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Show OTHER EVENTS GO TO SHOW GERMANS HAVE PEACE PLAN c By International News Service. NEW YORK, Jan. 22. Three other events today Lend to make plausible the report that Germany may voluntarily evacuate Belgium: First The Frankfuerter Zeitung. often inspired by the government, published an Important editorial discussing the possibility possi-bility of a separate peace between Germany Ger-many and Belgium and urging it. "Belgium," the article said, "'has until now been considered by the German chancellor as an object of exchange, and sensible Belgians ought to be told not to wait too long when an opportunity of honorable peace is accorded her. If she refused It she might In the end be considered con-sidered as a good prise of war." Second All but one of the Socialist members of the Prussian diet have subscribed sub-scribed to a declaration calling upon the German government to restore to Bel-glum Bel-glum her independence. The decision was read in the diet in the course of debate by Hen- Hirsch, spokesman for the Social Democratic party. Third Charles L. Bernheimer of New York,! chairman of the arbitration committee com-mittee of the chamber of commerce and a prominent merchant, has received an important message from.1-. Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, until recently the unofficial spokesman for Germany in the United States. Bernheimer had cabled td Dr. Dernburg congratulating him on the report. re-port. If true, that Dr. Dernburg was opposing op-posing Germany's "annexation of politically polit-ically autonomous peoples," Dr. Dernburg replied as follows: I thank you very much for your friendly message. It is true that I have expressed myself in the sphso Indicated by you, and in . taking such a position f am in the company of a large number of representative and influential men. When the time shall arrive for peace I hope, and 1 believe, that our views will be the ones to prevail. DERNBURG. |