PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1916, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

GERMAN IDEAS OF PEACE. fIIEMY MUST BE ANNIHILATED OR CONCILIATED

Amsterdam, Nov. °n. The Westphalian Gazette says: "We must reckon once for all with England and France. The terras of peace wilt be decided by the military situation. We are convinced that the enemy must be annihilated or conciliated. Conciliation on the wast front is impossible. We must fight our way through to the ocean. "We maintain the old Balkan principle, that the conqueror keeps what he has. We need an opening to the British Channel and must have Antwerp. Whoever requires Belgium may take it. We must strengthen the German Empire. We cannot and will not destroy th-j British Empire. The minimum necessary for a German peace is the complete beating down of France and Corman prestige m all the seas..*

- PEACE CAMPAIGN,

POWEBFUL AMERICAN MOVE. I London, Nov. 23. The Times say: the latest Anierican peace campaign is the most influential yet launched. Jacob Uxhiefly, head of the great New York banicing house, Kuhn, Loeb end Company, and James Speyer, brother of Sir Edgar Speyer, arc pulling the strings in common and with their immense political and financial resources are endeavoring to work up ;•.' peace feeling sufficiently great to influence Congress. The Times l .' Washington correspondent' says that, although the active pro-Ger manism behind the movement makes the great bulk of American opinion suspic : - ous, an increasing section of American intellectuals is convinced that the tine has come for peace. The Times, commenting, points ou l , that German agents are enabled to us> the American Peace Leagues for their own ends, because neutral countries think that the British Government's weakness and indecision reflects public opinion. They believe that the war-tired Empire acquiesces in the Cabinet's decision. The article concludes by emphasising that the whole Empire has come to the stern and unalterable decision to continue the war till the Prussian menace is utterly crushed; therefore American interference is unthinkable. In the House of Commons Mr. M'Neill suggested that, with the object of coun teracting the peace intrigues, the Allies should publicly declare that they will not cease fighting while the Germans occupy and A'lied territory. Mr. Bonar Law said the question was one for the Allies in concert. The advisability of the suggested announce ■ went was doubtful, because it might bi taken to mean that wat all we ioked