Amsterdam, Nov. 16.
ERMANY today avows but one and only one aim "Destruetion of British world domination," foreign journalists reported from Berlin this evening.
The time for hesitation and mediation has passed, according to German political quarters, who requested foreign news correspondents to inform the world of their opinions, In their despatches from the German capital, the newsmen declared that the reasons for this abrupt change in Germany's attitude remained mysterious. Yesterday they pointed out, many observers still believed that the Reich ight give a moderately-worded reply to the Belgian-Dutch mediation offer.
Wilhelmstrasse quarters shattered all hopes, when they stated this evening that the conversation held with Belgian and Dutch envoys by Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, constituted the only German reply to the low countries' peace appeal.
The Dutch Minister returned to The Hague from Berlin, it was further rey ted today, and the Dutch Cabinet met this evening to study the international situation following the all-round rejection of its mediation offer.
"Germany's brutal reply to our mediation offer kills every faint hope fof peace that may have been left after receipt of the Allied Notes," Dutch political quarters concurred this evening. The press took up the chant of severe criticism.
The "Algemeen Handelsblad" wrote:
suddenly kills glimmers of hope
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