PEACE PROPOSALS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17033, 18 June 1917, Page 5

PEACE PROPOSALS

DEBATE IN AUSTRIA

DEMAND BY SOCIALISTS. Renter's Telegrams. . AMSTERDAM, June 15. During the Budget debate in the Austrian Reichsrath the Socialists demanded that the Government proclaim a desire for peace on the basis of no annexations and no indemnities. GERMAN FEELERS. SUBMITTED TO RUSSIA. Reiner's Telegrams. . LONDON, Juno 16. (Received June 17, at 5.5 p.m.) ;; reported authentically that Germany has indirectly submitted peace proposals to Russia, intimating that a peace without annexations and with no indemnities would be acceptable to Germany. VIEWS OF GERMAN SOCIALISTS. NO .ANNEXATION OR INDEMNITIES. Australian and N.j£. Cable Association. ' . , STOCKHOLM, June 15. (Received „une 17. at 5.5 p.m.) The German majority Socialists have issued an official statement adhering to the Russian Workers' Council's scheme for a peace without annexation or indemnity. They say they are opposed to the violent seizure of territories, and they claim the restoration of snatched colonies as a matter of course. They also state that the extortion of indemnities must be rejected, also the reconstruction of devastated territories. It is easy to agree to political restoration and a nation's right to decide its own independence. Belgium and Serbia should bo restored', Poland and Finland should be ;'.berated, and Ireland. Egypt, Tripoli India, etc., should be freed from foreign Oppression. Regarding Alsace and Lorraine, the Socialists assert that they belong to Germany politically and ethriographically, and their restoration to Franco must be rejected.

GERMAN OVERTURES TO RUSSIA. MADE THROUGH SWITZERLAND. Router's Telegrams. • STOCKHOLM, June 17. (Received June 18, at 0.6 a.m.) Facts have comc to light showing that the Swiss Government has been acting as intermediary between Germany and Russia in promoting the aims of peace. A telegram which was despatched from' Berne on June 5 in the cypher of the Swiss I'ederal Council to the Swiss Minister in 1 etrograd said : M. Hofmann, a member f ii Swiss Federal Council, authorises the following communication ' Germany undertakes no offensive while an arrangement with Russia, is possible. I am convinced, after conversations with important personages m Germany, that her aims for a peace with Russia are honourable, both with regard to intimate economic and commercial relations, financial support to rehabilitate Russia, no interference with the internal affairs of Russia, an entente cordialo regarding. Poland, Lithuania, Courland, and restoration of ilhe occupied provinces. including Austrian territory in "the possession of Russia. 1 "

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. Reutor's To lop: rams. AMSTERDAM, June 17 (Received June 18, at 0.6 a.m.) It is significant that simultaneous with the publication of M. Hofmann's comuiiiunication a statement appears in the official Norddeutsche Gazette that the Russian formula of peace without annexations or indemnities is acceptable to Germany.

THE ITALIAN MINISTRY. Reuter's Tclr<rrnms. ROME, June 17 (Received June 18, at 0.6 a.m.) S'-gnor Dallowio has been promoted to the office of Minister of Munitions from the position of Under-secretary, and Sinn or Arlotta becomes R Minister without portfolio. The Ministers of Wax and M.-vrine have resigned to remme active service, and General Giardino and Rear-admiral Trinani will succeed them.

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