The German Government issued an angry denial last night of reports that Chancellor Adolf Hitler is contemplating a peace offer to France. Branding the reports as "absurd," the Nazi statement said Germany had "taken up the gauntlet" where the British and French hed thrown it down, and that the European war would be one to the finish.
The statement stressed Germany's version of the Western Front fighting—that the French were being pushed out of Germany and that France had not been invaded but added that "to see a peace offensive in this is completely absurd."
German quarters indicated Italy and Germany planned to act together immediately in asking Turkey to clarity her attitüde toward the Axis Powers—United Press.
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