Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 49, 1 June 1916, Page 5

Great Britain

PEACE TALK QUASHED. NOTHING TO BE GAINED BY DISCUSSION. [United Press Association.] (Received 9.35 a.m.) London, May 31. In the House of Commons, Sir A. B. Markham (Liberal member for Notts) asked, in view of Hollweg’s declaration that Germany was ready to make peace 'and blaming the Allies for withholding peace, whether the Allies would inform Germany through a Neutral country tile definite terms on which they are willing to make peace, provided Germany will act similarly. Mr Asquith said there was nothing in Hollweg’s statement to indicate that Germany was prepared to consider any terms for safeguarding the interests of the Allies and the future peace of Europe. Ho had nothing to add to Sir Edward Grey’s recent speech in the House of Commons.

Sir A. B. Markham asked what end would be gained by not informing Geimany what our actual terms of peace would be, Mr Asquith: The question is a debateable one. I cannot usefully add to what I have already said.

NO WHITSUN HOLIDAYS. London, May 80. The conference agreed that the workers should be paid time and a-half during Whitsuntide, with a postponed holiday on .full rates after July, when they would be taken in batches. Rooms had already been booked for Whitsuntide, and the Clyde and Tyne workers would be saved any monetary loss. N SERVANTS AND GROOMS. London, May 30. In the House of Lords, Lord Middleton called attention to Mr Churchill’s 'statement that two hundred thousand officers’ servants and fifty thousand grooms were behind the lines.

Lord Kitchener sail that the servants and grooms served in the trenches, and were not considered as being behind the fighting-line, and he thought that Mr Churchill thoroughly realised that fact.