PEACE PROBLEM

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9756, 4 September 1917, Page 7

PEACE PROBLEM

PRESERVATION Of DEMOCRACY A SOCIALIST MANIFESTO, By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Australian and K.Z. Cable Association, LONDON, September 3, Mr A. Henderson, M. VanderveJdo, M. Thomas, and other British, Belgian, and French delegates to the Socialist Conference, have issued a manifesto in order to avoid a misunderstanding owing to the failure of the conference to agree on the principal questions. The manifesto states: A policy of Imperialist and antagonistic tendencies, which divide the capitalistic societies, caused the war. Victory for the German Imperialist will m^an the annihilation of democracy and liberty throughout the world. In© -Russian Revolution lias not yet stirred an uprising of the popular forces iu Austria and Germany. Instead, the now Russian democracy has been compelled to defend itsfelf against renewed aggression by the Czars of Vienna and Berlin. The Russian peace formula deals with a clearer definition of peace without indemnities, but this should not exclude just compensation for damaces. Peace without annexations cannot exclude disannexation of territories conquered by force, A war for right must not bo permitted to become a war of conquest. The Austuans and Germans cannot expect an effective etfort towards peace until they substitute for their present « o ™rnmcnto a democratic regime, which will seal the defeat of militarism. _lt will then °° the duty of the Socialists all over■ the world to prevent the Allied Governments crushing the new Austrian and erman democracies.

SOCIALISTS IN KOBE!

DANGER OF ENSLAVEMENT OF THE PEOPLE. . Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. STOCKHOLM, September 2. International. ; Socialists at Korea sent; congratulations on the initiation of a conference with the object,© bringing peace. . They, point out that as the Balkan questions precipitated the war, so Korean questions may provoke the, next war if Korea remains enslaved.

PEACE CONFERENCE AT CHICAGO

DISPERSED BY THE POLICE. Australian and N.Z. Cable, Association. NEW YORK, September 4. The People’s Council opened a Peac? Conference at Chicago, but the pohte quietly dispersed the gathering. 1 conference had been barred m tout States, and the Washington delegates state they will charter a ship and hold the conference in the Atlantic Ocean.

STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE

SOCIALISTS OF OENTOADPOWERS EAGER TO BEGIN.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 3, 9.30 p.m.) , ZURICH, September 0. Herr Scheidemann and Herr Ebert, representing the German Majority Socialists, attended a conference of Socialists of: the Central Voverz at Vienna. The meeting demanded: that the Stockholm Conference should be held without delay, and appealed, to the Dutch and Scandinavian Commits too to make arrangements te that ena. The meeting recommended that the question of responsibility for the war L excluded from the Stockholm deliberations. It urged Austria to . continue her peace efforts and to exercise pressure upon Germany, Bulgaria, and Turkey towards peace.

GERMAN LOOT ON THE SOMME

ABANDONED IN RETREAT,

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, PARIS, September 2. When, the Germans retreated from the Somme they abandoned a number of cases in a village containing valuable golden and silver chalices, bowls, vases, and pictures stolen from Belgium and North France..

THE GERMAN TRAWLERS

TAKEN BY SURPRISE. CARRIED SUPPLIES FOR SUBMARINES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Coprrltb' Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received September 3, 8.5 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, September 'M. In reference to the British torpedoboats’ engagement with German trawlers otf the Jutland coast, survivors state that the trawlers were carrying great quantities of food for submarines. Suddenly they discovered that British warships had surrounded them and their onjv escape was to reach Danish waters. The British fired 1600 rounds. Two German submarines and two seaplanes participated in the fight. The fate of the submarines is unknown. ■