PEACE TALK

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 6 September 1915, Page 5

PEACE TALK

VAGUE AMERICAN STORIES

SCOUTED BY BRITISH PRESS

CONSIDERED TO BE GERMAN

"FEELERS."

"PALPABLE POLITICAL FICTION."

LONDON, Sept. 5

There are vague stories from Washington that the Pope has made peace proposals through Cardinal Gibbons, and that the Kaiser has made it known that peace overtures will be acceptable. These stories are scouted by the British press, and are mostly attributed to German agents in America spreading the report as a "feeler."

NEW YORK, Sept. 5

It is reported that Count Bernstorff is asking President Wilson to mediate for peace. The terms include the independence of Poland, the restoration of Germany's African colonies, and complete freedom of the seas. The newspapers continue to ridicule Germany's so-called peace proposals. LONDON, Sept. 5. The New York World publishes an unofficial statement that the German Embassy outlined the attitude towards peace six months ago. The Allies could I have accomplished peace, for then Germany only sought the freedom of the seas. Now the terms required are as cabled, with the addition of equality of and full rights for Jews everywhere. Hence the Allies arc able to establish j peace only by mow and greater con- | cessions. j Newspapers ftlieule the World's statement, which cannot be taken seriously, and state that Americans recognise it as a palpable political fiction. )