PEACE OVERTURES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 18 January 1917, Page 5

PEACE OVERTURES.

BERNSTORFF'S PROFITS

RUMOURED AT TWO MILLIONS.

NEW YORK, Jan 1G

Count Bernstorff refuses to "dignify by serious detail" Lawson's testimony at the Congressional inquiry. It is rumoured that Count Bernstorff made 2,000,000d0l in speculating on advance information about Mr. Wilson's Note. Count Bernstorff says: "I do not believe I made it. I refuse to take such charges seriously or to believe that the public will take them seriously."

BALFOUR’S SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE. THREE CONDITIONS ESSENTIAL. Received 10.20. NEW YORK, Jan. 17. Mr Balfour, in a supplementary note to President Wilson, states that Britain is prepared for unparalleled sacrifice, because a durable peace is impossible except on the basis of the Allies’ victory. He points out that if Germany regards existing treaties as scraps of paper, fresh treaties are useless. Turkey must'be driven out of I-Jurope, because she was guilty of unprecedented atrocities and was being used by Germany as an instrument of conquest. Three conditions are necessary for peace—first, the removal of existing causes of international unrest; second, recognition by the people of the Central Powers of the unscrupulous ness of German methods and the aggressiveness of German aims; third, the establishment of an international authority to prevent the breach of treaties.