THE PEACE NOTE

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1917, Page 3

THE PEACE NOTE

GERMAN PACIFISTS. j [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] BERNE, Sept. 25. , A wireless message states that the j Cardinal and Archbishop of Budapest i presided at a pacifist meeting there to-day. Herr Erzberger was the principl speaker. M. Korolvs and other Hungarian politicians were present. j Tho meeting carried a resolution in • favour of peace on the basis of the j Papal Note. THE PAPAL VIEW. ROME, Sept. 24th. j A. wireless to the “Giornale d’ltalin” , states that the Austrian and German ! replies created different views at the, Vatican. While Cardinal Gaspari con-, siders them wholly unsatisfactory the Pope regards them us adhering to the pontifical It is believed that the Holy See will reply by verbal i Notes, hoping to obtain more specific j statements. TURKEY AND BULGARIA. j REPLIES TO POPE. ! COPENHAGEN. Sept, 23. The “Tageblatt’s” Vienna .correspondent states that Turkey’s and Bulg.aria’s replies to the Pope were deliv-, ered yesterday. Turkey demands that' her territory shall be unviolated. Bulgaria demands the regulation of frontiers. - | PULLING THE POPE’S LEG. [per press ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. J (Received This T)av at 11.25. a.m.) ROME, Sept. 24. The {newspapers arc unanimous in regarding the Central Empire’s replies as a grotesquo patchwork of reticence and subterfuge. They describe the authors as obsequious charlatans. W bile repeating ;their profession of kissing the Papal slipper they are really pulling the Pope’s leg.