PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1917, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

WAR VETERANS' PROTEST. "ARE ALL OUR SACRIFICES TC BE: IN VAIN?"Renter Service. 'Received Aug. 24, 820 p.m. London, A l] &- 23. The secretary of tin* Natiotial Federation of Discharged Soldiers and Sailors has telegraphed to the King and tire Premier as follows: "A quarter of a milliou men who fought at Mons, the. Marne. the Aisne, Yipres, and Jutland protest against the discussion of peace at Stockholm or elsewhere. Are all our sacrifices to be in vain? Remember wo on.ee helped to savo Europe." MR. 'ROOSEVELT'S VIEWS. New York, Aug. 23. ilr. Roosevelt, addressing the Belgian-; Mission, said that an inconclusive peace would be a menace to civilisation. No peace would be acceptable unless it gave a very heavy indemnity to Belgium. JJ. KEllENSlvf-'S STATEMENT!'. PetrogTad, Aug. 23. M. Kcrensky, in a statement in the organ of the Soldiers' and Workmeii?B Committee, says -hat the Provisional Government considers adhesion to the treaties with Britain and France a question of conscience and iioaor. In view of t'lio Government's attitude to the Stockholm Conference the decisions of tliat conference cannot nio(Hy its' policy-, concerning treaties. Tlie conference Jk a party _aifair, not a Government one. I At tlie same time tlie Government j aims at facilitating the holding of the [ conference v/ith the participation, of the Sseialwfc