GERMAN PEACE TALK.
MR ASQUITH REFUSES TO RESPOND.
(Received Thursd. y, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday.
In the House of Commons, Sir A. B. Markham asked, in view of Herr yon Betlmiann-HoUweg's declaration that Germany was ready to make peace, and his blaming of the Allies for withholding peace, whether the Allies would inform Germany, through a neutral country, the definite terms whereon they are willing to make peace, provided Germany would act similarly. Mr Asquith said that there was nothing in Herr yon Be.h_ia__.-Hon-Aveg's statement that indicated that Germany was prepared to consider terms safeguarding the interests of the Allies and the future peace of Europe. He had nothing to add to Sir Edward Grey's recent speech in the House of Commons on the same subject.
Sir A. B. Markham asked what end woidd be gained by not informing Germany what our actual terms of peace would be. Mr Asquith: "The question is debateable, and cannot usefully add to what I've already said."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXX, Issue 14579, 1 June 1916, Page 5
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