PEACE OVERTURES.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 23 January 1917, Page 5

PEACE OVERTURES.

THE ACADEMIC POLITICIAN. Received 10.50. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. Wilson added that the United States must be willing- to join other nations in a guarantee of peace and justice throughout the -world. All nations must have a direct outlet on the great highway of the sea. Wilson summed up th idea as the extension of the Monroe Doctrine to the "whole world. He advocated an avoidance of entangling alliances which drove the nation into competition for power. Wilson declares the peace that must come in Europe must be a peace without victory or victors or terms imposed on the vanquished. A LEAGUE OF PEACE. Received 8.50. WASHINGTON, Jan 22. President, Wilson, addressing the Senate, advocated a League of Peace after the war, founded on equality of rights, based on an independent united autonomous plan, full freedom of development amongst small nations, freedom of the seas, limitation of armaments, neither recognising nor implying differences between small and great, nations. THE CZAR’S RESCRIPT. TIDE OF WAR TURNED. PARIS. Jan 21. The Czar’s rescript says that the tide of the great war has turned. Al! of Russia’s thoughts are with the valiant' armies which wait the decisive encounter. The Allies will entertain no thoughts of peace until final victory is achieved.