STRONG-GERMAN CRY FOR PEACE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2694, 14 February 1916, Page 5

STRONG-GERMAN CRY FOR PEACE

( ' ] ' TEUTON MINORITY AT PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AN AFTER-WAR SPECTRE it : • — ' ; - By Telegraph-Press A6sociation-Ooßyrfelit ™_ _ London, February 11. e rhe Exchange Telegraph Agency's-; " correspondent at Copenhagen says: ~ From Germany one hears now only.' n the strong cry of tbepe ©pi© for peace.'*; e GENERAL PEACE OR SEPARATE : TREATIES. J Zurich, February 11. T Professor Carl Binding, a well-knonvn. : Leipzig jurist, in an article entitled) *- u 0 }y a ' VS -^ eaoe —by a General' ; ieaco Congress, or Separate Treaties"] _ . argues that the Central Powers unisif insist on a separate peace. The Cen-! t Powers, he says,., would, be in aj minonty at a general congress,' - which i e Britain would dominate. "She, of all! the enemy States, can wait the louge est for peace." Dr. Binding.belieresj 'bat when a separate peace'is once; a successfully entered upon, one enemy; 1 State after another will, accept when 1 they can't hold out any longer. ' J ' A PEACE OPTIMIST OF PRUSSIA. [. (Rec. February 13, 5.10 p.m.) Amsterdam, February 11. : s Baron- von Zcidlitz, speaking on tlio ;-, Budget Reporter in the Prussian Diet, t said that in view of the whole wkr t situation, the conclusion of peace in the near future was not impossible, s and an announcement as to Germany's s aims appeared to be necessary. - THE OUTLOOK AFTER THE WAR, f i 3 GLOOMY PROSPECTS FOR THE i ENEMY. j Zurich, February 11. ! 1 Speaking at the Industrial Club at ■ Vienna on the' outlook after the war, - Herr Riedl, an officer in the Ministry of 1 Commerce, said that Austria's commer- : - cial situation for the first six months - will be extremely dangerous, owing to the veritable famine in raw material; ■ Only two countries, Britain and America, will be able to resume industrial • production immediately. Although Austria's and Germany's industries were" intact, they lacked raw materials: Unless Austria were prepared to prohibit importations, Britain and America might take all the profits of the situation._ Herr Riedl urged the prompt organisation of their industrial interests. Peace, he said, might come sooner than they expected—it could come over-night. TWO BIG GERMAN BANKS COLLAPSE j THOUSANDS OF DEPOSITORS ' - RUINED. (Rec. February 13, 5.5 p.m.) Lausanne, February 13. : The "Gazette" states that two of th» largest banks in South Germany have filed statements of their liabilities, . which total fivo hundred million marks; Thousands of depositors ,have beer ruined. Another report names the Stapperfenne Schulz Company of Stuttgart ai being bankrupt. AMERICA'S ENVOY TO EUROPE ; COLONEL HOUSE INTERVIEWED; ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services/ (Rec. February 12, 5.20 p.m.) London, February 12. Colonel House, the President's envo; to Europe, interviewed in London, saii he had not heard any peace discussioni anywhere, and purposely avoided them He spoke guardedly concerning condi tions in Berlin, He said that he sav no signs of anything particular. Asked if his trip had been successful he replied: 'It depends upon what yoi call successful. I am quite satisfied.'