PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 5 October 1917, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

THE BASIS OF FUTURE PEACE. AN 'AUSTRIAN OPINION. Recieved 10.20. AMSTERDAM, October 4 „Count Czernim in a speech at Budapest, advocated an international basis of right ensuring that no war revenge bo possible in the future. The military burden after the war would be almost unbearable for all European States.. They must go further than a return to pre-war armaments, and must eventually reach total disarmament. Gigantic fleets would be unnecessary if the nations combine to guarantee liberty of the seas. The first principles of which must be fixed at the conclusion of peace arc compulsory arbitration, general disarmament, liberty on the high seas, with special rules for narrow waters. If these principles are fixed the need of territorial securities will be automatically abolished. Another principle is needed, namely, the economic co-operation of all nations and an absolute avoidance of economic war. “We must, added Czernim, "before concluding peace have a positive assurance that our adversaries have abandoned ideas of economic war. I disagree with Lloyd George on most points, but agree there must not be any more wars of revenge." Czernim asked whether the Entente proposed to indemnity the damage in Central Powers’ territories and the German colonies. He concluded: "Nobody should imagine our present moderate peace programme will hold good for ever. "If our enemies compel us to continue the war we will be obliged to revive our programme. I confess I am not optimistic about the Entente’s readiness to conclude peace on the basis I have just outlined.’’

THE ALLIES’ TASK. NO TIME TO TALK PEACE. SPEECH BY MR CHURCHILL. LONDON, October 3. Mr. Churchill, speaking at the Aldwych Club, said this was not a time to talk of peace. We were entering the sternest phase of the war. We were still confronted by the system which had trampled Belgium and Serbia, levied war on women and | children and stored the bacilli of pestilence in the capitals of friendly states. If Germany was saved from defeat she would be able to persuade her people to uphold the Kaiser junker class while she approached the Entente with the claim “Let us be friends” and cultivate diplomatic and commercial relations. Four devastating campaigns had proved that we must not accept this, solution. If the Germans were decisively beaten they would lose faith in the present governing system and realise that they were squandering their Bismarckian inheritance. If the German people, by an effort of self-redemption, seized control of their own Government and became a grown-up nation like other emancipated then there would be real peace in the world, not a war thinly veneered by diplomatic platitudes. The second great submarine campaign had been checked and our reserves of food- and the capacity for producing necessaries had been greatly augmented during the twentythree weeks of the present offensive. The armies next year would be' stronger and better supplied. The tonnage of shells last week hurled into the German trenches were fourfold that fired in the Somme offensive. It was Britain’s duty to maintain the offensive until the American reinforcements were thrown into the war. ANOTHER PAPAL NOTE. AUSTRO-GERMAN OFFER. ROME, October 3 The Vatican newspapers authoritatively state that the Pope has sent a now Note to the Entente Government explaining that the Austro-German Governments conferred with the nuncios of Vienna and Munich declared their readiness to evacuate Belgium and France and make a concession to Italy. The Pope asks the Entente if they are desirous of ascertaining the conditions of the evacuation. ENTENTE ASKED TO REPLY. Received 11.15. ROME, October 4. The Giornale d’ltalia declares the Pope has transmitted the official text of . the Central Powers’ Note to the Entente, and added a second Note, saying Germany is disposed to evacuate Belgium and Northern France, and asks of thp Entente desires to reply. It is holievrd Ihe next communication from tae Central Powers will afford a cone -el 5 offer.