PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 11 August 1917, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

BRITISH LABOUR AND PEACE. SUGGESTED BASIS OF PROGRAMME. LONDON, August 10. The committee of the Labour executive has issued a report suggesting a" basis for the British Labour Party's peace views. The report is to be presented at Friday's conference, discussed at a special conference in London on August 21st, and finally submitted to the Allied Labour and Socialist Conferences. ~. The report welcomes the Russian declaration against annexations and indemnities and urges further democratisation of all countries as a means of preventing future war. It declared that peace conditions should foremostly include reparation to Belgium, payment for all damage and complete restoration and independence; also the restoration of Serbia and Montenegro, and the solving of the Balkan question by means of an international commission on the basis of free national choice, plus a Balkan federation; also the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine. Peace terms should include satisfaction for Italy's legitimate interests in the Adriatic and Aegean; the liberation of Palestine; the administration of 'Armenia, Mesopotamia and Arabia; also tropical Africa by a commission representing a League of Nations; the application to all other disputed cases (including Luxemburg and Poland) of the principle of free national choice.

The report denounces economic war after the war by tariffs or otherwise, considering that the alliance of military imperialists and fiscal protectionists in any country is a grave menace to peace, but the right of each nation to defend its ecoapmie interests cannot be denied. Guilty governments and individuals should be punished for culpable acts, notably inhuman submarine warfare. ROUMA N I A. ROUMANIANS IN JEOPARDY. MACKENSEN'S DANGEROUS THRUST. LONDON, August 10. Attention is drawn to the seriousness of Mackensen 's attack north of Focsani, owing to the strategic importance of this locality. The advance threatens the essential loop railway line connecting Roumania 's main rail system with the system serving the Roumanian army in the Upper Putna and Susitza valleys. If the link line is out this army will be in jeopardy. NORWAY SERIOUS CONDITION IN NORWAY Received 10.5 CHRISTIANIA, August 10 A wireless says the newspaper Stiftst Tdende calculates that unless exports from America are forthcoming Norway will be in a conditon of famine by the end of the year. They have now only four months' coal supply available