PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 January 1918, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

HUNGARIAN SOCIALISTS’ RESOLVE. OPPOSE SEPARATE PEACE. LONDON, Jan 1. The United Press Stockholm correspondent cables that Hungarian Socialists pulsed resolutions opposing separate peace, and approving of an international conference. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF. OWING TO GERMANY’S ATTITUDE Received 10 a.m. LONDON, Jan 2. The Daily News’ Petrograd correspondent states that peace negotiations have been broken off owing to Germany’s attitude in regard to Poland and Lithuania. ALLIES’ SILENCE CONDEMNED. PARIS, January 1. Owijjg to M. Clemenceau’s refusal to passports to Petrograd, M. Redaut*el, on behalf of the unified Socialist group in the Chamber, read a declaration that the silence of all Allied Governments concerning general principles essential to a lasting peace places the Allies in a position of moral inferiority which is prejudical to their cause. His-group henceforth will vote for war, credits, but will not support diplomatic conduct of the war. A RIFT IN THE LUTE. HUNS PRESUME OF RUSSIA’S ISOLATION. RUSSIANS JEER AT GERMANY’S PROPOSALS. CONFERENCE BROKEN OFF. RUSSIANS REINFORCING THEIR FRONT. Received noon.) LONDON, January 2. The Daily News correspondent states that Representatives of the Central Powers, presuming on Russia’s isolation, claimed Poland, Lithuania and Courland. They had already defined their position but as Ukraine, would not negotiations, Germany demanded the retention of garrisons at Riga, Libau, and other strategic points The Russian delegates were uncompromising and declared the self-defin-ition was impossible until the last German soldier had left the country. They jeered at the Germans, asking whether they proposed to take Petrograd, and feed three million starving folk; disarm the country where every workman carried a rifle; also what the Germans proposed to toll their own democracy, which opposed annexations. The Germans requested time to consider. The Russians refused and left Brest Litovsk. A considerable number of Red Guards, have been sent to reinforce the front. Other defence preparations are .in progress.