WAR MUST BRING PERMANENT PEACE.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13933, 16 July 1917, Page 5

WAR MUST BRING PERMANENT PEACE.

/m . i ACTIVITIES OF FRIENDLY AND ENEMY SOCIALISTS. / ' , VIGOROUS EFFORTS TO PROMOTE PEACE. i. i (Australian and New Zealand Cable Associali"",.) STOCKHOLM, July 13. . A wireless Russian .message says that the Workmen's and Soldim' Council has issued a Manifesto regarding the Stockholm Conferences, announcing that the German minority Socialists approve o.C the Council's programme and also agree to participate in an intei'Rrttional .congress. The delegates of the Majority Socialists 'liftve rcliiHied''to Berlin 1 for :iiistniQtipi)S,TJic Socialists approve the programme; the Hungarians have accepted invitations to the conference and the Austrians have intimated that they, will carry out the conference's decisions. The Dutch and Scandinavian committees are combining with ; the Russian with the purpose' of calling a general congress. Invitations are being issued world-wide to workers'organisations. GERMANS' ABSURD CLAIM OF DEFENSIVE WAR, '( ' ' ' ' ■ : " V MR BALFOUR'S HOPES REGARDING FINAL VICTORY. (Australian and Reuter). \ Pteceived July 15, at 5.5 p.m. ' LONDON, July 14. ' .Mr Balfour, speaking at the Guildhall, replying to an address presented-by the city congratulating him upon the success of his visit to -Americ'aXdeclared that he ridiculed the preposterous' German attempt to pciWa'de the world, she was waging a defensive warfare. She will never be able, in a lifetime, to throw oflE the load of hatred and disgust hue aims and methods had .excited. He reg'oiced that in the inevitable complications and difficulties always preseht with u3, we had the United States on our side. Mr Balfour, apaking 'at .the Mansion House, hoped that when the Peace Conference met, the territorial delimitations of Europe would give more than temporary relief from the horrors.of war, and •make permanent peace. ■