THE GERMAN PEACE INTRIGUERS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3119, 25 June 1917, Page 6

THE GERMAN PEACE INTRIGUERS

IERHAN ROHAN CATHOLICS JOIN IN - ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE" CO-RELIGIONISTS Amsterdam, June 22. The German Tioman Catholic clergy are etraining efforts to use the world-wide Roman Catholic 'organisation to secure a German peace. The German Press exhorts the Roman. Catholics in' Switzerland, Spain and Holland to take the leadership.—A'ms.-N.Z. Cable Ansn. , GERMAN SOCIALIST PROPAGANDA • Stockholm, Juno 22. Hew Scheidemann (the German Majority leader) and liis' colleagues have declared their readinese to participate in an international conference at Petrograd* pointing <rut that .they concur with Russia's avowed, aim for peace without annexations or indemnities.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, , Copenhagen, ,;TiMie 22. Five members' of the German Minority Socialists lave left Berlin for Stock-holm—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Aean. \ THE HOFFMANN INCIDENT IN SWITZERLAND GERMAN PRESS SHRIEKS FOR VENGEANCE. ■: Copenhagen, June 22. The "Eolnischo Zeitung," commenting on the anti-German demonstrations in Geneva.in connection with the exposure of Hoffmann's peace intrigue, says •. "Germany will never forget this expression '•oi hatred against her, the equal of -which haa never before been seen. "We must not waste our goodwill on people who conduot themselves as enemies/-Am-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ALL HOPE OF SEPARATE PEACE ABANDONED ' v . ' BY COLLAPSE OF THE HOITMANN INTRIGUE. (Rec. June 24, 5.5 p.m.) ' I Amsterdam, June 22. The collapse of the Hoffmann-Grimm intriauo lias resulted in the abandonment by Germany of all hope pi"a separate neace with Russia. The Government . mouthpiece/ the "Lokal Anzeiger, chides '"■' tho German Government for mot employing surer agents. Other newspapers ofter ■ similar comments. THE METAL FAMINE. (Bee. June 24, 5.5 p.m.) ■ : - Amsterdam, June 23. '-"" Tho great Kaiser ball, 'weighing 5« cwt, which was cast from twenty-two - French guns that were captured in 18/tl, has fallen a victim to the metal oollec tion.— Aus.-N.Z. Cab'lAe Assn. REVOLT AT STETTIN. SUBDUED BY MACHINE-GUNS '.' (Eec. ■Jtine , 2'J, 5.5 p.m.) • , -Stockholm, June 22. The workmen at Stettin, provoked l>v famine; struct; and rose in revolt. IHe authorities suMned them with machine, "ims Women and children participated m the 'outbreak. • The men were given. : the choice of resuming or being sent to tho trenches. Work was then resumed.— <Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. •I ■ •" ■ " HUNGER THE GREATEST SPUR TO \ . PEACE (Rec. Juuo 24, 5.5 p.m.) '' Paris, Juno 23. Letters which have been taken from German prisoners indicate that hunger ;jn Germany is the greatest stimulant to the peace movement. ' There is a general conviction that a revolution is Ml'tam to occur after the war.—Aus.-N./. Cable ■ Assn. >. ■ . NO. RAIN FOyiGIIT WEEKS ( Amsterdam, June 22. ' Except for occasional violent hailstorms, there hae been no Tain in East Germany for eight weeks. The hay is ruined, and the position of the grain crop ie most serious. Tho drought js so had in Bavaria that the Ministry ot A-riculture has ordered the streams to bo dammed in ordor to inundate the fields. Hail and thunderstorms have devastated the whole nreu between Bneg ' and Ohlan, in Silesia. -The "Frankfurter Zeitung" states that ]i«htning exploded munitions works, at Fo'erdc, in.. .Westphalia. / The explosion destroyed tho wortalicds, and two were killed and four injured. Eleven farmsteads were burned down at Cirosschedenbmun, in Bavaria, and many cattle were incinerated—Renter. -'

BRITISH ORGANISED LABOUR AND PEACE TERMS DIRECT URGED. London, June 22. ' The Railwaymen's Conference passed n resolution that in view of the. newt for permanent peac?, organised Labour should elect direct representatives to the body negotiating the terms of peace.— ■Aus'.-N.Z. Cable Assn.