GERMANY WANTS PEACE

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 4 December 1915, Page 5

GERMANY WANTS PEACE

: SATISFACTORY SETTLEMENT REACHED. STATEMENT BY SONNINO. SAFETY OF ALLIES IN MACE- | DONIA. ITALY TO SEE SERBIA RIGHTED. ROME, December A crowded and expectant Chamber received with loud applause Baron Sonnino’s important statement of the position of the Entente's negotiations with Greece, and Italy's own relations with Serbia, which hitherto have been shrouded in mystery. Baron Sonnino' said that Greece’s attitude at one time gave rise to anxiety, but the situation had happily cleared up. Greece had given the required assurances, and there was every reason to believ ? that a satisfactory settlement had been reached regarding the safety and freedom of movement of the Allies’ troops in Macedonia. The presence of the, Italian flag on the Mer side of the Adriatic would constitute* a reaffirmation of Italy’s traditionary policy, including the maintenance of Albanian independence and the strategical defence of the Adriatic, another pivot of Italy’s policy. ! Italy had signed an agreement not j to conclude a separate peace. | Serbia’s independence was of the greatest importance to Italy. Her absorption by Austria would constitute a great danger to Italy, which could •not remain deaf to Serbia’s appeal, ‘and would assist the Serbian army in agreement with the Allies. Italy lair . down the complete restoration of Serbian independence as an indispensable j condition of the termination of the I war. Great cheering and cries of I “Vive le Serbia” followed. Baron Sonnino concluded an impressive declaration by stating that Italy would pursue the war with all her ' strength at all costs, and with every sacrifice. CONSTANTINE NOT A PROGERMAN. FRENCH ENVOY’S, IMPRESSIONS. LONDON, Dec. 2. Jeffreys, the Daily Mail special correspondent, telegraphing from Messina, states that he had interviewed M. Denys Cochin, the French Envoy Jo Greece, who said that he had an enthusiastic reception in Greece and received the impression that the bulk of the people were heartily with the Entente. He passed through a crowd r nvobablv twenty thousand, shou Allta.!" tyivc 1. France! !' and “ Eo " n tl,e B °y?Ue ! ’King was most cordial to he said “and my belief is that IOC ‘. t a pro-German, and that bis ie ts not a l>io neutralhc " os sntis ' S and impressed by the interv.ew -«> L lf"c«nd Note . M. Regarding diplomatic acpenys Cochin **** tive betlon r Greek Government had .1cause the Gmek p , e o{ the ready accept® JJ ct Hague con-non-applicatloll 0 The second ditions of neiura i. • f the Note merely discussed details ■lpplicati tllC lfS ' _ * A : REPORT. ■ _ n.-vrq RETREAT IN DlS■W^order. (Reed 8.15 a,.m.) LONDON, December 3. 4 Montenegrin communique states that after a sharp fight at Potehi the Austrians retreated rn disorder. • ■ ... • i

iHER FUTURE NUT REASSURING IN FLANDERS „ OUTFOUGHT BY THE ALOES THE GREEK SITUATION ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY TO ALLIES ITALY TO COMBINE WITH SERVIANS CONSPIRATORS IN AMERICA FOUND GUILTY

BULGARIANS CUTTING OFF L2ONASTIR. PARIS, Dec. 3. i Le Temps soys the Bulgarians have | crossed the Upper Tehcrna, and taken possession of all the bridges and roads leading to Mon a stir. The Bui- | garians are constituting a new army in the Struma Valley. SERBIANS STILL AT MONASTIR PARIS, Dec. 3. A communique states that tlie Servians arc still occupying Monastic, RUSSIAN CONCENTRATION, PARIS. Dec. 3. A German wireless describes the reports of the concentration of Russians in Bessarabia as merely bluff, as only recruits and schoolboys arc drilling. SERVIANS’ UNSURPASSED DEVOTION. LAST DAYS AT MONASTIR. (Reed. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 3. Salonikan telegrams detail the last I agonies of Monastir. ! For days the Allied commanders at Salonica telegraphed to M. Passitch, asking if all was well, and he invariably replied, “Still holding out.” On Monday afternoon, however, there was an unaccountable delay in replying.it being midnight before Passitch telegraphed, “We are holding a position ) on the Cerna.” Other telegrams from the frontier showed that the end had j come, and that the Bulgarians had ad- | vanced south-east fifteen kilometres beyond Monastir, threatening to surround Servia’s little army. Passltch’s only chance was a precipitate retreat i to Ochrida. Six thousand men from the North arrived at the last moment, and the would have enabled Passitch to prolong his defence, hut they were worn out and had been foodless for j forty-eight hours. Their uniforms were j in rags and hardly any had boots, afI ter the seventeen days’ march on j. mountain roads. They lost 120 by cold ' and hunger, who were left, to die on . the mountains. When they marched in I thev seemed like haggard spectres and i more fit for hospital than for the I firing line, hut they were immediately j ordered to .loin in the battle ouLside j the town where they fought like tigers. HOW THE SERBS WITH DRE .V. f ‘ BRIGANDS TAKE POSSESSION. I ] ARRIVAL AT OCHRID. I (Reed. 10.50 a.m.) j LONDON, December 3. | As the Servians withdrew from Monastir the Bulgarian Committalih, under the brigand Paul Kristov, took possession, and placarded it vith the following manifesto, “Five hundred years ye were under the Turks, three under the Serbs, now ye are free.” Comitadjig paraded the town singing and looting the deserted houses and public buildings. There were many pathetic scenes in Passitch’s retreat. The Servians trudged footsore and famished in a hurricane of snow, the stronger encouraging and helping the weaker men. It was only a ghost of an array and a wonder that it, still held together. The Bulgarians pressed them hard, but they were beaten off and the verteat to Ochrida wffe ‘resumed 1 . 'f’ty'iliarty Jin Ochrida were panic-'styicken and com* rjia-po,-? -i general exodus to- Albania and Greece. i *

