PEACE MOVEMENT.

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

PEACE MOVEMENT.

ASTOUNDING PEACE TERMS. THE KAISER BREAKING DOWN. NO MENTION OF COMPENSATION Received 10.25. YORK Sept 10. A report is circulated among diplomats at Washington purporting to be German peace terms. They are attracting considerable interest as they include the restoration of Belgium, northern France and Serbia. Roumania is to be paid for by the sale of German colonies to Britain. • Alsace-Lorraine are to be independent States. They also include disarmament, and international police, freedom of the seas, with Britain controlling the English Channel until the Dover-Calais tunnel is constructed. It is reported generally that this is regarded as a feeler. THE SWEDISH SENSATION. SWEDEN'S BLACK WORDS. A DISHONOURABLE RECORD. LONDON, September 10. ■ Newspapers express the opinion that the words "Surlos versenkt," meaning "Sunk without trace left," will be remembered as long as Hollweg's "scrap of paper." Count Luxburg's pqlicy explains the firing on boats'- crews, as in the case of the Belgian Prince, and the total disappearance of many neutral vsssels. Sweden will doubtless deny complicity but the dismissal of Swedish representatives abroad will not satisfy" Washington, which has evidence that these envoys were acting in connivance and under orders from the Stockholm authorities. It would be an extreme punishment to throw the whole people into w r ar because of the crimes of their rulers, but the Allies have a potent instrument in the blockade.

AMERICA AND SWEDEN. LONDON, Sept. 10. Eolations between America and Sweden are strained almost to breakingpoint. SWEDEN AND GERMANY. STOCKHOLM, Sept. 10. A banker has offered four million kroner,to establish an. aeroplane route between Sweden and Germany. Aeroplane stations are being established at Stockholm, Malmoe, and Gottcnfcmrg. BRITISH PRESS VIEWS. LONDON, September 10. While taking a most serious view of the Swedish disclosures, newspapers think the Allies are not likely to take extreme steps, though they have every r.ight to treat Sweden as an enemy. The papers urge that the strongest blockade measures be taken against Sweden. ITALIANS CAMPAIGN. AUSTRIANS' APPALLING LOSSES. LONDON, September 10. McClur.eV correspondent, describing the fighting round Gorizia, says the enemy's losses are appalling. The capture of 122 officers during the past two days reveals the extent of the Italian successes. Under the Austrian system, the majority of the officers do not participate in the fighting, but remain in caverns and "funk-holes" at the rear, where they are now being dug Out in batches. After the line had been broken in the Carso fighting, the Austrians were repeatedly broken, suffering very bloody losses, the trenches being filled with long swatches of dead. ..,; >'s\: