GERMAN DESIRE FOR PEACE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11619, 10 July 1916, Page 5

GERMAN DESIRE FOR PEACE.

NATIONAL COMMITTEE FORMED. CONSERVATIVE IDEA OF GERMAN NEEDS. Amsterdam, July 9. Prince Wedel, under Count Vou Bethmann Hollweg’s auspices, /has * formed a national rcommittee advocating an honourable and lasting peace. The committee includes prominent industrialists and agriculturalists. The Conservative newspapers are indignant, and bitterly assail the Governent; for (giving the committee semi-official sanction. They declare, that Germany needs a gloriously decisive peace, not so- ; called reasonable peace. EXCITING RESCUE OF FRENCH SUBMARINE CREW. Paris, July 7. A communique reveals an exciting story of the rescue of the crew of the French submarine La Fourche after the vessel de Missina. Although was broken in jijvo, : only 19 of the crew were drOwned. The’commandex ordered the surviyors to don lifeand then dived into the sea; * They swam for four hours, keeping together, the best swimmers helping * the others, all singing ‘‘The Marseil-. iaise. ” An Italian cruiser 'rescued i them, not a man amongst she heroic swimmers being lost. IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS. .' 'London, July, 8. The Daily Chronicle says the Right Hon. J. S. Montagu becomes Minister of Munitions, Mr Tennant .Scottish Secretary, and Mr McKinnon Wood Chancellor of the'. Duchy ct Lancaster and Secretary to the Treasury. BOMBARDMEI/r OF SMYRNA.! Salonika, July 9. ; Travellers state, that in retaliation to bombardment of Smyrna, leading British residents have been interned at Urfa, in Mesopotamia. Two arbauTfistricts of tbejTmltish quarter in Smyrna were, burned, SSOO-people .