PEACE MOVEMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 January 1918, Page 5

PEACE MOVEMENT.

GERMANY’S PEACE TERMS.

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 15

The “Vorwaerts” states that the Pan-Germans are trying to induce the Kaiser to consent to wholesale annexations, both on the East and West fronts, which would involve the immediate resignation of Hertling and Kuhlmann.

PEACE A LONG WAY OFF.

LONDON, January 15

The United Press agency at Rome states that Papal nuncios in Vienna and Berlin have informed the Pope that they can give no encouragement, for peace at present.

ANOTHER ADJOURNMENT,

AMSTERDAM, January 15

Baron von Kuhlmann, German Foreign Minister, at the Brest Litovsk negotiations, adopted ifhe standpoint that portions of Russia striving to obtain separation were already qualified to conclude agreements with Germany. Trotzky replied that the present representative bodies could not prove that they spoke in the name of the entire people of Russia. Kuhlmann and Count van Czernin, the Austrian Foreign Minister, intimated that they were willing to invite representatives of these sections to Brest Litovsk. Trotzky replied that the territories concerned had no democratic representative bodies. The Russian delegates then proposed strong conditions regarding the right of self determination for these peoples. M. Hoffman protested that the Russians spoke as if they were the conquering party. The German army command refused to evacuate Courland, Lithuania and the Riga Islands. The negotiations were adjourned.

TRADE AND LABOUR PARTIES

DICTATE .THE EMPIRE’S PEACE TERMS.

LONDON, Jan 15

The Trade Union Congress and the Labour Party have sent a message to the Russian people stating that by breaking the negotiations Russia risks the suppression of her newly-won freedom. In this crisis the 'British people must speak. They therefore proclaim identical aims' with Russia. They accept no annexations for the British Empire. The message states: “We respect the sovereign independence of the Turkish people in Constantinople, Thrace, and .Anatolia, but the British Government has justifiably pledged itself to the Arabs and Jews. We accept the renunciation of annexation for tropical . Africa, and self-determination for India ’and the dependencies Though the record of the British Government occasions little. reproach, and the application of self-determination will be difficult, our purpose is to eventually raise them to the status of Dominions.”

Received 11.40

LONDON, Jan 16

We adjure the peoples of Central Europe to force their Governments to answer Russia, We ourselves appeal to them to renounce annexations in Europe in the same good faith as we renounce them in Asia, and demand that they give Alsatian, Italian, Polish and Danish members their States on absolute self-determination, as Russia has given to Finland, Courland, Lithuania, and Russian Poland.

WAR LORDS IN THE ASCENDANT.

AMSTERDAM, January 15

Messages from Berlin indicate that the military party have gained the' upper hand.

It is semi-officially announced that there has been no change in the official decisions regarding the Polish

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