PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 January 1918, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

GERMAN SOCIALISTS UP IN ARMS AT GERMANY’S PEACE AIMS. NATIONAL LIBERALS UNEASY. Received 10.45 # 1 AMSTERDAM* Jan 3. Kuhlmann left Berlin for Brest Lltovsk. The Social Democrats have presented a demand that the President of the Reichstag immediately summon the Reichstag to discuss the foreign policy in view of the Brest Litovsk negotiations. The Socialists are irfdignant at, Kuhlmann’s intention to indirectly ' annex Russian territory. Details of negotiations at Brest' Litovsk also produced great uneasiness among the National Liberals, especially merchants. The Hamburg branch of the party has adopted a resolution ' condemning a peace which will not J ensure consolidation of Germany s position overseas and adequate war indemnity.

. LABOUR REPRESENTATIVES’ . ’ REPORT. MINIMUM WAGES AND WORKING HOURS. LEAGUE OF NATIONS ADVOCATED. % THE APPROACHING- UTOPIA. Received 11*30, LONDON, January 3. The Labour Reconstruction Report includes a minimum wage of 30s for a forty-eight- hours week; a capital levy vpay off 'the--; national debt outlay . 300,000,000; a million new ■ -cottages; progressive elimination of private capital, the- state to be heir to all private riches bxocpt qnite-.a moderate amount for the family; a protective tariff, tfffid "home rule throughout the empire. Mr Henderson, in a message to Labour, demands a League of Nations, as a first step in the direction of creating a League of Peoples. The ultimate guarantee of peace lies in the repudiation of Imperialistic policies by all the peoples. The creation of a league would be a dramatic declaration that the nations of the world form one family. THE BREAKING DENIED. i ' LONDON, January 2. A Vienna message contradicts the “Daily News” version and declares that negotiations will be resumed on Saturday. The message adds: Russia has now adopted the standpoint that peoples already belonging to a definite state cannot have a right to decide their own destinies because they already possess coni&\titutional means lof gaining that end. It is reported that Russia has informed the Entente of this change of view. Vienna reiterates that in the event of the Entente not joining negotiations will be continued with a view of a separate peace / with Russia.

A SIGNIFICANT GERMAN MOVE. THE GERMAN HAND SHOWN. LONDON, January 3. A significant sidelight on the peace manoeuvres at Brest Litovsk. is antipeace propaganda which, according to the Petit Parisien, the German High Command is conducting in the trenches. A document is being circulated declaring that Shelidmau’s peace, which the German delegates at Brest,Litovsk /accepted, -Would ruin Germany, for whoso future development the possession of Briey and Langwy is the basis, and economic and military control of Belgium, is essential. PETEOGEAD, Jan 3. Leninites have organised a meeting of war prisoners in order to foster revolutionary propaganda, with comic results. Eight hundred prisoners assembled in an evil-smelling circus, and were addressed in eight languages. The Germans maintained stolid silence until the chairman asked some German prisoner to address the meeting. One individual rose and said: "It is time for deeds, not words,’’ and sat down. Others then complained of ill treatment One saying he had to apply for special leave if ho wished to stay out in the evening. The chairman promptly closed the meeting. NEWS OF RUPTURE CONFIRMED. ■— f Received 11.10. COPENHAGEN, Jan 3. The Bolsheviks’ Telegraph Agency at Petrograd confirms the news that peace negotiations have been broken off. Trotsky announces that Russia will not consent to Germany’s terms.

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Received 11.45. PARIS, Jan 3,

The Leipsic Volks Zcitung accuses Kuhlmann of lying and fraud. The Zeitung says that everyone in Germany, Russia, and the Allied countries now knows Germany is not aiming for a just peace, such as Ku-hi-maim depicted on December 25th, but £or an enormous increase of Germans power, which will only strengthen the Allies’ war will. Mr Gerard, late United States Ambasador to Germany, thus writes ot Herr Kuhlmann in the “Daily Telegraph”: — ••Kuhlmann, far more wily than Zimmerman, will continue to strive, to embroil America with Japan and Mexico, but he will not b e caught. Second in command in London, he reported then that England would enter the war. The rumours scattered broadcast as .he took office, to the effect that he was opposed to the ruthless U-boat war, were but evidences of a more skilful hand in the campaign to predispose the world in his favour, and therefore to assist him in any negotiations he might TZve on the carpet. Beware of the wily Kuhlmann.”)