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Show IEUIOiI ALLIES PROPOSEPARLEYS ASK THAT CONFERENCE OF DELEGATES DEL-EGATES OF BELLIGERENTS BE HELD AT ONCE. Reply to President Wilson's Note In Which He Asked Warring Nations to State Their Aims Has Been Received. Berlin. Germany and her allies Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey replied Tuesday to the note o President Pres-ident Wilson, In which he asked that the belligerent nations state the aims ;or -which they were fighting. The proposal is made by the central powers that a conference of the delegates dele-gates of all the belligerents ibe held Immediately in a neutral city. The task of preventing future wars, the official statement says, can be begun only after the end of the present Struggle. The text of Germany's answer to President Wilson's note was transmitted trans-mitted Tuesday to James W. Gerard, the American ambassador. It says: "The high-minded suggestion made by the president of the United States America in order to create a basis for the establishment of a lasting peace has been received and considered consid-ered by the imperial government in the friendly spirit which was expressed express-ed in the president's communication. "The president points out that which he has at heart and leaves open the choice of the road. . .. "To the imperial government an ? '. Immediate exchange of views seems o"t '"' to be tbe most appropriate road in ' order to reach the desired result. 'Jy I . begs therefore in the sense of ' the declaration made on December 12, -which offered a hand for peace negotiations, to propose an immediate meeting of delegates of the belligerent belliger-ent states, at a neutral place. "The imperial government is also i of the opinion that the great work of preventing further wars can be l begun only after the end of the pres-1,- nt struggle of the nations. V "It will, when this moment shall have come, be ready with pleasure (Al to collaborate entirely with the United Unit-ed States in this exalted task." ! . Tfie answer of the central powers .'Ptin. concludes -with the usual diplomatic of sin Serins o politeness, i . i |