THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 23 June 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

CAustaaliia-New Zealand Cable Service/ (Received This -Day, 8.45 a.m.) STRIVING FOE PEACE. Amsterdam, June 22. The German vHoman Catholic clergy are straining every effort to use the Catholic world-wide organization to secure peace* The German press exhort Catholics in Switzerland, Spain and! Holland to take up the leadership. THE SUBMARINE MENACE. (Reuter'e Service). London, June 22. An official report, from Paris, _on the shipping for the week ending 17th June, is as follows: — Arrivals 1028 Sailings 1122 Sinkings (over 1600 tons) — Sinkings (below 1600 tons) 5 Unsuccessfuly attacked , 5 THE OORfPSE FACTORY. (Time® Service). London, June 22. Pirrie Robinson, tihe Times's correspondent, states that after clearing a wood on the Messines front, Welsh troops discovered a lot of German corpses, read'yi packed in bundles, doubtless for transmision to the corpse factory. Bundles, carefully made up of loose arms and legs, were stuffed in to make good weight. ((Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) THE TRADE CORPORATION. (Australia-New Zealand Serveie). London, June 22. The Trade Corporation is offering two and a half million sterling of capital for public scubscription. IS LABOR THIRSTY ? Cabinet has decided to relax the beer restrictions and permit a larger output forthwith. This decision will | avert widespread la.bor discontent. NEW BAUBLES. An authorised account of the new Order of tihe British Empire says there are five classes. The men will be styled Knights of the Grand Cross, Knights-Commanders, Commanders, Officers and Members, with abbreviations G.8.E., K.8.E., C.8.E., etc. "Women will be styled Dames of the Grand Cross, Dames-Commanders, Commanders, Officers and Members, with abbreviations of G.8.E., D.8.E., C.8.E., etc. The first two men's clas>ses confer knighthood, find the first two women's classes are entitled to use • the prefix Dame. The Prince of Wales has been appointed Grand Master, and the King also ie instituting an Order for Companions of Honor on a limited number of men and women without carrying a title of precedence A GREAT BATTLE. London, June 22. Philip Gibbs states:—A great battle progresses on the west front. It blazes into sudden fury at different points, but always there is steady gunfire. In the last few days Monchyt became the arena of another bloody fight, and Bullecourt again became hot. What is regarded here as "a comparatively little show" would have been considered a big battle in the Boer War. "BLOODLESS FRANCE AND A DYING BELGIUM." The Daily Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent states that refugees describe Belgium as being in a state economically critical. The morale of the population is excellent, but men and women returned from iGerman slavery are permanent wrecks. Von IHindenburg is quoted as saying: "I want a bloodless France and a dying Belgium." THE PEACE MOVEMENT. Stockholm, June 21. Schiemann and colleagues have declared .their readiness to participate in an international conference at Petrograd, pointing out that they concur in Russia's avowed aim of peace without annexations or indemnities. j RUSSIA'S PEACE TERMS. j Washington, June 22. ! Baklimetieff, head of the Russian mission, has made the statement that the revolution achievement will be reflected in laws to be enacted in a Constitutional Assembly] which will be convoked' as soon as 'possible. The Government is straightening out disorganisation in all branches, and is re-organizing the Fuel, Raw Material, Food, Transport, and Financial Departments. The Government unqualifiedly rejects thoughts of a separate peace, aims for <a> prompt achievement of universal peace with no dominion over other nations and no seizure of their property. Russia wants peace without annexations, witlb no contribuI

tions, but based on a nation's free choice to mould her own destinies. The defeat of Russia and the Allies would bo the greatest cause of misery; there could be no stable peace until the German autocracy and tyranny was destroyed. ■SUN FEIN MISSION'. New York, June 21. It has been learned that in addition to Mr O'Connor, M.P., another Irish mission, composed of S'inn Feiners, is coming to America.