GERMAN PEACE PROPOSALS
BRITAIN EXPREBBED HER WILLINGNESS TO RECEIVE COMMUNICATION (Reuter's Telegrams.}' Received December 12, 7 p.m. LONDON, December 12. In the House of Commons Mr A. J. Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, stated that in September last the Government had received from Germany a communication sent through a neutral diplomatic channel that Germany would be glad to make a communication to the British Government regarding peace. The Government replied that they were prepared to receive any communication Germany desired to make to them and discuss it with the Allies. The Government informed France, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States of the German suggestion and their reply. No answer had been returned by Germany and no other official communication received.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13659, 13 December 1917, Page 5
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