Zurich, Sept. 30.
Immediately after the anticipated Anglo-French rejection. of German peace proposals, the German Ase Force would launch far-ranging mass attacks on British and French naval fand merchant fleets, reports quoting. Berlin quarters stated today.
'The German Government, these despatches declared, did not' expect the Western Democracies to accept peace terms. The high-publicized "pene offensive," German quarters were said. to admit, was launched mainly for home consumption, to convince Germans that further. drastic sacrifices wore necessary "singe Britain and France are the 'The air offensive against the two Democracies' shipping would be supported by German naval units. The Reich, reports from Berlin con-eluded, would not hesitate to sacrifice large number of its planes. if it were able thereby to destroy Anglo-French superiority on the. eas and shatter the hunger blockade of the German coasts.—Havas,
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