THE STATEMENT CONFIRMED

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 21 May 1917, Page 5

THE STATEMENT CONFIRMED

(United Service.)

(Received May 20, 5.5 p.m.)

London, May 19 The "Daily Mail" states that other information reveals the fact that the Kaiser and the militarists alone prevented the German Government making new peace proposals. ■

FALKENHAYN INTERVIEWED

SOLDIERS AND PEOPLE R4VING ABOUT PEACE.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

{Received May 20, 5.5 p.m.y Amsterdam, May 19. I'alkenhayn, interviewed by journalists, said that not only were people at homo raving about peace, but the soldiers at the front x* ere equally desirous or it. Peace would come only when a happy future was assured for Germany. No enemy.would ever set foot on German soil again. <