PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 January 1917, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

LABOR MEMBERS' VIEWS. |,PRESENT WAR MUST BE THE LAST WE CANNOT MAKE TERMS WITH A WILD BEAST. Router Service. Received Jan. S, 5.2.5 p.m. London, Jan. 7. -Mr. G. N. Barnes (a Labor M.P.),'in a speech at Southwnrk, said President 'Wilson's Note was entitled to all respect. We ought to assure President Wilson that we did not desire to smash Germany, or anybody or anything else except militarism and pride, ivlnc-h we ought to smash, so that the present war would be the last. The best way to get peace was to banish peace from our minds until we attained the objects for which we entered the war. The German peace-feeler spoke in the tone of a conqueror, while the mood was that of a murdered. We could not make terms with a wild beast. Received Jan. 8, 10 p.m. London, Jan. S. Mr. Barnes went on to say: "We must remember that we are largely dependent upon American munitions and other imports, but a more important reason is that America is 'the other half' of t'lie English-speaking people. The first democratic country in the work! wants to be friendly with us, and we ought to cultivate her friendship, and we ought to tell President Wilson our terms and objects, though perhaps they should not be published.'' He added that he thought the terms would include the evacuation oi Belgium and the invaded territories of the small peoples, with repatriation; also Germany's acceptance of the peace document, backed up by the moral force of the whole world.

TERMS OF GERMAN "OFFER." THE HUN STILL LIVING IN HOPES. Received Jan. S, 8 p.m. Amsterdam, .Tan, 8. The Niemve Courth states that Berlin, after repeating the denial that Czernin had secretly furnished President Wilson with the Central Powers' peace terms, says the report is based upon a misunderstanding. The terms have not M?en yet disclosed to any neutral, and in view of the Entente's refusal of the German invitation there is no necessity to announce them. In any ea=c no further steps will be taken until the Rnitente officially replied to 'President Wil son. Everything depends upon the nature of that reply. Germany has not yet abandoned hope of some satisfactory outcome of President Wilson's demarche. GERMAN TERMS NOT DISCLOSED. Copenhagen, Jan. 7. There is lively discussion in the German newspapers in connection with Count Andrassy's declaration tliat President Wilson is acquainted ivit'i the German peace terms. The T.okal Anzeiger and the Yossische declare that Germany has not given him her tonus, but it willing to lay them before a peace conference MR. GERARD'S MISSION. 1 AN APT COMPARISON. Received, Jan. 8, 10 30 p.m. Ne\V York, Jan. S. Surprise was created in Ijerliu at the News Agency's report of Mr. Gerard's speech in which he doelaied that never since the beginning of the war had the relations between Germany and the United States been so cordial. He added that he brought the olive branch from President Wilson. Von 'jwinncr compared Mr. Gerard's mission to Noah's peace dove, which sot out too early. INQUIRY INTO LEAKAGE. New York, Jan. 7. The Stock Exchange iiaa been instructed not to destroy the records of transactions in December owing to the allegations that information was known to brokers two days previous to the issue of President Wilson's Peace Note. The New York Times says the inquiry into the leakagi; has resulted in the soiling of respected names on the idlest barber shop gossip.

PRONOUNCEMENT BY LORD BUCKMASTER. London, .Tan. " Lord Buekinastor. speaking at. Keiglilev, sail all peace proposals ought to he published, but not summarily reeeted. Neither for glory nor for vengeance ought the war to be prolonged for an hour. Every fair mean? whereby a lasting probable peace was sccurabie ought to be welcomed, but none could be lasting and honorable unless it prevented a repetition of this war in future and provided reparation for the past.