AUSTRO-GERMANS ENTER MONASTIR. | AUSTRIAN FLAG HOISTED. (Reed. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 3. Reuter states that the Austro-Ger-mans entered Monastir yesterday, and hoisted the Austrian flag. The Bulgarians are to enter to-day. AUSTRO-GERMAN ACTIVITY. ROME, Doc. ;i. The Comoro della Sera’s Bucharest correspondent says Russian boats ar<> cruising day and night on the Danube and ofl: the shore of Bessarabia. A Zeppelin lias arrived at Rustchuk. ■ The Austro-Germans have taken intimidatory measures on the Bulgarian bank. Austrian monitors have withdrawn from Orsova, fearing that they will be frozen in. CONSTANTINOPLE NEWS. SALONIKA, Dec. 3. Mr. "Ward Price reports that Greeks who have arrived from Constantinople state that food is very dear. The casualties amongst the Turks at the Dardanelles are estimated at 200.000. Many sick and ill-clothed arrive from Gallipoli. The Turks maintain that the Dardanelles canno - ' be forced, and look forward to the time when German ammunition will enable them to drive off the Allies. A Greek said a battery of German 10-inch guns has been sent to Chanak.

AIT AUSTRIAN REPORT. AMSTERDAM, Dec. 3. An Austrian communique states: Italian artillery destroyed several villages behind our front in the Tolmino basin. The enemy repeatedly attached the Gorizia bridge-head, without success. We marched into Plevlji after r. stubborn battle, GERMAN CRITIC PESSIMISTIC NO DECISIVE BLOW IN SERVIA. CONFESSION OF FAILURE IN FRANCE AND RUSSIA. LONDON, Dec. 2. Manor Moral;t, the military writer of the Berliner Tageblatt, in commenting on the present situation, says that, it is not to bo expected that the Serbs would lay down their arms. An Italian expedition co-ordinating with the remains of the Serb army in Albania, is likely. No one claimed that the Germans had given the Serbs a decisive blow. He adds; —‘‘Mho would not prefer Paris to the present * position on the Most front, or. a Sedan in Poland instead of the Russian retreat? Our attacks are not failures but we are surrounded by active oneVv» io S. J ' GERMANS IN FLANDERS. OUTFOUGHT BY THE ALLIES. j THEIR ARTILLERY OUTRANGED. SHELLS POUR LIKE HAILSTONES. (Reed 5.15 a.m.) ROTTERDAM, December 3. German wounded from Ghent say ti?at the Allies’ guns do not give a moment’s rest in Flanders. The roads, owing to frost, are almost impassable. Great discomfort prevails in the trenches as shells pour in likfe hailstones, and we are outfought and outranged in artillery. The Germans are making great, efforts to drain the Yser trenches.

OFFICIAL REPORT. B'OMBARDMENT IN THE WEST. LONDON, December 3. Sir John French reports that during the past four days there has been a successful bombardment of the enemy’s trenches, strong points and gun positions were carried, the damage to the enemy being considerable. The German artillery reply was weak. On Tuesday twenty British aeroplanes bombed an important. German supply depot at Miraumont, causing considerable damage to stores,, buildings and railway. Two aeroplanes reconnoitring yesterday and to-day did not return. GERMAN IN THE WAR OFFICE. A (NEWSPAPER OUTCRY. tßepd 8.15 a.m.) LONDON, December S. 1 Newspapers are crying out against Mr Tennant’s admission in the Commons that Mrs Saville, who is of German birth, ami wife of the rector of an East Coast parish, .is employed in the War Office. The lady is cousin to General Bolhner, German commander on the Strypa. U i s also reported -that Von Tirpitz’s son v-:a,-r her guest prior to the war.

GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK. OFF THE SPANISH COAST. 1 (Reed. 10.50 a.m.) MADRID, December 3. I Spanish newspapers ,'glve prominence to a rumour that batteries at Europe Point, sank a German submarine while traversing through the ; Straits. . GERMAN VESSELS SEIZED. IN ITALIAN PORTS. (Reed 8.15 a.m.) LONDON. December 3. “Fairplay” states that Italy’s seizure of German vessels in her ports brings the total seized, all of HamburgAmerican and Hansaeduttehe-Austra-lishe line?, to 103. the aggregate tonnage being 542,583. FOUND GUILTY. GERMAN CONSPIRATORS IN AMERICA. (Reed. 8.J15 a.m.) NEW YORK, December ?. The Federal District Court found three high officials aiicl a subordinate officer of the Hambnrg-American b’ne guilty of having violated the laws of the United States by supplying German cruisers in the South Atlantic with coal and other supplies early in the wp. r. The ini-v returned a verdict, of guilty on epop of two indictments on specific charges of ownsnirgov to deceive and defraud the United States. The maximum penalty in each indictirfirP is two years and a. fine of ten dollars. ono and senfence was not imposed. The judge, torn pwpv. v t ’]l hear a formal motion +i ie Defence Act, to set aside the verdict.

A TURKISH REPORT. A FIERCE BOMB 1 FIGHT. ARTILLERY AND AEROPLANE ACTION. (Reed. 10.50 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, December 3. A Turkish communique states that fierce bomb fighting occurred at some points on the Dardanelles front. Two enemy armoured cruisers near Anafarta and two near Ariburna and Sed-dul-Bahr supported the fire of batteries. Our artillery replied, damaging trenches and destroying maebin 3 gens. Positions at Anafarta and seme bomb throwers’ positions at Ariburna suffered from our aritllery’s terrible fire. A cruiser off Seddul Bahr was forced to retreat. An aeroplane bombed an enemy torpedoer. which is stranded on the Northern Shore of the Gulf of Saros. BELGIUM’S SAD STATE. THE GERMAN BLIGHT. LONDON, Dec. 3. The Times’ correspondent in Amsterdam says postal connection with Belgium is difficult, owing to delays and the Germans’ restrictions on traffic between Belgium and Holland, on the ground of communications with the enemy’s front. Passenger traffic is diminishing daily. Passes are sparingly granted. The tension in Belgum is increasing as the Germans’ actions are growing more numerous. HAMBURG-AMERICAN CONSPIRACY. B'OYED’S RECALL DEMANDED. i (Reed. 10.50 a.m.) WASHINGTON, December 3. Secretary Lansing informed Count Bernstorff that Boyed is persona non grata at Washington, because of his connection with the Hamba .'gAirerican case. It is understood that Boyed’s recall has been demanded. THE AUSTRIAN SENSATION. KAISER’S VISIT EXPLAINED. •: PARIS, Doc. 3.

The Echo -de lavris V> Rome correspondent states that a sensational version of the, Kaiser’s .visit to the Emperor Franz Josef was that it \vs due to hitter , Austro-Germau dissensions regarding the question of boland. .arousing conflicts and complications' similar to those which led to the war in IS6(‘. HARMONY RESTORED. PARIS, Dec. 3. Zurich reports that harmony lias Peon restored. The visit will probably be followed by a. theatrical display ny the entry of Oomactmpplc.

GERMANS WANT PEACE. APPEAL TO CHANCELLOR. * COPENHAGEN, Dec. 3. Iho \ ossische Zoitnng savs; Everybody in Germany desires peace. TicChancellor will surely not miss the opoprtunity of givi ng an assurance thereon. GERMAN FINANCES BAD. COINAGE DEPRECIATION. LONDON, Dec. 3. The Times ’ correspondent in New York states that international bankers attribute the depreciation in the German mark to the ex'cesss of imports, also to the report that Germany is preparing to float a new war loan of five millions sterling. It.is pointed out that Germany has novo practically a paper basis. GERMANY ALWAYS WANTED PEACE. A GERMAN NEWSPAPER’S STATEMENT. FUTURE NOT REASSURING. (Reed 8.15 a.m.) BERLIN, December 3. The “Lokal Anzeiger” says the Reichstag rejoices in the present military situation. Unfortunately, it adds. Ave are not reassured rega-ling He future. Considering the number of bar enemies our Government was always ready to make peace, but our oneai'es prefer to double their forces in order to vanquish the German Emp.-y a.ul they refuse to confer with our emissaries in neutral countries.

NO ENTHUSIASM IN GERMANY. A PHILOSOPHER’S REMARKS. (Reed 8.15 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, December 3. Dr. Lindhoek, the well-known philosopher, writes that there is no longer any enthusiasm or public spirit in Germany. Few people attend theatres and even the German war songs are spiritless. The reason is that nine hundred thousand, young men have been killed, many wounded and blind. The German debt, is growing and industries are greatly reduced, despite German victories. GERMANY FEELING THE STRAIN COMPANIES IN BAD WAY. LONDON. Dec. 3. The Berliner -Tagleblatt has published an interesting survey of the limited company, which reveals the fact that many of the factories are turning out machinery without, rov. ing dividends. With the except ion of three the electricity end ges "-vn; ;•;> les have reduced their dividends Shinning companies end hotels ranking no profit. Cement and elkab factories are losing heavily. ,3 n< l t’-f textile industry has been hard hit.