GERMANY ISSUES PEACE FEELERS.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13975, 12 September 1917, Page 6

GERMANY ISSUES PEACE FEELERS.

IMPOSSIBLE TERMS CIRCULATED IN AMERICA "PRESIDENT WILSON CAN BRING IMMEDIATE PEACE." {Australian and New Zealand Oabiu Association.) " NEW YORK, September 10. A report in circulation among the diplomats at Washington, purporting to give the German peace terms, is attracting considerable interest. The terms include, the restoration of Belgium', Northern France, Serbia, and Rumania, to be paid for by the sale of the German colonies to Britain. Alsace and Lorraine are to be independent States. The terms also include the disarmament and an international police, freedom of the seas, with the English controlling the English Channel until a Dover-Calais tunnel is constructed. The report generally is regarded as a feeler. •' (Reiner's Telegrams.) NEW YORK, September 10. The United Press publishes 'an interview Avitli- HenSchiedemann, who states that'' President Wilson can bring ' immediate peace if he acts in support of his words and further bloodshed will be unnecessary if America accepts Germany's acsu.rance that she will democratise herself within a generation. The interview is interpreted as meaning that Herr Scheidcmann is still the tool of the militarist junkers.

MEANING OF "NO INDEMNITY AND NO ANNEXATION" FORMULA. CUNNING ATTEMPT TO ANTAGONISE SECTIONS OF BRITISH EMPIRE. . (Australian and New Zealand Gable Association,) Received September 11, at 5.5 p.m. \ LONDON, September 10. The Inter-Allied Trade Union Conference has opened in London. The Management Committee's statement said that the formula of "no indemnities and no annexations" needed explanation before being seriously discussed. The formula ignores the point of view of the Britisli self-governing colonies and Dominions, the adoption of which would antagonise the Dominions. All Germany's friends were aware ,of that. If Great Britain and the Dominions were involved in a conflict on the point it would be a German diplomatic triumph.