PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 September 1917, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

ENGLAND STILL UNCONQUERED. A HUN’S SENSATIONAL Ui’IER- , ANCE A WAY TO PEACE WANTED. LONDON, September 18 The Daily Chronicle’s Zurich correspondent says that Herr Erzeberger, in a speech to his constituents, said that the practical effect of the submarines on England was not noticeable. England remained unconquered. Before voting a new war loan the Reichstag should consider a way to shorten the war. A fourth year would cost 2500 million sterling, w r hile on an average 1250 would be killed daily. The world’s harvest was bad generally and the shortage of coal ? fat, and leather would cause greater hardships in the coming winter than was experienced in the pasr three together. We cannot have peace dependant on might and oppression; THE POPE'S PEACE PROPOSAL. PAN-GERMANS DISAPPOINTED LONDON, Sept 17. Herr Erzeberger continued:—Germany’s answer to the Pope greatly disappointed Pan-Germans. It would be a big stride towards world peace if it w'ere based on the Reichstag’s resolution, cabled on the 16th of July, the basic conditions of which would be that not one nation must be subdued by another. WHO IS ERZEBERGER? A London paper thus describes Herr Matthias Erzeberger: A Roman Catholic Centre Party deputy, long time stormy petrel of German politics; 41 years old, Wurtemburger, journalist, flamboyant orator and writer; incessantly used during 14 years in the Reichstag as a Government wire puller among the Empire's 25,000,000 Roman Catholics. During the war he has been on various un derground missions to Vienna and Switzerland and active as an intriguer with the Vatican. Flattered when called the “German Winston Churchill”; he talks with a South German brogue and poses as an authority on international politics because he was delegate to the Arbitration Congress in Zurich.

VATICIAN’S LAST PEACE EFFORT.

THE POPE’S EFFORT IGNORED. MORE HUN PROPOSALS EXPECTED Received 11.25 Sept 19. The United Press states, according to cables from Rome, the Pope has made his last peace proffer, believing that war must continue for two or three years; the full effect of the United States’ power must be felt. Vatican circles are hinting that the Allies have agreed to ignore the efforts of the Pope, and that the Church will not be permitted to participate in ultimate negotiations. Diplomatists expect that Germany will initiate another peace move before winter. AN OLD MYSTERY BEING UNRAVELLED September 19. A court martial has opened in connection with the blowing up of a dynamite factory at Cangio in February, 1916, with a terrible death roll, and a series of vast, incendiary outbreaks in Genoa in December, 1915, and Febmajor Renotti, his wife, father in law and four others. The defendants are also charged with giving information to the Austrians. The trial is proceeding with closed doors.