PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 November 1916, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

... RUMORS AND DENIALS. /RESIDENT WILSON'S ATTITUDE. jBELLIGERENTS MUST BE FAVOR- " i ABLE. • Received Nov. 21, 1.30 a.m. . ' New York, Nov. 20. The New York Times states that ir. Jerluj there is much peace talk. Germany has the idea that some step by rrsudent Wilson would not be unattractive to the Catholic Party, who hold •the balance of power. Socialist leaders -ire conducting a campaign to secure an immediate peace without annexation. Herr von Weigand states that Vienna is stirred by the report that President ;V/ilson contemplates inviting representatives of the belligerents to a preliminary peace conference at Washington. The 'Austrian press and public rejoice at the :prospect, but the officials are sceptical, towing to the absence of confirmation of <th<- report. ; The New York Herald says that iOfiiciala in Washington deny the peace ilßove rumor, President Wilson's atti;ture being that any action would be iilitimed until the belligerents indicate jthat such a step would be welcome, i The New- York Times has commenced ,a series of articles by a publicist, whose and authority would be reicognised in both hemispheres, suggesting that the time has arrived to consider whether the war may not shortly 'be ended by an international agreement wherein the United States participates.