PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1917, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

TIME FOR PEACE NOT RIPE PAPAL OFFER TO BE REJECTED. New York. Aujr. 22. fhe Washington correspondent of the New York Times yays it ii wiieved that the Pope's peace offer will I*; rejected by Ml tfce AJllcfi, triiu believe that the time b not ripe to accept mediation. THE PAPAL NOTE. ATTITUDE of enemy powers. ■Received A*ig. 23. 10 p.m. Berne, Aug. 23. Tt is reported tlin Austria favors complete acceptance of tin Paoal Vote, whilst Germany favor* conditional acceptance. Bulgaria ia demanding Au-tro-'Jermar. consent to her annexation of the occupied territory. ALLIES' REPLY TO PAPAL NOTE. ■Rome. Au?. 22. It is believed thai will send the joint reply of t!.<- Aliie* to the Papal Xoto after conferring with the AHie*. GERMAN CHAKCELLOR'S VIEWS. Amsterdam. Aug. 22. . Dr. Michael}?, German Chancellor, adIressing the Reich.=ta? main committee, uid that no desire for peaw with the tnemv existed. The enemy's -war aims km«l proved their d .-.-ire to sumllr'atc Germany, therefore one "conhf not tninfc Of peace. This should he stated in vf, w of the Pope's Xote. He had not yet had time with Germany', allies to deliberate fn the Xote, bjt there vas not anv ionbt of the Pope's hon<- ty, therefore fee greeted the Xote sympathetically.