PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1916, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

A PIOUS HUMBUG,

THE KAISER ON THE ALTERED OFFER. Amsterdam, .Pec! Ifl. The Kaiser, on December 14. speaking to the Lorraine Army, said; "I have addressed to our adversaries a proposal for peace negotiations but am uncertain whether they will accept them and act on them, It is in God's hands, as is our whole struggle. He will decide upon it; we leave it to Him and must not argue as to his orderim. Wc. are grateful to Him that wc thusi far have had the honor of being His instruments in the divine judgment that has come upon our enemies. Let the decision fall as it will, the hewing will proceed further until our adversaries have had enough. I can trust you for that."

Horr Scheidmami, leader of the German Socialist, majority, writing to the Cologne Gazette, emphatically denies that he condemned the Belgian deportations. Referring to peace, he says that if the terms include depriving Germany of a single province she will immediately commence re-arming to re-capture it. The Kolnisehe Zeitung states that if the Entente refuses peace submarines will be given the word to go forward. No American will prevent us enforcing peace upon the enemy when we want to negotiate. Ihe United States Embassy has delivered tiie German note to the French Government. It merely contains the text of the remarks which Horr von Eethmann-Hollweg read on December 12, without any concrete proposals- i

MERELY WASTE PAPER. Rome, Dee. 19. 11. iSonnino, in the Chamber, said the German peace note was merely wast; paper. The Cl amber endorsed the Government policy by 352 to 41. MR. MASSEY'S VIEWS. London, Dee. ]9. Mr. Massev, responding to the toaat of New Zealand, said pence terms made in Germany were impossible. We could not forget the barbarous and brutal methods by which Germany had carried on the war. She. must understand wc \\cre not going to be bullied or cajoled into a premature peace. We must avenge the death of many gallant men and make a repifition of this terrible war impossible and thereby secure a peace of which we can all be proud.