MUST COME DOWN FROM HIGH HORSE.
LONDON, January 5. Outside official circles the opinion grows that peaco is much nearer. It is the general belief that the British blockade has almost ended the capacity of the Central Powers for resistance, and that, peace will soon arrive either as the result of decisive battles in tho field or the surrender of Germany through starvation. I talked last night with a high official of' the British Government, who hag access .to the Lloyd George group, and. he told mo that, notwithstanding reports from Washington, the British Government would hold out for peace upon the lines laid ' down in its reply io Germany. This does not mean
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14221, 12 February 1917, Page 8
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