THE SOCIALIST PEACE CONFERENCE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11470, 23 February 1918, Page 5

THE SOCIALIST PEACE CONFERENCE.

DOMINIONS NOT REPRESENTED. A MATTER FOR YOUNG DEMOCRACIES. (Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association fLondon. Feb. 21. Tne Daily Chronicle says: The SocialistCouferoKce maybe important if it agrees to a common declaration. A similar conference last year proved merely a polyglot chaos, but considerable progress has since been made. It is regrettable that America. Australia, and South Africa are not represented, especially because British Labour's extraEuropean proposals are the weakest feature of their war aims. How could the young democracies of South Africa, Australia. New Zealand and of the American Pacific Coast enjoy peaceful development and freedom in the future in the face of the menace of German aggression 'i

SOCIALISTS’ DEMAND. ACCEPTANCE OF PEACE PRINCIPLES. Berne. Feb. 2h The Socialists in the Austrian Reichstrath demand that the Government accept the peace principles of President Wilson’s speech and forthwith begin negotiations for a general peace. SELF-STYLED UNIQUE GATHERING. TO DECIDE THE WAR. London, Feb. 21. The real business of the interAllied Labour and Socialist Conference has been postponed owing to the non-arrival of tho French, Italian and Serbian delegates. Only the British, Belgian and Roumanian were represented. Mr Ogden, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade’s Union (Congress, presided. He described the gathering as unique and tho lirst evidence of the workers’ determination to take a deciding part in the war.