Zurich, Sept. 30.
Immediately after the anticipated Anglo-French rejection of German peace proposals, the German Air Force would launch far-ranging mass attacks on British and French naval and merchant fleets, reports quoting Berlin quarters stated today.
The German Government, these despatches declared, did not expect the Western Democracies to accept its peace terms. The high-publicized "peace offensive," German quarters were said to admit, was launched mainly for home consumption, to convince Germans that further drastic sacrifices were necessary "since 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 concluded, would not hesitate to sacrifice a large number of its planes if it were able thereby to destroy Anglo-French superiority on the seas and shatter the hunger blockade of the German coasts.—Havas,
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