THE STOCKHOLM PEACE CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3086, 17 May 1917, Page 5

THE STOCKHOLM PEACE CONFERENCE

(VIEWS OF BELGIAN SOCIALISTS . London, May 15. ; The "Daily, Chronicle's" ; correspond , dent- afc Stockholm'states that the Bel- ' gian Socialists, M. Vandervelde and M. i)eman, who are en route to Petrograd, interviewed the Swedish and Dutch! Socialist delegates regarding the pioposed Peace Conference at Stockholm. The tatter explained that they hoped ■ to confer successively -with delegations from the belligerent and neutral wran.tries with a view to outlining peace proposals on the lines of President Wilson's, programme, arid thereafter convening a Joint International Socialist Assembly of all countries. M. Vandervelde, who is president of the International Socialist Bureau, declared that tho Belgian Socialists could not be asso- • ciated with Socialists supporting the Imperialistic aims of the Central Powers. The Duteh and Scandinavian Committee then abandoned the scheme or a Joint Conference. Simultaneously Germauy announced its refusal to allow the German minority Socialists 10 go to Stockholm. ' Meanwhile, M. Vandervelde and M. Deraan proceed to Petrograd vrith a, view to organising a Labour and Socialist Conference of tho Entente cations in order to bring the Ruseian Soldiers' and Workmen's Counoil into . line with their Allied comrades.-»-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.