENCE.

~—: —i . HOPES FOR SOME.SATISFACTORY DEVELOPMENT, (Australian and Sfeir Zealand Cable" Association.) . Received January S, 5,25 p.m. . , AMSTERDAM, .Jaiuiaiy,7, , , Count Czernin has arrived in Berlin and has conferred with :• the Kaiser au.d arranged conferences with tlie Chaijcelior, leading.... politicians, and bankers. : ' (Australian and Nnv Zealand Cable Received January S, 7,25 p,ru; . AMSTERDAM, January-7, <■* ■ The Nieuwe' Court h says 1 liat' P»(»rlin, after repeating the denial of Conn! Czornin, secretly furnished President Wilson . willi the Central Powers' peace terms. The paper says: The report is based on the misunderstanding that Ihe terms have not yet-been disclosed to any neutral;and in view of Hie Entente's refiisiil oE the. German invitation \ there was.no necessity to announce them. In any ease, further steps will not be taken until the Entente officially replies tc President Wilson. Everything depends on the nature of that reply, Germany has not, yet abandoned Ihe hope- that there will be some satisfactory outcome of President Wilson's de- . marehe.