PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 30 July 1917, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

NEW PAPAL PEACE PROPOSAL. Received 11.20. LONDON, July 29.' The Catholic organ "Die Reisehpost" states that on the third anniversary of the war the Pope will issue a new peace proposal. GERMANS STILL HOPE FOR PEACE. ERZEBERGER WANTS TO SEE LLOYD GEORGE AND BALFOUR. Received 11.20. LONDON, July 29. The Daily Chronicle's Zurich correspondent says Herr Erzeberger has arrived, and in an interview with the Catholic paper "Nanrichten" at Zurich, denied what Dr. Michaelis is staled to have said in the Reichstag. He regarded Dr. Michaelis' mission as peaceful, and his appointment will strengthen the Reichstag peace resolution. Erzeberger said: "Every effort must be made to avoid" a winter campaign. Thank God there is still a basis for an understanding with England whereon a general lasting peace must rest." He concluded that if he could meet Lloyd George or Mr. Balfour, it was probable that after a few hours' conversation sufficient progress would be made to enable official negotiations to begin. GREECE. ALLIES HAND OVER OCCUPIED TERRITORY.PARIS, July 2S. The Allied Balkan Conference resolved to terminate at the earliest moment simultaneously the Anglo-Italian occupation of old Greece, Thessaly and Epirus, while maintaining the occupation provisionally of the triangle formed by the Sauti-Guarante road and the Epirus frontier under an Italo-Greek understanding. Italy, France and Britain will makea base at Corfu during the war, recognising Greek sovereignty. THE ALLIES' AIMS. GREECE TO ASSIST. PARIS, July 28. . At the last sitting of the Balkan Conference it was declared that the Allies were more closely bound than ever in defence of the rights of peoples particularly in the Balkans. It was resolved that the Allies would down arms only when their aim had been accomplished, making impossible a recurrence of the criminal aggression for which the Central Powers were responsible. M 4 Passitch, interviewed, said the alliance with Greece was about to revive stronger than ever under Venizelos's energetic guidance, thereby strengthening the hopes of early repatriation