PEACE TALK.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1918, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

AUSTRIA'S ATTITUDE. DECISIVE EVENTS EXPECTED SOON THROWING OVER GERMANY. ADVANCE FROM SALONIKA lIASTEMiNU PEACE. Received. Oct. 27, 5.5 pm. London, Oct. 2G. The. Daily Chronicle's Zurich correspondent says that decisive events are expected in Austria-Hungary, whose alliance with Germany is nearmg an end. Peace demonstrations are held daily at Vienna and Budapest. The Daily Express' Amsterdam correspondent says that telegrams from Hungary state that the people and the army are practically in agreement to eeaso lighting on. November 1, whatever attitude Germany and Austria may adopt towards President Wilson. The only condition is that Hungary's territorial integrity shall be preserved. The probability of m-asion from Salonika haa brought the whole nation to favor peace. —Aus. Cable Assoc. GERMAN PRESS PESSIMISTIC. BLUFF AS TO CAPITULATION. Received Oct. 27, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Oct. 25 Advices received in Copenhagen state that plough Reichstag circles are favorably. impressed by the fact that President. Wilson had not interrupted the negotiations, the newspapers are pessimis-' tic. The Lokal Anzeiger says that Germany cannot accept an armistice, which makes her defenceless and on conditions dictated by the enemy. President Wilson demands their subjection, and there can be no doubt as to what the honor of the German people enjoins them to do. The Cologne Gazette states that everything now depends upon whether the military counsellors of tile enemy demand capitulation, as lias happened in Bulgaria, or think that evacuation of the occupied territory will suffice.—Aus.-N.Z. CableAssoc.

AMERICAN REPUBLICANS' VIEWS.

UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. Received Oct.' 27, 5.5 p.m. . Washington, Oct. 25 The Republican leaders in the Senate and House, replying to President Wilson's political anneal, remind him that the war is not Iho President's personal war, but the American people's war. The Republican Party, representing more than ba!f the people of the country, demands a rightful share of the burdens and responsibilities that the war imposes. The Republicans believe that the question of surrender ought to be left In Marshal loch's hands when he reports that Germany has laid down her arms. Then .it will be, time to conduct debates. Everyone knows that, the Republican Party's policy is solely unconditional sur-render.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc.

ROOSEVELT'S STRONG APPEAL , NO CHAT TO CLINKING OF TYPEWRITER. Received Oct. 27, 5.5 p.m. New York, Oct. 2G. Mr Roosevelt, m a telegram from Oyster Bay to Senator Lodge, embodying his comment on President Wilson's reply to Germany, said: "I earnestly trust that the Senate will take an affirmative action against negotiating a peace with Germany, in favor of a peace based on unconditional surrender. I hope the Senate will declare against the adoption of President Wilson's fourteen points as offeriii!.' a basis for peace satisfactory to the United States. Lk us dictate peace by hammering guns, not by chat about peace to' tlie accompaniment of clinking typewriters' language of the fourteen points. Subsequent explanation of them is neither straightforward nor plain. The fourteen points are satisfactory to Germany, pro-Germans, pacifists, and Socialists.—Alls. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

GERMANY AWAITS ENTENTE'S CONDITIONS. Received Oct. 27. 11.20 p.m. Berne, Oct. 20. Advices from Berlin -state that . the War Cabinet has decided to await the Entente's conditions for an armistice before replying to President Wilson's note.—Aus. N.Z. Gable Assoc.