I was sitting opposite the commandant, on my right was Doctor Lantieri with four stripes on his sleeve, and on my left was young Captain de Santis, who had met us. Curiously enough, both were of Corsican descent, and showed it so distinctly that when some one mentioned the great Italian bag of Austrian prisoners after the cessation of hostilities, and how the “Tiger” had said you simply couldn’t hold them back, I got a bit worried, though nobody else seemed to mind. The young captain took from his pocket a couple of proclamations dropped by German aviators on the Hartmann yesterday—and furthermore presented me with a large panoramic view of the Champagne sector, where he had fought. I thought it was something rightly belonging to his family, but there was that in his proud, Corsican gesture which forbade refusal. =The German People Offers Peace.= The new German democratic government has this programme: =“The will of the people is the highest law.”= The German people wants quickly to end the slaughter. The new German popular government therefore has offered an =Armistice= and has declared itself ready for =Peace= on the basis of justice and reconciliation of nations. It is the will of the German people that it should live in peace with all peoples, honestly and loyally. What has the new German popular government done so far to put into practice the will of the people and to prove its good and upright intentions? a) The new German government has appealed to President Wilson to bring about peace. =It has recognized and accepted all the principles which President Wilson proclaimed as a basis for a general lasting peace of justice among the nations.= b) The new German government has solemnly declared its readiness to evacuate =Belgium= and to restore it. c) The new German government is ready to come to an honest understanding with France about =Alsace-Lorraine.= d) The new German government has restricted the =U-boat War=. =No passengers steamers not carrying troops or war material will be attacked in future.= e) The new German government has declared that it will withdraw all German troops back over the German frontier. f)—The new German government has asked the Allied Governments to name commissioners to agree upon the practical measures of the evacuation of Belgium and France. These are the deeds of the new German popular government. Can these be called mere words, or bluff, or propaganda? Who is to blame, if an armistice is not called now? Who is to blame if daily thousands of brave soldiers needlessly have to shed their blood and die?