GERMANY AND PEACE
THE KAISER AND MILITARISTS BLOCK NEW PROPOSALS. AUSTRO-GERMAN LEADERS WILLING TO FOREGO ANNEXATIONS. SOLDIERS AT THE FRONT DESIROUS OF PEACE. CANNOT COME TILL HAPPY FUTURE IS ASSURED. NO ENEMY WILL SET FOOT ON GERMAN SOIL. (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received May 20, 5.5 p.m. THE HAGUE, May 19. The Tages Zeitung states that Count Reventlow declares that before Easter Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg and Count Czcrnin outlined a new peace offer which was submitted to the Kaiser for signature. The Kaiser snubbed them. Count Reventlow adds that Hollweg and Czernin have completed an agreement for peace without annexations. (United Service.) LONDON, May 19. The Daily Mail states that other information reveals that the Kaiser and the militarists alone prevented the German Government making new peace proposals. AMSTERDAM, May 19. General von Falkenhayn, interviewed by' neutral journalists, said that not only were the people at home raving about peace, the soldiers at the front were equally desirous, but peace would come only when a happy future was assured to Germany. No enemy would ever set foot on German soil again.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13489, 21 May 1917, Page 5
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