IF GERMANY WANTS PEACE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 115, 21 May 1918, Page 5

IF GERMANY WANTS PEACE.

LET HER DISCLOSE HER TERMS. AMERICA WILL STAND- BY RUSSIA. GERMAN OUTRAGES ON RED CROSS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.} (Rec. May 21, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 20. President Wilson, speaking at the Red Cross demonstration, said : "We are "hot to be diverted from our given purpose of whining the war by any insincere approaches upon the subject of peace. I can say with a clear conscience that I have tested those intimations and found them insincere arid now recognise them for what they are—an opportunity to have a free hand, particularly in the East, to carry out the purpose of conquest and exploitation. Every proposal with regard to the West involves a reservation with regard to the East. Therefore, 'we ifntend to stand bv Russia as well as by France. If the Germans think w e are going to sacrifice anybody for our own sake I tell them now they are mistaken, for the glory of this war, so far as we are concerned, is that perhaps for the first time in history it is an unselfish war If they wish peace let them come forward through accredited representatives and lay their terms on the table. We laid ours and (hey know what they are." President Wilson eulogised the work of the great Red 'Cross organisation, which was recognised by an international agreement 'treaty. One of the deepest stains oh the reputation of the German Army was that it had not re spected 'the Red Cross. That went t<> the root of the matter. They had not respected the instrumentality of mercy and succour which they participated in setting up as an expression of humanity. ALLIES' SHIPPING NEEDS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. May 21. 11.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 20. Mr Crawford Vaughan, interviewed at Vancouver, said the Allies would need 7£ million tons of new shipping this year to maintain their ground and dispatch an American army of a million and a •half men to France. The United fctat.es had been Ibackwnrd hitherto, but was now making every effort to meet the demands. There had been no strike in any of the United States shipyards for months, owing to the Government propaganda explanatory of war aims.