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Show POPE ill ISSUE I NEW PEACE OFFER Defeat of Offensive to Result Re-sult in Move, Is Recent Prediction. THE HAGUE. May 1. (British Admiralty, Ad-miralty, per Wireless Press.) Pope Benedict Bene-dict Intends to Issue a new peace offer on Whitsunday (May 19), Cologne newspapers news-papers announce. The document, it Is said, will be of a more pressing nature than formerly, and will contain concrete offers of mediation by the pope, with the possible co-operation of neutral sovereigns. sov-ereigns. Similar Information of the pope's Intention, In-tention, It is said, has reached Berlin, where it has been received sympathetically. sympatheti-cally. This is not the first report emanating from Germany recently that the pope Is about to make another peace move. The Neueste Nachrichten of Munich, Bavaria, according to a London dispatch of April 23, said that the pope would make a peace offer as soon as the western offensive offen-sive had assumed a new phase. A dispatch from Stockholm, Tuesday, reported that a message from Basel announced an-nounced that Emperor Charles of Austria was making a new peace offer, appealing to Italy to consider It In her own Interests. Inter-ests. That a "peace offer" would be made by the central powers In the event that the German offensive on the west appeared ap-peared abortive has been predicted frequently fre-quently in allied capitals. This may be the beginning. WASHINGTON, May 1. Wireless dispatches dis-patches dated The Hague and quoting Cologne newspapers as saying Pope Benedict Ben-edict Intends to Issue a new peace offer a May 19 were accepted in official circles cir-cles here today as another bit of German propaganda. Heretofore the state department de-partment has been able to gather an Intimation In-timation of the purpose of the pontiff to initiate peace proposals, but not a suggestion sugges-tion of such an intention has come from any source recently. The statement in the dlsatch that the news of the pope's purpose had reached Berlin, "where it has been received sympathetically," sym-pathetically," was taken here to Indicate that German influence is being brought to bear on the pontifC to Intervene. Assuming As-suming such to be the case, officials feel that there might be some grounds for believing that the Germans now recognise recog-nise that their efforts to attain a military mili-tary decision In the west this summer are doomed to failure. |