THE WAR.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11471, 25 February 1918, Page 8

THE WAR.

Second Edition

SOCIALIST OGNFEERNCB ENDED. \ COMPLETE A GREEMKNT REACHED. AIR SAAIEEL GOMPERS' VIEWS. United Press Asscciatiou —By Electrics Ti. tPgr a i h—Oopyr igh t, London, Feb. 2!. The inter Allied Socialist Conference has ended- It reached a complete '.greeuunit on war_ aims, ainl’is taking steps to notify its decisions to Socialist parties in the Central Emni res and is sending a Relegation to confer with President Wilson. Mr Gompers, at a farewell luncheon, Air Henderson presiding, expressed his relief that the conference had su: Stantislly accented British 1.-hour war aims cabled on the 3Uh December. Tiie conference had decided for tlie absolute freedom and integrity of Belgium, Servis, lloum uii-i, AloatenergO and that very territorial charge shell be based on justice and right making for rho permanence of the world’s peace. These are our irreducible minima. When secured wo desire to begin the fullest intercourse with all nations. We repudiate every attempt to institute an economic bovcott or the commercial or finuncid isolation of Germany. The couflic c:n only be eiuled_ in three ways, nauielv, by militarism, exhaustion or conciliation, and we are convinced tlmt ail belligerents must eventually resort to conciliation. Nothing wps further from the truth than the allegation that Labour was onlv concerned with holding out tlie' olive branch to the enemy. We will not negotiate with tlie olive branch while the enemy hand holds the sword. Both sides must be prepared to abandon militarism before a settlement is possible.

the repatriated from TURKEY. ESTIMATE OF THE TURK. I’RI’EL AND NOT A CLEAN FIGHTER. London, Feb. 24. Australian wounded men, repatriated from Turkey, endorsed tho stories of cruelty of tho Turks to prisoners and flatly contradict the sc item out that tho ’ urk is a clean ii,elder. Tho usual punishment for petty crime is to tie prisoners head downwards and feet lashed with rawhide whips The treatment in Austria, where the Australians staved some weeks. w;.s heaven compared Turkey. returned man declared that the Germans in Turkey were tho prisoners’ only friends, probably because the Turks hate the Germans and vice versa. The Germans regard whites as a tie between themselves and the Fatherland. GERMANS LEAVING TURKEY. RANK FINDS UP. Romo, Feb. 24. The TriV.una reports that numerous Gormans arc leaving Constantinople and Asiatic Turkey. German hanks'at Constantinople are winding up.