PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1918, Page 7

PEACE TALK.

FRENCH REPLY TO AUSTRIAN NOTI Received Sept. 91, 5:5 p.m. Paris, Sept 20. Replying to the Austrian note, M 'Pichon (French Foreign Milnister) ha: sent the Swiss Minister a copy of II Clemenceau's speech, saying it sumnic< up France's attitude towards the Vi enna Cabinet. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. NO TRADING AND NO BARGAINING. New York, Sept. 19. The New York Times, commentiuj 'on the Austrian peace offer, says: "Aus tria and Germany have themselves t blame if, when they confess defeat am put forward a peace proposal it i peremptorarily rejected as insincere There will be no trailing and no bar gaining with the criminal powers whic. long planned the war, began it, am carried it on like outlaws. At the fina peace conference the Central Power will be forced to stand at the bar an> accept the sentence imposed, the term of that sentence having been repeated! announced by President Wilson. TLi has been the New York Times' attitud always." Referring to the editorial cabled o September 10, the paper says: "Evi dently some of our readers misundei stood our recent editorial. We regard ed the Austrian proposal as a confessio of defeat and an offer of surrendei Considering it so, we believed the pre posal might be considered on the prin ciples laid down bv President Wilson " Mr Joseplius Daniels (Secretary of th Nary) in a speech at Annapolis said "The German war lords never undei stood President Wilson's utterance until he declared last April for fore without stint or limit." Even the the German leaders scoffed at the abil ty of a democratic nation to put a army in the field able to successful meet German divisions. The Germar can have peace whenever they are read to accept the terms stated by Presider Wilson to Congress last January."