WWI: Peace Negotiations

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 1916 (UP) - If Germany's peace proposals are such that she merely wishes the United States to act as courier in transmitting them, this government will pass the proposals along without any comment of her own.

NEW YORK, Dec. 12, 1916 (UP) - Germany's proposals for peace are made at a time when her armies have taken the offensive in the newest battle area and when the western front has reached another deadlock.

BERLIN, via Sayville Wireless, Dec. 12, 1916 (UP) -- Proposals by the central powers that peace negotiations be entered into forthwith were made in notes handed to representatives of neutral countries which are representing Germany in belligerent nations today.

BERLIN, via Sayville wireless, Dec. 12, 1916 (UP) -- Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's statement to the reichstag as issued by the press bureau is as follows:

LONDON, Dec. 13, 1916 (UP) -- The British people have already answered Germany's offer of peace-"No, not on such a basis as proposed."

BERLIN, Dec. 20, 1916 (UP) - Germany regards speeches of statesmen in England, France and Russia as a bluff to impress Berlin with the entente's determination. Germany believes the entente governments cannot do otherwise in view of their past statements -- altho they are really anxious now for peace.

LONDON, Dec. 20, 1916 (UP) - The allies have not slammed the door on peace; they have simply said to Germany:

NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 1917 (UP) -- Telegraph operators and other employees of the E.F. Hutton & Co., stock brokers, were to be grilled today by the congressional committee which is probing the leak on President Wilson's peace note.

General Townshend, commander of the British Mesopotamian forces, was the messenger who bore the Turkish request for an armistice to the allies.

The reported decision of the Germany kaiser and the crown prince to relinquish the Hobenzollern throne was viewed before by officials today as the final collapse of militarism in Germany.

Peace became effective at 4:11 p.m. today when allied and German representatives exchanged ratifications of the treaty of Versailles.