PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 October 1917, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

FRANCE'S DEMANDS RETURN OF ALSACE. * PARIS, Oct 26. I. Barthou, the new Foreign Miniv in announcing the Government's sign policy, said that in addition reparation, compensation and guarees, France demanded Alsace-Lor-le, which was really an invaded artment. HOLLAND. ERMAN-DUTCH AGREEMENT. AMSTERDAM, Oct 26. he "Norddeutsche Allgemaine Zeig 'states that an agreement be-j en Holland and Germany operates m to-day. Germany will supply L iron and steel in exchange for Istuffs particularly butter and ese. - ~~ )LLAND AND THE ENTENTES nsrt*-..«v/ LONDON, D~ct 27. > ir TSTalter.; Townley, British :Minisat The Hague, declares that Dutch irns regarding the transit of sand gravel are unreliable. .The ; Brit-, embargo on telegrams to Holland not be abolished till the traffic'is >ped. The British Government has thopght of submitting the dispute irbitration. The statement is also [e that America will not send food Holland until the Entente's deids<are satisfied. : •

"'jOtfSH" AFFAIRS. ; r SINN FEIN PLOT. GERMAN GOLD AND AEMS. " NEW YORK, October 26 "he United States and Canadian ret Service frustrated a second Sinn a rebellion, planned to occur next. ;ter, on the anniversary of last r's bloody Dublin riots. German 1 was scheduled to play a part, and .preliminaries were mapped out dy to put into operation when the ret Service men stepped in and ar;ed "General'' Liam Merle wes, one the leaders of the 1916 outbreak; •on von Reculinghausen, who was larently instructed by Count von •nstorff to watch over Germany's srests in Ireland after Bernstorff ! been ousted from the United States 'he Canadian authorities, acting on jrmatdfln. from Secret Service men, ested T>r. Patrick MeCarton upon his ival at Halifax on a fraudulent seart's passport MeCarton enjoyed the e of " Ambassador'' of the Irish rablic to the United States, t is commonly reported that German nts are busy in Ireland, attempting stir up a second outbreak. German go-carrying submarines landed ma-ne-guns and ammunition on lonely :ts "in the Irish Sea.