Stockholm Conference.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VII, Issue 252, 17 August 1917, Page 5

Stockholm Conference.

BRITISH LABOUR’S DECISION.

TO BE RE-AFFIRMED

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London, August 16. Mr Henderson intends on Tuesday to ask the Labour Conference to reaffirm the Stockholm Conference resolution. The South Wales Miners Federation supported the Labour executive and endorsed its application for passports.

CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD.

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(Received, 17, 8.50 a.m.) Stockholm, August 16. M. Huysmans, President of the Socialist Conference, states that the Conference will be held. It is only a question whether it should be deferred until the Allies’ Socialist Conference is concluded or commence as a conference representing neutrals, Central Powers and Russia. . , M. Huysmans believes tinat the Governments who are refusing passports to labour delegates will perish before the conference.

GERMAN COMMENT.

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Amsterdam, August 16. . The “Vorwaerts” says, that Mr Henderson’s resignation is the prelude to the downfall of .the Lloyd George Cabinet. The French. Rub sian and British Governments are shaking dangerously. Nevertheless the writer warns the Germans against nursing the hope that the Entente crisis will lead to peace. (Received, 17, 8.50 a.m.) Amsterdam, August 16. The “Vorwaerts” interprets Britain’s refusal to grant passports tc enable labour delegates to go to Stockholm as the clearest evidence that the Anglo-American combination is determined to carry on the war until Germany is completely overthrown, thus the Entente has torn away its masks of hypocrisy showing a more warlike spirit than Germany. It also says that the Entente disregards the Russian Peace movement.