31 MARCH 1917, Page 11

CHINA AND GERMANY'S PEACE TERMS. [To THE EDrroa or THE

" SPECTATOR."i

Sm,—A correspondent in far-away Yunnan, the Chinese province, writing under date January 4th, says :-

" Unbounded astonishment has been expressed by local Chinese over Germany's peace terms. Germany said she was prepared to hold out for twenty years,' is their astonished comment. Her desire for peace has not increased her prestige in native eyes." The quotation will doubtless prove of interest to many of your