PEACE MOVEMENT.

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

PEACE MOVEMENT.

ALLIED PEACE TERMS. • GERMAN INTERPRETATION. COPENHAGEN, July 29| Dr. Michaelis summoned a party of journalists to Berlin in order to reply to Mr. Lloyd George’s recent speech. He declared that it was evident that Britain did not want peace by agreement, but. was resolved on Germany’s enslavement. He asserted that reports of eyewitnesses at the secret sittings of the French Chamber on June 1 and 2 showed that M. Briand, ex-PTemier, and M. Ribot, Premier, were forced to confess that shortly before the revolution in Russia Prance negotiated with the Czar’s Government an agreement providing for annexation by France of the Saar Basin as well as Alsace Lorraine and other vast territorial changes on the left bank of the Rhine, as well as the French annexation of Syria. M. B’rland declared that whatever the opinion of the .Russian masses Russia was bound to carry out her treaty. Dr. Michaelis challenged French Ministers to deny his story, and declared that all this was done with Britain’s approval.

ENEMY'S PEACE TERMS,

“UNITED TO CRUSH ALLIES.”

COPENHAGEN, July 29

Count von Czernin, Austrian Foreign Minister, interviewed in Vienna, claimed complete agreement between Berlin and Vienna regarding peace terms, which must be honourable. “The Entente would nev6r crush us,” he continued. “We are united to crush them. The war will end in peace by understanding, hence further sacrifices are useless. All States must unite to make it impossible for a future world war to be begun. BRITISH .PACIFIST MOVEMENT. LONDON, July 29. The Soldiers ’ and Workmen’s committee’s pacifist movement is receiving scant encouragement from Labour unions > The public are united against them. Recognised Labour leaders are also opposed, only Messrs. Anderson, M.P., and Snowden M.P., and a handful of pacifists supporting the movement.

Seventy wounded people were treated after Saturday’s fracas in London. A meeting at Swansea was broken up and the pacifists chased and compelled to surrender their weapons of offence. IN GERMANY. BERNE, July 30. Switzerland has decided to make Germany a substantial loan, as the only means of securing coal, which is becoming scarcer in Germany. BRITISH FOOD PROBLEM TRADE UNIONS’ DEMANDS.

LONDON, July 29

The Trades Union and Co-operative Societies demonstrated in Hyde Park and demanded that the Government purchase all imported foodstuffs, commandeer all home-grown and sell at a fair price to rich and poor alike. It was urged that the quarter loaf be fixed at sixpence.

STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE. Received 10 a.ra. PARIS, July 30. A meeting of Sritis-h, French, and Russian Socialists have agreed to invite all minorities adhering to the International Socialists to attend the conference at Stockholm,