LABOUR WAR AIMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16757, 25 January 1918, Page 5

LABOUR WAR AIMS.

JUST DEMOCRATIC PEACE. BRITISH DECLARATION. , FIGHTING ON TO GAIN IDEALS. (Received 8.10 p.m.) Router. LONDON, Jan. 23. In his presidential address to , the Labour Conference at Nottingham, Mr. W. F. Purdy, said peace by negotiation while Germany occupied foreign territories would mean a German victory. If Germany did not accept the terms enunciated by Mr. Wilson and Mr. Lloyd Georgo we must fight on. Germany could no longer claim to bo fighting a defensive war. Them was not yet any sign of the enemy being willing to accept the principles of Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Wilson, and .of Laboun. Would the Gorman democracy (define its war aims and face its Government as wo had faced our Government? The way was open to Germany if the German people and Government sincerely desired a just peace. Peace by agreement under present conditions would mean fastening militarism more strongly on' the people of Germany and the peoples of the British Empire and the world. We must have a clean peace. If it was only obtainable by fighting wo must go on fighting to the end. Mr. Hug3man, secretary of the International Socialist Bureau, said that if the moderate and democratic war aims of the Labour Party were presented to an international Labour Conference, then the German and Austrian Labour parties would be compelled to declaro their war aims. If a -general agreement transpired the fighting would be paralysed. Mr. Arthur Henderson moved a resolution welcoming the statement of war aims by Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Wilson so far as they harmonised with tho Labour aims, and requesting (he allies to formulate their aims at the earliest possible moment, in order that they might be compared with a similar statement which tho democracies of enemy countries will be requested to make. The resolution was practically unanimously carried. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (E«cd. 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23. Mr. Arthur Henderson, in a circular to the Labour delegates, recapitulates the Labour war aims, and adds: "All tho Socialist parties in Europe now agree with the Bolsheviks. So does Mr. Wilson's published statement. RAID UPON SOCIALISTS. BRITISH PARTY PREMISES. SEIZURE OF LEAFLETS. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Jan. 23. Sir Georgo Cave, Secretary of Stato for Home Affairs, replying to Mr. C. P. Trevelyan, Liberal member for Elland, said that the police had raided the premises of the British Socialist Party, and had seized leaflets intended for distribution at the Labour Conference in Nottingham, containing tho party's views on Labour's policy and a message from the Russian Socialist Litvoff. The leaflet contained statements calculated to lead to civil strife, and also a gross misrepresentation of tho Government's attitude towards the Russian people. The Government was considering a prosecution. He denied that a person claiming to represent a foreign Government was at liberty to engage 'in propaganda in this country. VACANCY IN WAR CABINET. NO APPOINTMENT FOR TIME. A. and N.Z. LONDON, Jap. 23. The Parliamentary correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says that the vacancy in the War Cabinet, caused by the resignation of Sir Edward Carson, will not be filled immediately. DISTURBANCE IN GALWAY. RAID TO SEIZE ARMS. A. and N.Z. . LONDON, Jan. 23. Twenty disguised men raided two houses near Galway and held up the occupants at the revolver's point. They took two shotguns, a duckgun, a rifle, and a bag of ammunition, which they declared they wanted for the next rising. AMERICAN GUNBOAT SUNK. ACTION BY CHINESE. ' A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. It is officially announced that tho Government protests against tho Chinese torpedoing a United States gunboat on the Yangtso River, by which ono man was killed and two wounded. CLAIMS OF THE ENEMY. FRENCH ATTACK REPORTED (Received 8.10 p.m.) A. and Router. f LONDON. Jan. 23. A German official tireless message states: We beat back, by violent hand-to-hand fighting, a French attack norMi of Souain, and north-east of Avocourt, west of Verdun. AMERICAN WAR COUNCIL. PROSPECTS OF THE BILL. A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. The consensus of opinion is that owing to tho President's opposition tho War Council Bill will be defeated. IRISH PAPERS DEBARRED. ACTION BY AMERICA. A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. Jan. 23. Three Irish newspapers have been barred from the mails. AMERICAN OVERSEAS ARMY. ! ORIGINAL SIZE DOUBLED. « A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Mr. Wilson informed a deputation of Senators that America's overseas army in June would be twice the size originally planned. , PEACE DEMONSTRATION. ! GERMAN SOCIALIST MOVE. A. and N.Z. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 23. A meeting of the Fatherland Party at Cologne resulted in the Socialists rushing * the gathering and singing the " Marseillaise " until the police wore called in and c cleared the hall with their swords and 1 whips. The crowd left crying " Down t with Tirpitz; long live pe#ca!" 1