PEACE PROPOSALS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 September 1917, Page 5

PEACE PROPOSALS.

BELGIUM MUST BE RESTORED. . THE POPE'S OPINION. ROME, Sept- 25, Tilt* I’ope considers Hint Germany's request for a peace conference is impossible unless Belgium is freed and restored. THE GERMAN REPLY. RUSSIAN PRESS COMMENT.

I Router's Telegram.) Received I Ill’s dav ai IL2O a-m. ’''TROGRAD, Sept- 20. The Russian newspapers denounce the Kaiser's reply to the Pope, describing- it as undeniably in consequence of the Ensian revolution, for Germany is now silent about the concessions which should have been made at the beginning- of the year. The only reply possible by the Entente is a prosecution of the wav with Russia redoubling- her efforts. GERMAN PRISONERS. ESCAPE EE (EM INTLEN MEN T CAMP. CAPTAIN MULLER RECAPTURED- | Australian ami NZ. Cable Association ] Eeceived this dav at 11.45 a.mLONDON, Se.pt 20. Among- the twenty-four German 'officers who recently escaped was Muller, Captain of the Linden. lie was recaptured. Me had a compass and money enough to last forty-eight, hours. Muller thrice attempted to reescape, but was frustrated. Nine thus far have been recaptured. Several had nearly a hundredweight of food and ing'The subterranean tunnel through which they escaped was forty yards long. STRAFE ENGLAND. YON TIEITTZ AGAINGERMAN VICTORY CERTAIN lAustrallan and N.Z. Cabla Association,] deceived this dav at 11-20 a.m. AMSTERDAM. Sept. 20Admiral Yon Tirpitz, addressing the German Patriotic Party at Blenheim, which desires peace based on wide annexations, violently attacked England. Admiral Von Tirpitz announced that peace was already beckoning and England was already vanquished, thanks to the submarines. lie said that General Von Moltke shortly before his death told him that he always felt that he had taken the side of Belgium in this war, that justice and not injustice was dealt out to BelgiumAdmiral Yon Tirmtz proceeded that Eelgium had never been neutral and was always the bridgehead, of England on (he Continent- Now .Germany, not England, must become the protecting- power, and the enemy must pay Germany an adequate indemnity.