AFTER THE WAR

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2444, 24 April 1915, Page 7

AFTER THE WAR

FUTURE DISPUTES BETWEEN NATIONS. : London, April 22.

TJie German Socialist journal "Vorwaerts" has announced that a conference between German and Austrian Socialists in Vienna agreed that the following guarantees must be secured after tho war:—

That International Arbitration Courts must be developed into obligatory tribunals for the settling of difficulties between nations.

That the treaties and agreements of States must be subjected to democratio Parliamentary control by representative assemblies.

International treaties for the limitation of armaments must be agreed upon ivith a view to disarmament.

The right of every nation to determine its own destiny, must b'e recognised, and the fact that Socialists are belligerents defending their own country must not bo made a barrier to the maintaining of international reJationships between Socialists.

PEACE MOVEMENT BY THE SOCIALISTS. (Rec. April 28, ,10.20 p.m.) London, April 23. 'A message from the Hague says that the German. Socialists are making earnest efforts to obtain a basis for the cessation of the war. Dr. Breimscheldt, one of the leaders of the Ger- ! man Socialist Party, is visiting Holland, and consulting with the Dutch Socialists, with a i view to getting in touch with the, British and French Socialists, and getting them to bring pressure to bear in the same directing? • 'The German Socialists unanimously favour peace, without the annexation of territory. ■. At a private meeting of the party in Germany, a disoussion in favour of peace took place. The general view is that Alsace-Lorraine Bhould not belong to France, or Germany, but Bhould be autonomous. The argument ÜBed was that if France possessed the district, a rankling for vengeance would possess a large part of the population. % It is 'also reported that , the East Prussian landowners are tiding to treat for peace with Russia, owing to a fear that their properties will suffer. The German Socialists believe that a durable peace is probablo upon an arrangement of terms by Germany with France and Britain for tho evacuation of Belgium. In Tcfereuco to the Dardanelles, it is not believed that it would be feasible to internationalise or neutralise the ,Straits imtil there is a United States in Europo. Whereas it is not considered possible to starvo Germany, the belief is expressed that the war will not continue much longer, owing to its disastrous effect on the SMttofflie condition of the countries en-