WHEN PEACE IS MADE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2262, 23 September 1914, Page 5

WHEN PEACE IS MADE

THEPAETITIONING OF AUSTRIA A RUSSIAN VIEW Petrograd, September 31. JLne "Bourse Gazette" says that before there is peace Russia must secure the freedom of the Slavs from the foreign, yoke, and end the nightmare of German militarism. "This will involve a dissolution of the Hapsburg monarchy and the abolition of Prussian hegemony; Austria must be deprived of Gaiicia and of Slav Territory, and must also cede Trieste .and Trentino to Italy, and Transylvania and a part of Bukovina to Rumania."

The portions of Austria-Hungary which the Italian Identiets have long desired to see included in Italy are those which are racially or linguistically -Italian. They are the Trontuio (or Southern Tyrol), Gorz, Trieste, lstna, and Dalmatia. ' . .

VICTORY ON LAND AND DEFEAT AT SEA, WHAT GERMANY LOOKS FOR. ' (Rec. September 22, 6.40 p.m.) London, September 21. An Englishman, who has Just returned from Germany, says that Berlin persists that Gerqmny is warring purely in self-defence against the wickod ambitious of tho Powers of the Entente, who nro anxious.to crush their strongest rival. Educated Germans confidently expect victory on land, and are prepared for a navaldefeat. They assert there is an impossibility of famine in Germany, as the crops nave been extraordinary.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)

BELGIUM AND PEACE. Sydney, September 22. Replying to a cable message from tho Premier inquiring whether there was any foundation for tho report that Germany was endeavouring to make separate peace with Belgium, Mr. T.' A. Ooghlan (Agent-General for New South Wales in London) cables that nothing is known of the matter at the Foreign Office or the Belgian Embassy. The rumour is believed to have emanated from a French source. Tho Belgian Embassy states that Belgium will not consider peaco overtures without consulting the Allies.