PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1917, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

LORD ROBERT CECIL'S VIEWS. MUST FOSTER ECONOMIC STRENGTH 1 London, Sept. 2. Lord Robert Cecil, in an interview, said that he did not consider there was any inconsistency between President j Wilson's Note and the Allies' policy out- j lined at the Pari-, Economic Conference. ( The resolutions passed there were purely defensive, aiming at the restoration of the Allies' economic. life after .the | war, and at protecting ourselves against the aggressive militarist commercial ( policy the enemy may pursue after the war. Germany's schemes for forcing lier allies into a commercial league show the real danger of her policy. Wo consider economic considerations as vital as military measures, and during the war must foster our economic strength as much as that of the army and navy. We rightly attack the enemy's economic strength with every legitimate weapon, and accordingly we rejoice at America's vigorous export policy. One of the most potent weapons for impressing on the Germans the folly and wickedness of their militarist leaders is to show that war is unprofitable even in existing conditions. Neutrals are reaching the end of their patience 'with regard to German outrages, and it is scarcely extravagant to say that if tho war lasts many months the Central Powers will find the whole remainder of the world against them. The state of things shows that military force is not everything. Even had Ger-.. man arms been as successful as the Kaiser boosts they have been, Germany'e future is increasingly dark. Our economic policy also possibly indicates tho real solution of the problem of preventing future wars, namely, the financial, commercial, and economic isolation of an aggressive Power by the proposed league of nations. SOCIALISTS' MANIFESTO. A WAR FOR RIGHT, NOT CONQUEST. London. Sept, 2. Mr. Henderson, MM. Vandervelde, Thomas, and other British, French, and Belgian delegates to the So'. : a!ist Conference, have issued a manifesto in order to avoid misunderstanding owing to the failure of the conference to agree on the principal questions. Tho manifesto states that tho. policy of imperialism and the antagonistic tendencies which divide capitalistic societies caused tho war. The victory of the German imperialists would mean the annihilation of democracy and liberty throughout tho world. The Russian r< volution has not yet stirred an up--1 rising of popular forces in Austria and Germany $ instead, the new Russian i democracy has been compelled ta defend i itself against ronewed aggression by the , Tsars at Vienna and Berlin. , The Russiart peace formula deals with the clearer definition of peace without 1 indemnities, nvhioli should not exclude just compensation for damages. Peace without annexations cannot exclude the disannexation of territories conquered ; by force. The war for the right must i not be permitted to become a war of • conquest. The Austro-Germans cannot • expect an effective effort towarfls peace i until a substitute is found for their present governments in a democratic regime sealing tho defeat of militarism. Then i it will be the duty of Socialists all the world over to prevent the Allied Govern- . ments crushing the new Austro-German democracies.

GERMAN SOCIALISTS BUSY. EARLY STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE DESIRED. Received Sept. 3, $.30 p.m. Zurich, Sept. 3. Herr Scheidemann and Herr Eliert, representing the Cerman Majority .Socialists, attended a conference of Socialists of the Centra] Powers at Vienna. Tito meeting demanded the holding of the Stockholm Conference without delay, and appealed to the Dutch and Scandinavian ocmmittce to make arrangements. It recommended that the question of responsibility for the war should be e.\ u cluded from the Stockholm deliberations, and urged that Austria continue its peace efforts and exercise pressure upon Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey towards peace. CHICAGO CONFERENCE DISPERSED. New York, Sept. 2. The People's Council opened a peace conference in Chicago, but the police quietly dispersed the gathering. The conference has been barred in four States, and Washington delegates state they \sV.l charter a ship and hold a conference on the Atlantic Ocean. KOREAN VIEWS. Stockholm, Sept. 2. The International Socialists of Korea sent congratulations on the initiation of a conference with the. object of bringing peace. They point out that. Balkan questions precipitated the war, and similarly the Korean questions may provoke the next war if Korea remains enslaved.