PROPOSED SEPARATE PEACE
STATEMENT BY MR BONAR LAW. NOT AN UNTHINKABLE PROPOSITION. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association LONDON, May 14. (Received May 15,' at 9.20 p.m.) Mr J. Annan liryce, in the House of Commons, asked for a Government statement regarding rumours of a separate peace with Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey. He suggested that a separate peace might even suit Germany. Mr Bonar Law replied that it was a natural view that our enemies were all i n i * ® se l ,ara te peace was unthmkablo; but it depended upon circumstances. The Germans were apparentlv striving contiguously to detach some of our allies, and he suggested, that no blow would be so fatal' to Germany as the detachment of one of her. allies.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17005, 16 May 1917, Page 5
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