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Show BERLIN REJECTS . ,:ediatio:i FLflii BERLIN, Nov. 14 UrV-Forelgn Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop today Informed the Belgian and Netherlands envoy that Germany's Ger-many's reply to the Joint mediation media-tion offer from the lowland nations na-tions would b a polite "No." The formal reply to' the ' offer made November 7 by th queen ' of th Netherlands and the king of Belgian will be sent tonight U The Hague and Brussels with instructions in-structions to German envoy that it be presented tomorrow. Informed sources said. Th not was said to be only a pag and a half In length and was drafted by Von Ribbentrop, who Informed the two small nation of it content today. Von Ribbentrop was said to have its Led that Germany' reply was based on aniwtrs already received by the two sovereigns from Britain and France, which he said rendered ren-dered peace Impossible at thla time. Meanwhile, a German high com mand communique asserted nasi bombing plane (hot down two flying boat and scored a "probable hit on an English cruiser" In a raid on the Shetland Island yesterday. ' Surveying recent activity on the western front, th official German new agency, DNB, eald all encounter en-counter between German and French force had been concerned with possession of certain heights,' particularly around Plrmasens, about midway between Saar-bruecksn Saar-bruecksn and the Rhine. |