PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1917, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

SOCIALISTS' VIEWa V% _ -' »j SEPARATE PEACE HNTHTMITAiRTa, s|f REPARATION FOR BELQSDIg . .-^ Jj Received May 20, 5J5 p.nt V»"il Stockholm, May Ifc J-'JjJI A wireless meßsage states thai Smm-'W •ng, presiding u. the grew iatetiiatlojlirfl Socialist meeting, declared that neutrals' duty was to work, not te-'tjlf peace at any price, but for a peace durable, and founded on the principles 75 of universal democracy. He added thrift'JN the German Government refused to HrVi low opposition Socialists to Stockholm, tut perhaps it wooM tsrjfl forced to permit them if it remained '~M obdurate. That would be a great nunSt'li victory for the Socialists, revealing 3eK >a 3H many's uneasy conscience and fears. '•' #1 Troelstra, the Dutch Socialist lead*, 115 •aid that Germany was hardly likely fe, U l r a<!ow Russia's example in favor "of"fi p.ii country settling its difficulties iq'.E [ .» on-n .way. :[<M J< "H'lord-, tlle Russian Socialist, aaJaJfl t'i»v 'Lenin's propaganda, for sabotage teffl I*. u-my was an act of folly, and tin ! ff o>-.> possible consequence would toe to 3t uuli the Russian revolution by (Je#- ids man absolutism. Neither was a sepaAl! rate peace thinkable j that would treason to Belgium and other small <b> "fi pressed nations. '.'/Vj Huysmaus, the Belgian f ; S demanded reparation and the independi );E ence of Belgium. ' ,i| Sachaaoff, a Bulgarian, emphasised tits nj powerlesaness of the Bulgarian workeis '"M against the bellicose spirit of the leett> "% ing classes. ~ >* KAISER SNUBS PEACE ADVCyI CATE6. M flouwaj and ozbrnw at WWKjij| Received May 20, 5.6 p.m. t'jfl The Hague, May W. '-M In the Mages Zcitung, Count RerenV itjl low declares that before Easter Herr syi von Bethmann-Hollweg and Count nin outlined a new peace offer, and nil* lj mitted it to the Kaiser for signature, &M but the Kaißer snubbed them. Vjfl Count Roveritlow adds that Herr *oV'ili Bethmanri-Hollwog and Count 'GMtJB'jS have completed an agreement for without annexation. . "«■ PRUSSIAN MILITARISTS ERKVato'»|| OFFER, . \-^m United Service. ' "li* Received Mar 20 ft.6 mw. -"'MM

London, May la* 'j-Jj The Daily Mail states that other la«i formation reveals that the Kaiser vatyM the militarists alone prevented the (hts££ man Government from making newptaoa'.li proposals. , m