PEACE TALK IN GERMANY.

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 37, 14 February 1916, Page 7

PEACE TALK IN GERMANY.

SEVERAL INTERESTING ' ' STATEMENTS.

BRITAIN DOMINATES THE

POSITION,

LONDON, 12th February. The Exchange Telegraph's Copenhagen correspondent states:—"From Germany one hears now only the strong cry of the people for peace."

ZURICH, 12th February. Professor Carl Binding, the wellknown Leipzig jurist, in an,article entitled : "Two Ways to Peace," namely, by a general peace congress, or by separate treaties, argues that the Central Powers must insist on separate' peace. The Central Powers ' would be in a minority at a general congress, which Britain would dominate. She, of all the enemy States, can wait the. longest for peace. : Professor Binding believes thai when seperate peace ii once successfully, entered upon, one enemy .'State , after another will acoejit it when they, cannot hold out any longer.

AMSTERDAM,. 12th* February. . Baron yon -Zeidlits, the Budget Reporter, in a. speech in the rriutk*-

Diet, said :—"ln view of the whole wa»situation, the conclusion of peace in the near future is not impossible. - An_.an-: nonncement of our aim appears *» be necessary." v ZURICH, 12fch February. Spealang at the ■• industrial club in Vienna, M, Riedl, an. officer at the Ministry of Commerce, said that Austria's commercial situation for the first six months of the war was extremely dangerous owing to a veritable^ famine of raw material. Only two countries (Britain and America) would be able to resume industrial production immediately. Although Austria's and Germany's industries. were intact, they lacked raw materials. Unless Austria, was prepared to prohibit importations, Britain and America, might take all the profits of the situation. • '■

M. Riedl urged the prompt organisation of the industrial interests. Peace might come sooner, than expected. It could come overnight.