PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1917, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

CHINA'S REPLY. 1 ■ WAIT TILL AFTER Tllff WAR. ,Received Jan. 17, 12.10 am, London, Jan. !p With a vicr to cheering up Berlin at the adher , of .uiothei neutral to President Wiison's Soto, Dernstorff has sent a wireless message to Germanv, giving the text o' China's reply. which ventures to declare thut the war has probably affected Chimi's interests more seriously than of other neutrals. China is uiopared,,after the war, to join in " suruig respect foi , the principle of equal,.y or nat'uiis, and to relieve thelnn of the perils' oi wrong I and violence. I ■ i ' i THE KAISER'S TESTIMONIAL TO 1 I HIMSELF. Amsterdam, Jan. 15. The 'Xord Deutsche AHegemeine Zeitung states that the Kaiser s ;;ctter to Herr von Bethmann-Holhvcj, on October 31, proves his nonest desire for peace. He wrote: "It is clear Unt the enemy's peoples have been caught by the war psychosis, supported b; lies and deceit. Tliev do not j>os-'e*s a man able or firm enough to speak to liberate the world by making peace. The proposal requires a rulei with a consumes, realising that he is responsible for his own and hostile peoples, a ruler inspired by the desire to deliver the world from sufterings, and not minding the possibility of wrong interpretations. I have courage to do it, and will venture, relying upon God." GERMAN SOU ALLS IS' ACTION (Times Service.) Received Jan. 10, 5.5 p.m Amsterdam, Jan. 15 TJhe Vorwaerts has been allowed to publish an appeal to German Socialists to unitedly approach the. Socialists elsewhere, so as to induce belligerents to enter into peace negotiations. i