PEACE TALK

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1918, Page 3

PEACE TALK

| TEMPTING FRANCE. I A GERMAN OFFER. ! ;Received This Dav. at 11.25. a.m.) | LONDON, March 14. j The “British Weekly” reports that : Germany contemplates tempting France , by offering to guarantee large French loans to Russia, and thus appeal to the j so-called avarice of the French peasnnj try. The “British Weekly” adds that France will repudiate the offer with scorn. A SERBIAN DENTAL. " ' TaUSTRAMAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOuIATION &■ REUTER.] (Received This Dav at 10.15. a.m ) LONDON, March 14 The : Press Bureau reports that the Servian Legation emphatically denies the rumour circulated by Germany of peace pourparlers between Serbia and her enemies. f

STAND AS FLINT. AGAINST PEACE TERMS. (Received T!"’s Dnv at 31.25. n.m.) LONDON, March 14. Mr Henderson speaking at the Women's Suffrage Celebration at Queen’s Hall, said the nation had reached a critical stage. It was possible for Count von Bulow, on behalf of the Centrals to say that we were prepared to recognise the status quo ante helium, make considerable concessions to Alsace and Lorraine and adjust differences in regard to the colonies, but we must bo entirely free to deal with Russia. Such a cynical peace would contain the seeds of a future war. We must stand as flint against deserting Russia, j Wo must have peace consistent with the ideals wherefore we entered the war.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ' V MUTINOUS. CREW. (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 14 Advices from Norfolk Virginia, states that the Russian crew of the steamer Omsk seized the ships and demanded that it he managed by a Bolshevik com niittoc. They threatened to land the cargo in Russia instead of Liverpool. The officers disarmed and removed tile nimtineers and arrested three of the ringleaders. N KWSPA PER SUSPENDED. fPKB PRESS ASSOCIATION, —COPYRIGHT.] ROME March 13. The newspaper “Tngeblatt” has been suspended for declaring that if the Central Powers fail to win the war before Ike summer they will he lost. ALL MALES CONSCRIPTED. CHRISTIANIA, March 13. The Government proposes to conscript all males from fifteen to sixtyfive years for agricultural purposes and to commandeer all horses and organise boys from ten to fifteefc to assist in agriculture.

TUBE PANIC COST. LOSS OF 59 PEOPLE. (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) PARIS March 14. Twenty nine women and thirty children were killed in the tube panic. The theatres are not allowed to hold performances of an evening unless air shelters are available nearby. The authorities are overhauling all arrangements for combating air raids in the capital. JAPAN’S POLITICS. I'Roeeived This Dav at 11 25. a.m A TOKIO March 14 Internal politics continue to interfere with the general agreement regaining Siberian intervention. There is a prospect of the Cabinet resigning the near future. The public greatly desire an agreement with America. SERVIAN POLITICS. : , LONDON March 14. A Corfu correspondent reports that the Crown 'Prince has accepted the re signstion of the Prassitch Cabinet, and has conferred with the party leadeis with a view to the formation of a coalition Government. -

RECAPTURED. NEW YORK March 14. The Turks have recaptured Brezum. ARMY PRISONERS. litcHV’ved This Dav at 10.15. » m.) In the Commons Lord Robert Cecil, stated that numerous reports had been received concerning the arming of German and other enemy prisoners in Siberia. The number armed was probably considerable. \ SALE OF WAR BONDS. ,-d This D.v at 11.25. a.in.) LONDON March 14. Hon. Bonar Law stated as a result, of last, week’s campaign the sales of war bonds and war certificates was over 138 millions. EDUCATION ACT. A NEW MEASURE. f v; veil /T-.is Day «t # 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, March 14.

There was an animated favourable debate on Mr Fisher’s new education Bill. Mr Fisher said unless the half time «v«tem in Lancashire and Yorkshire were attacked, the Education Board could not work the bill lwmrs of industry, to the utmost were limited during elementary school life. Tlie cost, of raising the school age was estimated at’one million and the cost of continuation classes nearly nine million, while nursery schools would cost £OOO,OOO. [n addition to making school compulsory until fourteen, the bill ordains that those who had not reiceived wholetime education until sixteen, must, attend day a Continuation school tor right, hours weekly, until they were eighteen. , , This clause was arousing opposition in the North of England particularly in Lancashire, where some masters fear the absence of child labour wil Iseriously interfere with the cotton industry