PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 January 1918, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

| GENERAL LEMAN'S VIEWS WHAT THE GERMANS WANT. Australian Cable Association. Received January 1, <1.15 p.m. Paris ,Dec. 31. General Leman, the defender of Liege, during the course of iln interview, said that the whole of Germany desires peace. The Pan-Germans want it with conquests, and the others without, but the army chiefs will only forfeit their lign influence when the Allies gain a definite victory. THE RREST-LITOVSK CONFERENCE. PRESS COMMENTS. ALLIES' TERMS UNCHANGED. United Service. Received Jan. 1, 8.25 p.m. London, Dec. 31. The Manchester Guardian states that the agreement at Breflfc-L.tovsk represents the terms upon which the Bolsheviks have determined, if the Allies refuse to join a general peace. Russia has surrendered all claim to territories without securing a more colorable appearance of liberty for the inhabitants that Russia has lost as an ally. Some newspapers suggest that after such a gain in the East, Germany will make surrender easier in the West and South, but all agree that the Allies' main terms remain unchanged. It is announced that the Allies intend to make a serious reasoned reply to Count Czernin, and that Mr Lloyd George is going to Paris to confer with M. Clemenceau. The Giornale d'ltalia considers that Count Czernin's proposals are absolutely unacceptable, and that Italy, after its heroic sacrifices, cannot accept the unsatisfactory frontiers of 1860. GERMAN MISREPRESENTATIONS. TO BE ANSWERED BY AMUKICA. Received Jan. 1, 11.45 p.m. Washington, Dec. 3J, The State Department has indicated its intention to answer the Germin misrepresentations in the peace terms. It is believed the United States will reply with the Allies.