NEWS OF THE WEEK.
TRULY do great events come huddling on each other. Last week we recorded the sudden destruction of the Coalition Government. This week will be famous in history for the first peace overtures in the Great War. On Tuesday morning England learnt that some mighty thing was to be divulged in the Reichstag that day, and that the prospect was exciting the Germans beyond measure. Our people remained mildly and somewhat cynically curious. On Tuesday afternoon the German wireless told a listening world that the German Chancellor had announced in the Reichstag that on that morning, in accordance with the orders of the Emperor, he had transmitted to the neutral Powers a Note proposing to enter into peace negotiations, and that to this procedure the allies of Germany had conformed. " In a deep moral and religious sense of duty towards this nation, and beyond it towards humanity, the Emperor now considers that the moment has come for official action towards peace."
