PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 16 April 1917, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

BULGARIANS WANT PEACE.

OVERTURES BELIEVED TO BE GENUINE.

WASHINGTON, April 14

Officials believe that the Bulgarian overtures for peace are genuine, though informal, being designed to act as feelers for the Central Powers. Allied diplomats think that if Bulgaria agrees to separate peace, Turkey will follow suit.

Bolivia has broken off] relations with Germany.

SOCIALISTS AND PEACE

PETROGRAD, April 14,

A Franco-Britisli Socialist deputation, conveying the democratic party’s fraternal greetings, has arrived. The Britishers include Messrs Thorne O'Grady and Bowernian, M’s.P.

BRITISH FOOD PROBLEM

THE NECESSITY FOR ECONOMY. EVERYONE HIS OWN POOD CON TROLLER. 1 . * ■ THE END BY SEPTEMBER Received 9.35 LONDON, April 35. Mr Kennedy Jones states that it will be necessary to save every crumb of broad. Persons throwing away crusts and housewives neglecting rigid supervisions of household rati 15s are helping the enemy. Everybody should become his own food controller, eating a pound less of broad w'eeldy than before the war. It is officially calculated that this' will provide a margin •. of safety of bread supplies despite the continuation of torpedoings, and enable the nation to carry till the new harvest. The nation should feel on its honour to reduce the consumption of bread, which, if not reduced, would speedily become compulsory, and rationing would be introduced. He believed our armies would compel the Kaiser to throw up the sponge by September.

BRITAIN’S FOODSTUFFS STILL DECLINING.

LONDON, April 15,

The Eight Hon. Sir Ailwyn Follo'.ves, addressing agriculturists in London, said that as a result of submarinings, the stock of foodstuffs would possibly be lower than when Mr Lloyd George issued his warning. The situation might grow worse when the longer days and better weather conditions assisted submarines. He appealed to farmers to exert their utmost efforts.

SALVATION ARMY TO THE FORE

LONDON, April 15

Tlio Salvation Army is feeding 17,000 in London daily at eight communal kitchens, and are establishing others. Dinners cost upwards of threepence. GERMAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS MEN OF FROM 47 TO 60 TO BE CALLED UP. Received 8.55. AMSTERDAM, April 15. German advices show that all men in the Rhine provinces between the ages of 47 and 60 are to be called up for civil employment.

CHINA AND GERMANY.

POLITICIANS’ ATTITUDE

Received 8.55

PEKING, April 15

A conference of provincial military governors meet on Monday to decide China’s attitude in the war. Parliament favours joining the United States, while Cabinet and military leaders favour the Entente.

AFFAIRS

t LiwMBER PROROGUES INDIT FINITELY

BERNE, April 15

A v uloss states that the Hungarian Chum be i has prorogued indc-f iiUt-Uy. Opj.usiPuiists threw mku.ands and books at Cabinet mc-mbo •;> ami there were sjv rt.l scenes on the .if the House.

Pam:: L raging in •i■ p. rl.-m i Ga .cia oi copied by the Austrians. An epid rate called hunger tyoi. is h r-.gh g There R terrible mortalitv. Into morto are carried out at night and mourning is prohibited.

WAR NOTES

CAPTURED GUNS TURNED ON

THE ENEMY

LONDON, April 13

Mr. Pmlip Gibbs, the Daily Chronicle’s correspondent on the Western front, gives prominence to South Africa’s share of Monday s fight. The colonels charged aheatT of their men and captured the first line without casualty. Afterwards the South Africans fought wicked machine-gun fire. They gathered in hundreds of prisoners and many guns, including bin howitzers and a vast haul of ammunition. They reversed the guns upon the enemy. It was a triumph for the South Africans, giving them their revenge for the

tragic episodes of Delville Wood,

THE HOSPITAL SHIPS. FIFTY-TWO MISSING FROM SALTA LONDON, April 13. The Admiralty reports that the hospital ship Gloucester Castle was torpedoed without warning in mid-Chan-nel, on the night of March 30. All the wounded were saved.

A Berlin official message of Wednesday proclaims that the vessel was submarined, thus removing all doubt in the matter.

The Admiralty states that the hospital ship Salta was mined and sunk in bad weather in the Channel on Tuesday. No wounded were aboard, but five medical officers, nine nursing sisters, and 38 members of the R.A. M.C. are missing. A STORMY SCENE IN HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT. COPENHAGEN, April 13. The Hungarian Parlaiment was prorogued in disorder yesterday. The Opposition stormily demanded direct suffrage, and prevented the President opening the proceedings. The President thrice suspended the sittings, and thereupon Count Tisza, the Premier, read a Royal rescript proroguing the House. A, violent scene followed.

MAIL-CLAD SOLDIERS. CURTAIN FROM THE HELMET. LONDON, April 13. A London newspaper states that a curtain of chain mail has been invented to hang from the steel helmet to protect soldier’s faces. Some have already been issued to the troops. AMERICAN SHIP SUNK. CREW TWO DAYS IN B’OAT. WASHINGTON, April 13. The American ship Margarite was torpedoed in the Mediterranean without warning. The crew were in an open boat for 49 hours.

AMERICA’S ENTRY,

A DEDICATORY SERVICE,

LONDON, April 13

Americans in London hold a dedicatory service at St. Paul’s on Saturday, April 20, to commemorate the entry into the war. The King and Queen, Mr. W. H. Page, the American Ambassador to Britain, -members of Cabinet, and overseas delegates, will attend. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Davidson, and the Bishop of London, Dr. F. Wilmington Ingram, participate. The Bishop of the Philippines will probably preach the sermon.