PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 24 May 1917, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

SECRET PROPOSALS TURNED DOWN. NEW YORK, May 22. The New York Sun's correspondent says peace proposals were~sceretly made by the Central Powers through neutral diplomats in Switzerland. Representatives pointed out that peace would prevent resort to such desperate measures as the devastation of occupied territories, the death of and the death by starvation of noncombatants whom it was impossible to feed. The Allies unconditionally rejected the proposals, stating that peace was impossible unless it was sought publicly on acceptable terms. The New York Sun's London corresondent questioned a high British authority, who did not admit the accuracy of the story, but said such a move was likely to be made at any time.