THE PEACE NOTE.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1917, Page 3

THE PEACE NOTE.

FLOW ERY LANG UAGE. MR. ASQUITH’S ORATION. f AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] (Received This Dav at 12.25. p.n>.) LNDON, Sept. 27. Mr. Asquith, in his lioeds speech, said wherever we turn in Central Eastern Europe wo see artificial territorial arrangements offending the population* concerned, and which have been and we must expect as long as they continue to see plots of unrest and potential j war. In conclusion he referred to: tho claims of Italy, Roumaniji, Serbia, j Poland, Greece, and Southern Slavs. | There must be a complete permanent liquidation of these dangerous accounts j on linos of racial affinity, historic tradition and aspiration of a worldwide policy of united peoples in a confederation whereof justice will he the base and liberty, the cornerstone, the limitation of armaments and international arbitration will he milestones on tho road leading to its attainment. . HON. ASQUITH’S ORATION. j TAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] ; LONDON, °7, I [on. Asquith reiterated that they : did not aim at the annihilation or degra < dation of tho Gorman people. It was true llmt the manner wherein the war was engineered, and still more brutal cruelty, rouneu and wicked inventive, whereby the war was carried on, must 1 long affect the world’s estimate of the German character. Nothing caused ■ more' consternation in the world than tho Gorman opinions and applause in • favour of their barbarous transgress- ‘ ions of its Government. It showed from < what unmeasured perils, from what set < hacks to civilisation, mankind had been delivered. * Now that tho Allies have forever - shattered the dreams of German hegemony and Prussian militarism, which was our objective, we. have no other wish for German democracy than after shaking off this sou! destroying incubus to learn lessons of the war and enjoy r fully the blessings of freedom. ' Our. first aim is not the restoration of the status quo hilt, the establishment « of an international system, whore-un-der nations great and small shall ho insured of a. stable foundation, and m dependent development. I assume as matter of course the enemy’s evacuation of the occupied territories as for instance Russia, and France. I have already referred to Alsace Lorraine, and Belgium. GERMAN PEACE TERMS. 11 v< (Reuter’s Telegrams.) * l> BERNE, Sopt. 27. a The “Munchter Post” states that d :ho Kaiser has approved of Dr Michael- w .8 outlining Germany’s minimum peace ol :erms in tho Reichstag. The Austrian li aowspapors state that this speech will it ishor in the. last phase of the war. , st THE POPE’S APPEAL. 0 b’ ROME, Sept. 27th. ]< The Vatican has announced that the •ostoration of Riga was explicitly and y,mplicitly suggested in the Pope's ap- j peal. This is interpreted to mean that a Germany must relinquish her 0) tor a Kingdom of Poland with a German regency if she wishes to meet the J( pope’s conditions . i It is reported tluit Germany has been to.d that tho Pope views with dis- R pleasure any attempts to restrict the (( iberties of Herr Erzeberger «r the w Catholic press, which is firmly supporting the poliev of no annexations.