Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-19 | Page 3 | Belgium to Spurn Offer of Germany

BELGIUM TO SPURN OFFER OF GERMANY PARIS, Sept. 18. (Havas.) The Belgian Bel-gian government, after consultation with the allies, according to the Petit Parisian, has decided to refuse without elaboration the reported offer of a separate peace made by Germany. An Amsterdam dispatch Tuesdav said that dispatches received from Berlin declared de-clared that nothlnjr was known In competent com-petent circles in Berlin regarding the reported re-ported separate peace proposal to Belgium. Bel-gium. Information was received in London Sunday night to the effect that Germany had made an offer to Belgium. Trie terms Included the provisions that Belgium should remain neutral until the end of the war, that Belgium should use her good offices to secure the return of the German colonies and that pre-war commercial com-mercial treaties shall again be put into operation. The proposal contained no admission ad-mission that Germany had wronged Belgium Bel-gium nor anything concerning reoaration or indemnities.