PEACE TALK.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1918, Page 2

PEACE TALK.

PEACE FEELERS. (Reuter’s Telegram.; AMSTERDAM, April 5. A semi-official message from Vienna states that apropos of M. Clemenceau’s denial of peace "feelers, Count Czernin stated that he instructed Count Reventera, councillor of the legation in Switzerland, to confer with Count Armaud whom the French War Office had nenr to Switzerland for that purpose. Intel - views were held at Blafbourg on the 2nd of February and the discussion sought to lend a basis for negotiations for a general peace.

Count Reventera, he said, requested Court Armaud to inform M. Clemenceau that Count Czernin was desirous to negotiate with a French representative, and believed that success was possible if France would renounce all aspirations to recover Alsace-Lorraine. Count Armaud later informed Count Reventera, in M. Clemenceau’s name, that the latter could not accept the renunciation of Alsace-Lorraine and the peace pourparlers therefore were useless.

GERMAN EXPERT’S OPINION \ (Reuter’s Telegrams.l AMSTERDAM, April 5. The German war critic. Captain Jersi. us f writing in the Berlin “ Tageblatt.f’ expresses the opinion that even if the British Army is .smashed, Germany cannot land troops in England until the British Fleet is beaten. He doubts the ability of submarinism to starve Britain. , Hence he comes to the conclusion that Britain and Germany should make peace, as neither can destroy the other. Such a peace, adds Captain Persius, should' now be easier to attain in view of Prince Lichnowskv’s and Herr von Jagow’s disclosures that Britain was not responsible for the war.