Peace Talk

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 28, 29 December 1917, Page 5

Peace Talk

! THE ALLIES' ACTIONS. FROM THE ENEMY VIEWPOINT. I Press Association—Copyright, Australian- and N.Z. Cable Association (Received 10.30 a.m.) I Stockholm, December 28. Herr Branting, in a remarkable article in the Social Democraten, says It is out of the question that the AU lies should reject the 'Austro-Germa.nl ; peace offer outright. The Allies in! I the past year have given over-much rein to Imperialistic influence, and it is high time this was corrected. Allied'statesmen .neglected the revision of their war aims, which ought to~ have been a self-evident duty, and was demanded by the whole of revolutionary Russia after the unmasking lof the secret treaties.

If the, Allies coldly reject the offer the peoples of the world will regard it as a critical and foolish act. Once discussions are begun, the world's* opinion will demand that they bifollowed up.

HUNS CO COMICALLY MAD. GENERAL EXCITEMENT. Press Association—Copyright, Anstra lian and N.Z. Cable Association ' London, December 20. The Amsterdam correspondent of the. "Express" quotes a neutral banker who has just come from Berlin as saying: "Germany is intoxicated with peace. I never saw the Berliners like it. News of the Russian armistice filled every German with a comic sort el madness. The newspapers are warning the people that the fighting is not over, but the Germans will not listen. They say a treaty of peace with Russia will force the other enemies to come round."