THE WAR.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 May 1917, Page 2

THE WAR.

(Per United Press Association] War Not Ending. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.) LONDON, May 10. Lord Derby, in an interview wiwu tlie United Press, said the war would not end until the United States’ luu fighting force is thrown into the scale. Not until the United States makes war as if she alone faces Germany, will there be a possibility of predietling the end. The bigger the blow the United States can deliver, and cne quicker she can deliver it, the sooner will come victory. Germany is actively propagating the (idea that the end of the war is near in order to mislead the United States. Thig is untrue, but Germany is weakening. Nevertheless she is not yet ready to accept any terms but her own. Lord Kitchener -always held the war would bo a. tong one. America’s moral effect will be great against Germany. If troops are sent to (Russia it will undoubtedly hearten Russia greatly.

Another Ally. WASHINGTON, May I«. Honduras has broken off relation* with Germany, and taken. her place with the United States. [Honduras is a republic in Central America. It lias a population of 650,000, the majority of whom are Indian and 'European races. The army has a military strength of 55,284, of whom 35,706 are classified as of first rank." The country possesses great agricultural resources and much mineral wealth.

British System. [REUTER’S SERVICE. —COPYRIGHT.) PARIS, May 18. 'Lo Temps’s” correspondent on the British front says that eaoh British Army has five hundred agricultural workers, who are supervised by officers who were agriculturalists before the war. They are engaged in clearing up tli© battered ground with special machines from England, thus helping to increase France’s food production. PARIS, May 19.

r J)ha French people greatly appreciate the British help in restoring the agriculture of the liberated territory. Already 100,000 acres of the Somme Department are under cultivation. Food Supply. LONDON, May 18. ILord Davonport (Food Controller) shortly invites the local authorities to organise food distribution and control. WASHINGTON, May 18. A doctor, who has returned from Berlin, states that crows are selling at Is 8d each and sparrows at 4d. LONDON, May 18. The Food Controller (Lord Devonport) expects that if the scheme projected far America’s co-opelation in food supplies is successful that it will materially improve the situation lor ourselves and the Allies.

*-fcent to America. LONDON, May 18. Oommamder Evans, who was in command of the destroyer Broke in the recent naval action, has been lent vo (America in exchange for Bear-Admiral Simms. Italian Politics. >- ■ BOM®, May IV. The Socialist Party in a manifesto, demands the abolition of the Senate and the right of Parliament to meet when it chooses, universal stiff era ge for both sexes, unrestrictel freedom in regard to strike propaganda, direct government , control of the Foreign Policy, aggrarian reforms, and progressive taxation. The “Giornalle Italia” characterises the manifesto as unpatriotic anl calculated to sow discord.

A Big Fire. NEW YORK, May'lß. Damage to tlio extent of £200,000 was caused by a fire at tlie National Electrolytic Company’s, -explosives’ plant at Niagara.

Socialist Conference. (Australia & N.Z. Cable Association) STOCKHOLM, May 19. Branting, presiding at the great International Socialist mating, declared that it was the neutrals’ duty to work, not for peace at any price, but for a peace that would be just and durable, and founded on tlie principles of universal democracy. He added: “The German Government refuses to allow opposition Socialists to come to Stockholm, perhaps it will be forced to permit them if it remains obdurate. That will bo a great moral victory for us, revealing Germany’s uneasy conscience and fears. Troelstra, the Dutch Socialist leader, declared that Germany is haraiy likely to follow -Russia’s example. Eaoh country was settling its difficulties in its own way.

lAkelrod, the Russian Socialist, said that Lenin’s propaganda for sabotage in the Army was an act of folly. The only possible consequenco would be to crush the Russian revolution by German absolutism. Neither was a separate peace thinkable. That would be treason to Belgium and the other small oppressed nations. . ll'uysmans, the Belgian representative, demanded reparation and independence for Belgium. Sacha,soff, the Bulgarian representative, emphasised the powerlessness of the Bulgarian workers against the bellicose spirit of the leading classes.

Conference Resolutions. LONDON, May 19. German agents are again busy in Afghanistan, inciting an invasion of Turkestan. ROME, May 19. Tlie Allied Commercial Conference passed a resolution that the peace treaty should require Germany to replace the ships illegally sunk. It also parsed a resolution in favour of a compulsory system of metric weights and measures, and discarding tho suggestion of unified coinage.