THE PEAGE PROPOSALS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15793, 8 January 1917, Page 7

THE PEAGE PROPOSALS.

{THE KAISER SPEAKS.

A BOMBASTIC ORDER

(By Cable.—Prees Association. —Copyright.) (Keuter'a Telegrnms.) (Received January 7th, 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM. January G. It is officially stated that the Kaiser in an Order to the Army and Navy; says:—"Our enemies have refused my offer of peace. They desire Germany's destruction. Before God and humanity, I declare that the heavy responsibility for the further terrible sacrifices rests upon the enemies who do not want that j understanding offered by nic. With God's help and our arms, we will en-«| force it." I

The Kaiser added: —"In justified anger for the omjmy's presumptuous in alien and with the desire to defend your holiest possessions, and ns a guarantee for a happy future, you will become like steel." GERMANY'S AIMS A PROFESSOR'S PROPOSALS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January 7tli, 5.5 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, January G.

Professor Delbruck, in an article on Germany's war aims, says: —"A durable peace is impossible if Germany draws up terms producing the suspicion that she aspires to -world's hegemony. Favourable as the military position is, a continuation of the war will hardly carry us to a position where wo can dictate peace." The professor advocates the annexation of Courland and its two million Gorman peasants, and says that Germany must have back her colonies and compensation for the damage suffered during the blockade, and from the repudiation of the Congo-Niger Conventions. Greece and other neutrals should also demand compensation. INTERNAL DISSENSION, DR. VON HOLLWEG ASSAILED. (By Cable. —Prea» Association.— I Copyright.) AMSTERDAM, January 5. /The 'Neueste Nachrichten" bitterly assails Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's reference to "scraps of paper" at tho outbreak of the war, and the Entente's use of it in their recent reply. It is significant that the "Deutsche Zeitung" simultaneously declares that "These threo worda were as bad as ten lost battles.'' It also demands that Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg resign. Some newspapers demand the return of Admiral von Tirpitz to power. AN ALLEGED "WEAKLING." (Router's Telegnjna.) AMSTERDAM. January 5. Krupp's organ, the "Neuste Nachrichten," demands tho immediate resignation of Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg. It says:—"After the Entente's rejection of his peace proposals, he i s discredited as a weakling, not only in Germany buk in Europe." A BAIT FOR PEACE. AMSTERDAM, January 5. Tho "Arbeiter Zeitung" urges the instant evacuation of the West if th e Entente would be willing to negotiate peace after that. i u