A SERIOUS STRUGGLE.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 January 1918, Page 5

A SERIOUS STRUGGLE.

LONDON, Jan 8.

The Daily Telegraph’s Rotterdam correspondent confirms the seriousness of the struggle between the PanGermans and the Social Democrats, and other moderate parties The PanGermans threaten very grave couse quences if Ku-hlmann is permitted to retain office. His attitude at Brest ijilovsk is regarded as a menace to the annexationists’ policy. The majerily block in the Reichstag has h;o----ken up. Parties constituting the Majority refuse to adhere to the rtsolution of July 19 for a “no annexations and ao indemnity’' peace. The decision of the Russian delegates to resume negotiations has somewhat calmed the moderates’ anxiety. The Majority Socialists are sending an ultimatum

BRITAIN’S PEACE TERMS

ENEMY AND ALLIES SECRETLY NEGOTIATING.

LONDON, Jan 8,

The Daily Chronio’s’s flap a ran da correspondent says it ;s announced in Petrograd that Eng .and has fixed her peace terms, which will be publishea in a few days. it L reported that England is ready to conclude peace on condition ihat she retains the right to continue the blockade of the Central Powers until peace is concluded and the German Army demohiPsod. It is understood that the AustroGerman delegates at Brest Litovsk disclosed facts showing that the Central Powers and the Allies wore secretly negotiating. The Ger nans told the Russians that, the Allies proposed after peace that the Germans should take over the economic domination of Russia.

THE AUSTRO-GERMAN PEACE OFFER.

WHAT AUSTRIANS EXPECT

ROME, January 7

Count Czernin, iterviewed at Vienna before leaving for Brest Lit-' ovsk, indicated that Austria expects, as a result of the negotiations, that the map of Europe will be completely changed in the Austrians’ favour. There will be no any frontier between the Russian and Austrian monarchy. From Bukovina to Silesia new political states will be created, Ukrania and Poland will be independent. They may join the Austrian monarchy, but one thing is certain; they will ' remove the borders of Russia for hundreds of miles.

HEALING THE SPLIT.

PAN-GERMANS IN ASCENDANT Received 11.45. LONDON, January S. The Morning Post’s Amsterdam correspondent states that Hertling has summoned the party leaders, who have expressed anxiety at the gravity of the internal situation. Hertling talked them over, avoiding the threatened split in the Reichstag majority, Thus the military annexationist influence is not removed from the negotiations.

The Berliner Tageblatt says the Germans’ next move will be to suggest that the governing bodies in the occupied territories should first be f o decide whether they thi themselves respresentative of the people’s will. If not, they will then be allowed to widen the basis of their "onstitution.