SUGGESTED PEACE TERMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17040, 23 December 1918, Page 7

SUGGESTED PEACE TERMS.

POPULAR AMERICAN VIEW.

SECURITY OF ThE PACIFIC.

SUPPORT FOR DOMINIONS.

Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. (H«cd. 0.16 p.m.) NEW YORK. Dec. 21

Great interest has been aroused by the peace terms suggested by the National Committee of Patriotic Societies of the United States, having a membership of 2,500,000. The terms which were promulgated through the efforts of Mr. Edward Harding, a member of the New York Bar, were directly influenced by the views of Mr. W. M. Hughes and Mr. W. F. Massey on Pacific affairs. The terms are:

1. Restitution of all indemnities levied and properties taken by the Central Powers.

2. Reparation and indemnities by the Central Powers for damage done on land and sea.

3. The Central Powers to pay the cost of the war. Servia, Belgium, and France to bo paid first. The Allies to control the finances of the Central Powers until the money is paid. 4. Restoration of Alsace-Lorraine to Franco and Italia Irredenta to Italy. 5. The release of lands under Turkish role, and their reorganisation under allied protection. 6. Allied control of the Dardanelles. 7. Servia, Montenegro, Albania, Roumania and Greece to receive the territories which are rightfully theirs. 8. Independence for Poland, and for the Czechoslovaks and Jugoslavs. 9. A plebiscite to determine whether Schleswig Holstein shall bo returned to Denmark, and Luxemburg be joined to Belgium or Franco or remain independent. 10. Restoration of order in Russia and freedom from Gorman encroachment.

11. No return of the German colonic*. 12. Allied control of Kiel Canal and Heligoland.

13. The abrogation of the Bucharest and Brest Litovsk Treaties.

14. The surrender of the navies of the Central Powers to the Allies.

15. The punishment of the ox-Kaiser and others responsible for the war and the violation of The Hague Conventions. 16- The formation of a League of Nations, and the establishment of international arbitration.

17. The Central Powers not to be admitted to the League until they havo paid all their obligations.

18. The control of raw materials by the Allies or League of Nations until the Central Powers are admitted to the

League. The committee in connection with the publication of the terms gives prominence to the opinions of Mr. Hughes and Mr. Massey on a Monroe Doctrine for the Pacific.