FRESH PEACE MOVE EXPECTED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2992, 1 February 1917, Page 5

FRESH PEACE MOVE EXPECTED

PRESIDENT WILSON'S INTENTIONS

ONE OF TWO COURSES

Mew York, January 30. The Now York "World's" correspondent at Washington says that envoys of the Entente oxpect President Wilson to make- another nioyo for peace. They consider that ho will follow two possible courses: First, he may formally invito an official discussion by the belligerents oij the principles of his peace speech; I second', ho may invite tho belligerents to send representatives to confer with tho United States, with, a view to adopting general principles as a bnsis of an armistico ponding actual peace treaties. —Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn discussion inlmemcan senate THE MONROE DOCTRINE Now York, January 30. Mr, Lewis, the Democratic Whip, has introduced a, resolution in tho Senate declaring that nothing in President Wilson's address implies the abandonment of tho Monroa Doctrine or tho intention of sending American forces to foreign soil except in tho dfefenco of American interests. Mr. M'Cu'mbp.r (Republican) introduced a resolution which stated that whilo tho Senate does not favour crushing any belligerent, it also does not favour peace without victory. Mr. Cummins (Progressive Kepublican), in a speech in, the Senate, said that if President Wilson's plan were adopted the United .States would be constantly engaged in trars in which she was not interested or in rebellion against alien authority, which tho President sought as the world's overlord. The Senate tabled Mr. Cummins's resolution demanding a debate oii ( tho President's address. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable j Assn. PAN-GERMAN GREED ['GERMAN SOCIALISTS WILL' RESIST ANNEXATION. Amsterdam] January 30. Herr Schiedemann, speaking in Berlin on Sunday, opposed annexation. I Ho declared that the Imperialists causi ed l the war. Tho Socialists granted tho war credits in 1914 because the Chancellor had stated that the war was not a, war of conquest. They must now prevent the greedy pan-Germans from changing tho I'olicy.—Aus.-N.Z. C-ablo Assn.

AUSTRIAN WOMEN OLAMOUBING FOR PEACE. London, January 30.

'At Vienna there was a great pence demonstration by women, who resolved to appeal to the women of enemy countries to declare their desire for peaco. — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

GAMBLING ON PEACE RUMOURS

£100,000 PROFIT ON A "TIP.",

New York, Jamiary 30. 'At tho resumption of the inquiry into tho leakage of information regarding President Wilson's Note, Mr. Baruch, a leading Wall Street broker, testified that ho made £100,000 profit late in December, simply because ho had 1 foreeight in interpreting Horr Holwegg's an.d Mr. Lloyd George's speeohes and their pffects on peace. Ho insisted that to i was not aided by leakage of information from Washington. Ho made 476,000 dollars on the 'Stook .-Exchange- in thirteen days in December. When lib read Mr. Lloyd' George's speech in the House of Commons on December 19, followed by the rejection of Germany's peaco offer, with tho word "but," ho accepted the "but" as a peace tip, and sold 28,400 shares in steel short.— Aus.-N.Z. Oablo Assn.