PEACE OVERTURES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2541, 16 August 1915, Page 5

PEACE OVERTURES

CARDINALS MEET SHORTLY By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ("Times"' and 'Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, August 13. 'Acting on the Pope's instructions, Cardinals Gibbons, 1 arley, and O'Counell .will assume the initiative at a meeting of cardinals and bishops, to be held in Switzerland to devise the best means of securing peace. Spain and Holland will he_ represented, and America has promised moral and diplomatic support. GERMAN PEACE INTRIGUES RUSSIA APPROACHED IN MARCH. London, August 13. An Italian Green Hook discloses that tlio Ambassadors at Nish, Sofia, Berlin, and Potrograd reported that an Aus-tro-German peaco overtnro had been made to Petrograd by tolegraph on March' 29. An imimpugnablo source states that, someone speaking in the liamo of Austria-Hungary addressed a serious attempt at peaco to Russia. ANY PATCHED UP PEACE MEANS VICTORY FOR GERMANY. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, August 13. Tho "Now York Tribune" declares that the necessity for circumspection and caution at Washington is greater than at any time since the beginning of tho war in view of tho German peaco intrigues.' Tho "Tribune" points out that any peace patched up to-day will simply mean victory for Germany. Peace giving her Belgium and disposing- of Franco as a nation, and establishing tho doctrino that treaties are scraps of paper, will mako crimes like that of the sinking of tho Liisitania justifiable. DR. LIEBKNECHT WILL 'ASK A PERTINENT QUESTION. '(Rec. 'August 15, 3 p.m.) . Amsterdam, August 14. A telegram from Berlin states that Dr. Liobknceht, writing from the Eastern front, gives notice to ask in tlio l?eichstng whether tlio Governmout is disposed to abandon the idea of any annexation whatever and chief info imw?» iliatw lioUi'Biu'lsi'N if other belligerents similarly inclined*.