GENERAL NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 17736, 14 August 1917, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS

THE LABOUR CONGRESS. AND THE STOCKHOLM DECISION. NOT A SIGN OF WAR WEAKNESS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (The Times.) LONDON, August 13. Received August 13, 9.30 p.ni. Mr J. H. Thomas, Labour M.P., speaking at Cardiff, said he interpreted Friday’s decision not as a sign of war weakness, but of the determination of Labour that peace should not be made behind the back of the people. The cable news in this issue accredited to The Times has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such the editorial opinion of The Times.

DISAPPOINTMENT IN FRANCE. A STRONG LEAD EXPECTED. LONDON, August 13. Received August 13, 9.30 p.m. The Times’ Paris correspondent states that the events in London have bewildered and disappointed the French. Socialists largely hoped that a strong British lead would result on their part in a decision against the Stockholm Conference. RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT’S ATTITUDE. NOT OPPOSED TO THE CONFERENCE. LONDON, August 13. Received August 14, 1.10 a.m. Russian delegates in London declare that there is no evidence that M. Kerensky opposes the conference at Stockholm. The Russian Government cannot officially support, the conference, but is not opposed to it. STATUS OF THE CONFERENCE. RESOLUTIONS NOT BINDING. LONDON, August 13. Received August 14, 1.10 a.m. The Daily News correspondent at Stockholm states that Huysmans, one of the organisers of the conference, opposes the view that the resolutions should be binding, and adds that they could only become binding if confirmed by the organisations represented. WAR RESPONSIBILITY NOT TO BE A TOPIC. QUESTION UNPALATABLE TO GERMANY. AMSTERDAM, August 13. Received August 14, 1.10 a.m. A semi-official message from Berlin states that if the responsibility for the war is placed on the agenda paper at Stockholm certain Socialists will probably not attend. PEACE VIEWS. FORMULA OF FRENCH SOCIALISTS. LONDON, August 13. Received August 13, 9.30 p.m. French Socialists define their peace terms as including evacuation, restoration, and indemnification of invaded territories, consultation with the peoples in disputed territories, including Alsace and Lorraine. Leaders desire all nations, neutrals and belligerents, to participate in the peace conference, which will be a constituted assembly of the society of national Socialists. They declare that peace will not come until there has been a democratic revolution in Germany.