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Show GERMANY'S TERMS 10 BE GIVEN OUT MAIN COMMITTEE OF 'CHSTAG AND BUNDESRATH DISCUSSED MATTER MONDAY. Alleged Outline Floating Around Resemblance Re-semblance to General Tenor of Proposals Noted; New German Party Would War On. London-.-Ger.nany will shortly be able to publish her peace terms, according ac-cording to Dr. Georg Michaebs ti e Gorman chancellor. Dr. Michael.s . an interview said he had so inlormed the reichstag main committee, an r.x change Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen Cop-enhagen state. . "The main committee," said i Michaelis in the interview, "had tried to make final arrangehents regarding peace conditions and the question ot Alsace-Lorraine, but no decision has vet been takeu. The question, however, how-ever, was eagerly discussed and Germany Ger-many will soon be able to publish her peace terms." " ' Washington. What purported to be an outline of Germany's peace' terms has been circulated among diplomats here within the last two . weeks, but has been regarded by the entente embassies em-bassies and most of the neutrals as a "feeler." The origin of the so-called terms was not disclosed, but they are said to have been written by Foreign Secretary von Kuehlmann before his visit to Vienna, which since has been pointed to as strengthening the probability prob-ability that they bear evidences of authenticity. au-thenticity. Briefly, the so-called terms were as follows : i Restoration of Belgium and northern north-ern France, to be paid for out of the sale of Germany's colonies to Great Britain. Alsace and Lorraine to be independent independ-ent states (high officials recently have stated anew the determination of France to be satisfied with nothing less than the recovery of her lost provinces.) prov-inces.) Trieste to be a. "free port." Serbia and Rumania to be restared and Serbia to have a port on the Adriatic. Adri-atic. The Balkan question and the status of Turkey to be subjects for negotiation. negotia-tion. Disarmament and international police. po-lice. Freedom of the seas with Great Britain in control of the English channel chan-nel until the projected tunnel is built between Dover and Calais. This outline of terms, circulated without definite stamp of any official authority, it will be noted, bears in many respects a resemblance to the general tenor of the peace proposals of Pope Benedict. ... By some diplomats such an outline is regarded as presenting something susceptible of discussion. It is discussed dis-cussed merely ass a possibility, without with-out having yet advanced fully into the range of probability. |