Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-12-13
0ERMANY, AUSTRIA, TURKEY
AND BULGARIA JOIN IN PRO-
POSAL TO ENTER INTO
NEGOTIATIONS.
u. S., SPANISH AND SWISS
EMBASSIES GET NOTES
NoutraIs Asked to Transmit Terms to
Hostile Governments-Germ Chan
celIor Makes Announcement Be-
fore Crowded Reichstag-
Claims Position Stronger.

Berlin, Dec. 13.-Germany and it's al
lies have proposed to enter forthwith
into peace negotiations. The Austrian.
Turkish and Bulgarian governments
are making similar proposals. These
proposals have been transmitted also
to the Vatican.
The propositions which they will
bring forward are, according to Chan.
cellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg appro.
pirate for the establishment of a last.
ang peace.
~ Receives Neutral Enyoys.
-Chunceltor von Dernr1ann=r1o11wes
has received the representatives OF
the United States, Spain and Switzer
land. Z
These are the nations protecting
German interests in hostile foreign
countries. The chancellor transmit
ted a note to them and asked them
50 bring it to the knowledge of the
hostile governments.
Announcement Given Out.
The following announcement was
given out by the semi-of1icial Over
seas News agency:
The chancellor has received one aft.
er another the representatives of the
United States of America and Spain
and Switzerland, that is, of the states
protecting German interests in hostile
foreign countries. The chancellor
transmitted to them a note and asked
them to bring it to the knowledge of
the hostile; governments. The note
read in the reichstag by the chancellor.
Propose Peace Parieys.
= In the note the four allied (CentraD
powers propose to enter forthwith on
peace negotiations. The propositions
which they bring for such negotiations
are, according to their firm belief, ap-
propriate for the establishment of
lasting peace.
The governments at Vienna, Con-
stantinople and Sofia transmitted iden-
tical notes and also communicated
with the Holy See and all other neu
tral powers
ChanceIIor's Statement.
The sehancellor's statement to the
reichstag, as issued by the press bu-
seau, is ais follows:
.Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
has announced in the reichstag that
Germany, together with her allies, con.
scious of their responsibility before
God, before their own nation and be-
fore humanity had proposed to the
hostile powers that they enter peace
negotiations. >-+.
All Members Present
practically all members of parlia-
mont appeared in answer to an llnex-
pected summons.
"A crowded house and thronged gal
leries listened In respectful silence
when the chancellor arose for his
speech, in which he first outlined the
Extraordinary political situation and
hen, insisting upon the achievements
pf the Central Powers, made the an
sspuncement which possibly may act as
the turning point in the war, which
sor more than two years has held the
world under its spell
German Hope Fulfilled.
1.-THE chancellor said it was fortu
nate that the reichstag had not been
adjourned, but the calling of the next
meeting had been left to the discre
zion Of the president.
"sThe decision,' said the chancellor,
swas caused by the hope that soon hap
py events in the field would be record
I'D. Thathope has been fulfilled quick
rr almost than expected. shall be
tfief, for o,lrS actions speak for them
'lves-