PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1916, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

A CRYPTIC UTTERANCE. Received Dec. 5, 5.5 p.m. New York, Dec. 4. President Wilson, in a speech, denied that the world's peace would only come with liberty. With all due respect for the other forms of government, he could not telieve that peace would come while th« destinies of men were determined b}' :-mal! groups who made selfish choices. Tilt newspapers give prominence to the speech, but describe it as cryptic. President Wilson does not share the apprehension as to there being fierce trade rivalry after the war. He considered the debt burdening Europe will prevent the United States manufacturers being menaced. PRESIDENT'S SYMPATHY WITH ALLIES. Received Dec. 5, 5.25 p.m. Washington, Dec. 4. Diplomatic circles are stirred at President Wilson's cryptic liberty speech, which they regard as an expression of personal sympathy with the cause of France and England and against Prussian autocracy. Teutonic officials are puzzled. On» said, sarcastically, that perhaps the President referred to Mr. Asquith and his associates, on whom the responsibility for prolonging the war re3ts.