STILL PLOTTING FOR PEACE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3102, 5 June 1917, Page 5

STILL PLOTTING FOR PEACE

AN OFFICIAL GERMAN NOTE

HUNS'"SIMPLE WANTS"

~,, . London, Jimc 3; ; Hie "North German Gazette" has nuA* lmhed nil official. Note, declaring thai. Germany is not seeking territorial agKtaiHliSDineiit, hoi- to increase her eco-' < nomic nnd political power, fehe only, wishes to defend in;r owiv territory ivi order fo secure guarantees for her fur! ture.—Aiis.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMAN ROMAN CATHOLIC INTRIGUE raACE OVERTURES TO MUSNCE cJ RELIGIONISTS. Paris, June 3. i (Archbishop Baudrillard, President ofi the French. 'Roman Catholic Propaganda. 1 Society, in ini article in "La Gtoix,"' thei Itomaii X'li-Uiolic orgnu, states that Ger-f man Jfoman Catholics recently attenipt-i ud to induce their French, co-religionistS] to join in a- peace movement. Herr Erz-i larger, leader of the German Centre 1 (Catholic) Party, attended a meeting ofi yxisa Catholics on May 38. They prom-i iseii to support tie movement, andi agreed lo sound the.leading .French Catholics and Bishops. Herr Eraberger toldi his intimate friends that the real reasons of hie Swiss mission n« that Germany was exhausted and must have- peace Terr! eoon.-The iYencli Catholics refused, say- j ing- that no party was entitled to mdbsti-j tuto itself for the Government ia the) decision . of such . problems.—Ane.-N.Z. ■ Cable Aesn. ' . ' ,

INTRIGUE BY PAMPHLET AND NEWSPAPER AUSTRIA DOING GERMANS' WOBK IN THE BALKANS. Berne, June 3. At Germany's instigation, Austria, is distributing countless pamphlets «nd newspaper articles in Rumania and Serbia, declaring that the Austrians and Germans are their real friends, and adding that Eussia liad iised Serbia as a eatapaw for her own purpose, and driven. Rumania into the war.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. •'

GERMANY MUST PAY THE PRICE MR, KIPLTNG ON THE TEEMS OF SETTLEMENT. Bordeaux, June 3. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, in an article ittf. a newspaper, states that the, French need. Lot be over-svorried by the wholesale systematic destruction of Northern. France. Civilisation will not allow one' country to assassinate another with iro-> pvinity. Germany will pay for all she has done iu France. The Allies are bound to take vengeance, not as revenge, i but as a surgical operation needed by thel Germane. , •