GERMAN DIPLOMAT'S STATEMENT.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13737, 27 March 1915, Page 5

GERMAN DIPLOMAT'S STATEMENT.

ENGLAND AND THE ENEMY.

SEPARATE PEACE OFFERED TO

FRANCE AND RUSSIA

(Received March 26, 9.55 p.m.)

Paris, March 26

Herr yon Richthofen, a German diplomatist, conversing with a neutral journalist in.January stated: "We are fighting against England. We offered Prance and Russia peace on the basis of the cession of German Flanders to Germany and the return of 10 3 000 Alsatian French to the French, we keeping Mete.. We offered Russia the status quo ante bellum in Russia. France was wrong to refuse, and we must now impose our will by force. It will be necessary for Germany to attack Servia in order to seize the Sofia-Constanti-nople railway, and enable Germany to establish communication with Turkey. Germany promised Italy to obtain advantages for her without fighting."