PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1915, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

OVERTURES AN INVENTION. A CJ2RMAN PAPER SAYS. Received August 13, 7.5 p.m. Amsterdam, August 12. The North German Gazette states that the reported peace overtures to Russia arc an invention. The time to make proposals for peace can only come when the enemy acknowledges failure.

NEW GERMAN LOAN. ■SOCIALISTS ARRESTED. Received August 13, 10.50 p.m. Amsterdam, August 13. The Vorwaerts says that a number of Berlin Socialists have been arrested, on suspicion of high treason, for publishing a pamphlet severely criticising the attitude of leeding Socialists. .A Bill, asking for a new credit of five hundred million sterling, has passed the German Federal Council.

GERMAN AGITATION. PROPAGANDA IN AMERICA. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, August 12. The Times' correspondent in Paris says that from all sides come reports of increased pacific action in neutral States by pacifist and internationalist bodies. The French people simply turn a deaf ear. The Times' correspondent in 'Washington snvp* the Gorman pcat'o talk is not particularly successful, except in obvious quarter-. The Hearst journals publish a flamboyant artile advocating neutral mediation. The Stalls Zeitung says that Germany does not desire eonquest. The Anglophobe Washington Post swallows the German bait, hut the responsible press scouts the idea of a premature peace and gives cogent reasons why a separate peace is unthinkable. IRISH LEADER'S VIEWS. Received August 13, 7.5 p.m. London. August 13. Mr. J. Redmond says that lie would not be justified in asking the Government to enter peace negotiations, while the German aggressors have not shown a disposition to repair the wrongs inflicted on Belgium and the other Allies.