PEACE MOVES.
THE POPE'S LETTER. AUSTRIAN ACTION ANTICIPATED. (By Cable —Props Association —Copyright.) (Unitc<l Service.) LONDON, May 7. Tho "Daily News" llomo correspondent says that tho Pope's poaea letter is duo to confidential knowledge of forthcoming peaco proposals by the Emperor of Austria on behalf of Germany.
A SIGNIFICANT APPOINTMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) PARIS, May 7. Monsignor Cerretti's appointment as Secretary of the Congregation is regarded as significant, owing to Monsignor Cerretti being a recognised authority on American, Mexican, and Irish questions. A cablo last week stated :—"Archbishop Cerretti has been appointed secretary of the Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. He will leave for Rome in a few weeks." THE SOCIALIST CONFERENCE. FRENCH DELEGATES TO ATTEND. PARIS. May 7. Eighty members of tho Socialist minority in the Chamber of Deputies decided almost unanimously to send a delegation to the Stockholm Peace Conference. PEACE TALK AMERICAN MINISTER'S WARNING. MERE TEUTON BLUFF. COPENHAGEN, May 7. A eorresnondent interviewed Mr Email, the United States Minister at Copenhagen, who commented on tho German peaco conditions, of which ho lias made a soecial study. Mr Egan warned Americans against any Gorman peace proposal as an attempt upon tho part, of Germany to gain what she is unable to win on the battlefield. Tho relaxation of the American war efforts would merely increaso Germanic contempt for the United .States.
Whilo the food conditions were undoubtedly bad in the interior of Germany, the people were still sanguine of victory, believing that tho American war plans wero merely so much bluff. Peace talk in the United States would merely prolong tho war. There was no trace of a desire in Germany to dethrone the Hohenzollerns. The popular" firmly believed that victory was merely a question of time. Constitutional reforms would not, bear in the slightest degree on tho Kaiser's fate or loosen his seat on the throne.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15896, 9 May 1917, Page 9
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PEACE MOVES.
Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15896, 9 May 1917, Page 9
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