PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1917, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

PROPOSED PEACE TERMS. OP GERMAN SOCIALISTS. Received May 9, 9.35 p.m. Petrograd ,May 0. 'A meeting of the executive of Workmen and Soldiers' delegates at Borgbjerg, representing the labor parties of Scandinavia, transmitted the peace terms proposed by the German Socialist Party majority group—namely, the right of freedom for national development; compulsory arbitration in future international disputes'; restitution by Germany of the occupied territories; a plebiscite in Russian Poland on the question of independence or German or Russian annexation; the restoration of the independence, of Belgium*. Serbia,. and Roumania; the restoration to Bulgaria of tho 'Bulgarian districts of Macedonia; the grant to Serbia of a free- port in tho Adriatic; and an amicable rectification of the Lorraine frontier. A minority group of Socialists propose more liberal terms Tho executive promised an early discussion of the terms. HUMORED TURKISH DESIRE. Rome, May S. The Idea Nazionale says that Turkey is desirous of peace and is willing to internationalise the Dardanelles and (Palestine and to create an autonomous State in Armenia.