FOR PEACE.

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2033, 27 March 1913, Page 2

FOR PEACE.

SIR EDWARD GREY ON THE BALKAN ISSUE.

"WITHOUT THREATENING LAN-

WILL BRITAIN AND RUSSIA TAKE A HAND.

BY ELECTBIO TELEGEAPH—COPTBIGHX PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION.

, London, March 26. In He House of Commons, Sir luiward Grey said the most importa.u and most urgent phase of the Balkan question was that oi : securing an agreement of the Powers. If the lowers decision was not respected he trusted that those disputing it would ba confronted not by the separate action of one Power, but by the united pressure of ail the Powers. If the terms proposed in regard to the war wore not accepted and a frontier line were, demanded raising a question in correction with Constantinople the Dardanelles, and Asia Minor 'then -lintain and one more Power would become concerned in .the terms of peace iiod_ as disinterested mediators but as interested parties. That waj why He urged, without threatening language, that the belligerents should accept the Powers' basis of peace. Untam had pursued a policy of peace ana worked continuously, consistently, and single mindedly to promote agreement among the Powers Mr Boiiar Law expressed the Opposition Party's approval of Sir Edward Grey's policy. Premier Asquith said Britain felt that an enormous and unspeakable debt of gratitude was due to the Powers for their admirable forbearance in the recent crisis.