LONDON OPINION.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14868, 17 September 1918, Page 5

LONDON OPINION.

GERMANY BEHESTTTHE MOVE

ATTEMPT TO JOCKEY THE ALLIES

GERMAN OVERTURES TO

BELGIUM

(Australian* and N.Z. Cable Association}

(Received Sept. 16, 8 p.m.)

London, Sept. 15

There is little doubt that Germany 53 behind the Austrian peace movement. It is doubtless the first of many a.U. tempts to jockey the Allies into an Tinfavourable position, and bolster up tho German people with the idea that tho Allies rejected their peace offers. • A diplomatic authority points out' , that the onomy know perfectly well 'what our minimum terms are. The "Daily Express" says that Germany approached Belgium, proposing ; that s^o should rpnairt neutral until :thc end of the war and use her gcodl

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