PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1918, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

LORD LANSDOWNE AGAIN. 1 SUGGESTS PRELIMINARY' COXVEKS*' • ATIOXS WJTIf Tl>'< ENEMY. Received Srarch 0, 7 .iO p.m. London, March 5. Lord Litiisdownc, in u letter to t'h« Daily Telegraph, says I hat Count von llertling'.s speech was unsatisfactory from many points, but it mark* it perceptible advance. lie agrees that Air. , Balfour would not be wise to'begin gotiations unless some measure of potential preliminary agreement existed. Ho suggests preliminary conversations are necessary lo secure suck agreement. Count llerl ling's references to Belgium " certainly imply conditions which would prevent lier having an independent placo among the nations of Kurope. If, how- , ever, Count Jlertling merely requires a guarantee that Belgium will not become a jumping-off ground for enemy machinations, it should not be difficult toj satisfy him. He suggests that the dialogue should he continued ami not'ha allowed to lapse into intornatc djscus- ■ sion! He further suggests that quentions regarding the occupied portions of. France, Alsace-Lorraine, the Turkish empire, and Italy's claim* upon Austria, should he remitted to an international peace conference. PALKANS. ROUMANIAN ALTERNATIVE. PEACE OR EXTINCTION. COUNT CZERNTX'S THREAT. Received March fi, 11.50 p.m. Wasliington, .March 5. The State Department has been-ads vised that Count Czernin has warned t Roumania that if she failed to accede tot ' (he Austro-German ternw sho would b» wiped off the map of Europe. IRISH AFFAIRS, IRISH CONVENTION REPORT* GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSALS FOR 4 SETTLEMENT. Received March 0, 5.5 p.m. London, March, 5 V The report of the Irish Convention / may be issued next'week, together with * the Government's proposals for a settta meitt. SIR EDWARD CARSON. Received March C, 5.5 p.m. Reuter Service. London, March .5. Sir Edward Carson has been re-elccte4 chairman of the Irish Unionist party.