GERMANY MUST NOT BE TRUSTED.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 896, 23 December 1916, Page 9

GERMANY MUST NOT BE TRUSTED.

ALLIES WILL SECURE LASTING PEACE. WAR-MAKERS TO BE OVERTHROWN. Ttcxiter's Telegrams. (Received December 23, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, December 22. In the House of Commons Mr Bonar Law (Chancellor of the Exchequer) said that the nation was suffering terrible agony because it had trusted Germany. lie asked, could a promise of peace be more binding than the treaty to protect the neutrality of Belgium ? What would be the position if peace were settled on the German basis of a victorious army! /'The dangers and miseries from which the world is suffering,'' said Mr Bonar Law, "are only curable by making the Germans realise that frightfulness does not pay. We are fighting for the security and peace of incoming times. The war will have been fought vainly unless it is made sure that no single man or group of men will be able to plunge the world into the miseries of war." ME BONAR LAW'S PASSIONATE SPEECH. UNMISTAKABLE REPLY TO - PEACE-MONGERS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 23, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, December 22. Mr Bonar Law's short impromptu speech was fervid and passionate in its intensity. It is regarded as an indirect but unmistakable reply to President Wilson's Note. EMPIRE WILL STILL CARRY ON WAR. SIGNIFICANT PASSAGE rN KING'S SPEECH. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 23, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, December 22. The King's Speech at the prorogation of Parliament exhorts the Empire to prosecute the war with a single endeavour to vindicate international rights violated by the enemy, and to reestablish European security. INTENSE INDIGNATION IN CANADA. AMERICA PLACES HERSELF OUT OF COURT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. / (Received December 23, 11.5 a.m.) OTTAWA, DecemUr 92. Intense indignation against. President Wilson's Peace Note is expressed in Canada. The newspapers bitterly comment on President Wilson's suggestion that he is acting in the name of humanity, asking what he ever did for the benefit of humanity in this Avar. It is generally regarded that the Note will preclude the United States from having a single word to say when real peace negotiations begin. DISSENSION AMONGST CENTRAL POWERS. DISAGREEMENT OVER TERMS OF PEACE. RECEPTION OF NOTE DEMORALISES THE PEOPLE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received December 23, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 22. The Rome correspondent of the "'Daily Telegraph" reports that information from German sources indicates a disagreement amongst the enemy countries over peace conditions. Austria and Bulgaria are the most intractible, but Turkey is prepared to make sacrifices. In consequence of this discord, Germany has merely asked for a conference. The Note was intended to demoralise the. Entente's people, but its reception is demoralising the peoples of the Central Powers.