PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1918, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

CONFERENCE RESUMED. ■UKRAINE REPRESENTED. AUSTRO-GERMAN STATEMENTS. Amsterdam, Jan It. Ukraine is represented at Brest Litovsk. Baron von Kuhlmann, who presided, complained of semi-official Russian statements circulated by the Petrograd telegraph agency and containing an imaginary report of the previous sitting which endangered a continuation of the negotiations. He added: "I do not eare to give up all hope of the negotiations leading to satisfactory results. The difficulties of a material character disclosed at th« previous sittings were not great, enough to justify the idea of peace work failing." Count Czernin said the Central Powers agree to refer unsettled matters to a committee and to conclude negotiations on a basis both sides had considered. If Russian intentions were unaltered the conference would reach satisfactory results, otherwise the jesponsibility for a continuation of the war would be exclusively Russian.

GERMAN LABOR WANTS PEACE CROWN PRINCE'S REPLY, Amsterdam, Jan. 11. The Peace Committee of the German laborers telegraphed to the Kaiser, the Crown Prince, and Marshal von Hjndonlurg. requesting them to secure the German laborers' future by peace or victory. The Crown Prince replied: ''There is no reason for uneasiness. The Empire's leaders will crown the heroic deeds of the army and navy bv a good and honorable peace, guaranteeing happy conditions of life for Gorman laborers and free development of their labors on German soil."

PRESIDENT WILSON'S MESSAGE. ! CENSORED IN GERMANY. VITUPERATIVE PRESS COMMENTS. Amseerdam, Jan. 11. President Wilson's message is mutilated and suppressed in many German newspapers. The Cologne Volks Zeitung says: "In the interests of our readers we do not give a full report of Jiat bloated individual whose message contains impertinent insinuations which possess not the slightest value. The speech shows Mr. Wilson posing as a world judge, to whose decisions every living creature is supposed to bow!" The entire Gorman "comment indicates that the Central Powers are suffering with swelled head, the greater because of the prospect of a separate peace with Russia. The high command i 9 determined to make one more appeal to the God of BAttles, believing it will succeed, but in the event of failure the conditions will be not much worse than they are now.