GERMAN PEACE CAMPAIGN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 307, 27 December 1915, Page 6

GERMAN PEACE CAMPAIGN.

THE NOVEMBER RIOTS. HOW THE MEETING WAS CALLED. LONDON, December 26. The "Times" Swiss correspondent forwards an interesting typewritten mimeograph document furtively circulated in Berlin, drawing attention to a peace meeting on All Souls' Day (November 2). It asked all men and women who wanted peace to assemble in the Unter den Linden. It continues: "Lon<* live peace. According to Lord Loreburn's speech in the English House of Lords, about 25,000,000 have been killed or injured in the war. The document adds: "Lord Courtney declared that a way must be found out of the impasse," and concludes, "The people want peace." The peace meeting resulted in riots, a number, including women, being shot. The "Times" New York correspondent says the Germans are working up a Christmas peace boom. The German Press is daringly asserting that the time has come for concerted action, thinking that recent events, especially the partial withdrawal from the Dardanelles, gives an excellent opportunity for mobilising American humanitarianism and making Americans think' the Allies are responsible for the continuance of the war. The "Tribune" says Germany is already soundly beaten. The Allies could afford to make peace, instead of persevering in their attempts to crush her. Military experts and well-meaning idealists support this view. A leading intellectual weekly favours an early peace, because, if getting a comfortable compromise. Germany may be bribed to keep the peace hereafter. The correspondent adds: "Nevertheless, it would he unwise to attach over-import-to German intrigues,"