PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 31 May 1917, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

GERMAN SOCIALISTS’ OPINIONS. Received 11.45 sa.m. COPENHAGEN, May 30. u The majority of the German Socialists delegates, including Herr Schneidemann, have arrived on route to Stockholm. The minority of the delegates have not arrived. Asked when peace will come, the delegates replied: "When the belligerents follow Russia’s ex--ample. Germany is ready for peace without annexations." One added that the separation of Alsace and Lorraine was impossible owing to their intimate industrial connections with Germany. Though Germany was hard up for food the prospects of the harvest were splendid. v PEACE VERY REMOTE. Received 11.45 a.m. ZURICH, May 30. "Wur" states the Mazenee branch of the Pan German League passed a resolution that peace must not be concluded till Britain was conquered and the Kaiser annexed the whole British Empire.

BRITISH POLITICS THE WAR CABINET. i MR. BARNES TO JOIN. LONDON, May 29. Official. —Mr. JB'arnes has been invited to join the War Cabinet during Mr. Henderson’s absence on an important mission to Russia. Mr. Henderson has gone to Russia to . assist the Provincial Government in ease of emergency. LORD DEVONPORT RESIGNING Received 8.40 a.m. LONDON, May 30. Renewed reports are current that Lord Devonport is resigning owing to ,ili health, and is regarded in some quarters as a foregone conlusion. A Labour member succeeds him. Lord Devonport has held the position of Food Controller since Mr. Lloyd George formed his Cabinet, and was the first, man to seriously grapple with Britain's food problem. BRITISH FOOD PROBLEM THE PRICE OP CHEESE. LONDON, May 29. Lord Devonport has taken .over all imports of United States, Canada, Amsterdam, and New Zealand cheese and fixed the retail price at 16d. Following the usual course. Lord Devonport will take over consignments of cheese from the original consignees. He will fix the prices later and cancel contracts by the original consignees. ' § MEAT FROM TUBERCULAR BEASTS. LONDON, May 30. The Scottish Local Government Board is permitting the sale of meat from beasts suffering from tuberculosis if properly sterilised. The English Government Board is considering the question. \ FOOD PRICES. j LABOUR PROTESTS, LONDON, May 29. Increases in the prices of food have intensified the general dissatisfaction and are likely to result in strong Labour protsts against profit-making.'