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Show UNITED STATES READY JL. To Tender Good Offices to Warring :y Nations In Effort to Bring About Peace London, Sept. 3. In high official circles here It Is learned authoritatively authorita-tively that recent rumors of peace havo no foundation In any step tnk-tin tnk-tin by tho British government or In any statement Issued hero from auth-erltatlvo auth-erltatlvo sources. No member of tho government would allow himself to bo quoted in discussion of tho pcaco rumors, that locently have gained wldo circulation. circula-tion. Tho Associated Press howover, wan authorized to mako public tho foregoing explicit denial. Washington, Sept. 3. The United States will mako no furthor efforts to bring about pcaco In Europe until It has received Information that Us good offices will bo welcomed by both tide? In tho conflict. This was stated stat-ed authoritatively hero today In official offi-cial discussion of tho message from l'opo Benedict, delivered to President Wilson yesterday by Cardinal Gibbons. Gib-bons. from tho fact that tho Vatican Is In close touch with Austria, tho construction con-struction placed by officials on tho pope's message Is that tbo Germanic jiowcrs would bo willing to discuss peace at this time. It was stated by those In closest touch with tho administration ad-ministration that similar word will lmvo to bo received from Great Britain Bri-tain and her allies beforo the president presi-dent will mako any further move. President Wilson has mado !t clear several times that his original offer of services to bring about pcaco rtlll Btands, nnd that ho will do everything every-thing possible to further tho movement. move-ment. Tho United States, how over, will do nothing likely to endanger Its vosltlon as a friend to all belligerents, belliger-ents, it was said authoritatively. Details of tho conference between Cardinal Gibbons nnd Presldeut Wilson Wil-son nt which tho possibility of brlnp-r brlnp-r ' ing about peaco In Europo was dls- Sjrr ci'BRed, were lacking today. Tho car dinal's visit, howover, caused w'do-spread w'do-spread discussion In official nnd diplomatic dip-lomatic circles today. Cardinal Gibbons had returned to Ins homo in Ilaltlmoro without definite defin-ite information regarding tbo Wh'to Iinuro conferonco having been madii known or tho text of tho messago which ho convoyed to President Wilson Wil-son from Popo Benedict regarding IJ(cc having been disclosed. it is known, however, that the pontiff's pon-tiff's mossago praised President Wilson's Wil-son's nttitudo and indicated a belief that tho United States might bo in n position to help in bringing about a JOSButlcn of hostllltlcn in Europo. Tho cardinal also told tho president that tho United States had been placed plac-ed in n very advantageous position to aid In bringing to an end tho conflict con-flict owing to tbo apparent settlement of tho issue botween tbo United States nnd Gormnny over submarine warfnro which had greatly aided tho calico of pcaco, It was said unofficially that tho president was greatly pleased with the messago and with tho Interview. Tho pope's messago will not bo mado public by this government, although al-though there would bo no objection If Cardinal Gibbons gives It out. Unough of tbo contents of tho messago mes-sago is known, however, to give basis bas-is for Indicating that Austria, Germany Ger-many and Turkey nro not ndverso to discussing poyco. Further developments as an outcome out-come or tho conferonco arc awaited with tho dcopest interest by official nnd diplomats nllko. Possibility of Joint action for peace among tho heads of noutral nations nnd tho popo is suggested, although this idea lacks official confirmation. |