Armistice Negotiations with Denmark Broken Off

We have just received letters from Copenhagen, according to which the armistice negotiations have now indeed been broken off. On 21 July the Swedish and British envoys, as well as the other diplomats who had departed for headquarters, returned to Copenhagen without having accomplished anything. Although General Naumann had conveyed to General Wrangel the explicit command of the King of Prussia to sign the armistice, although the armistice had already been ratified on the Prussian and Danish sides, Wrangel refused just as explicitly, and instead put forward new conditions, which were decisively rejected by the Danish side. He is said not even to have granted an audience to the foreign diplomats. The Danes were particularly repelled by Wrangel’s condition that he reserved final approval to the Imperial Regent.

We thus owe it solely to the firmness of General Wrangel if Germany is this time spared one of the most disgraceful treaties known to history.