GERMAN SOCIALISTS' PEACE PROPOSALS.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 10 May 1917, Page 1

GERMAN SOCIALISTS' PEACE PROPOSALS.

SUBMITTED TO THE WORKMENNS

COUNCIL

(Renter's Telegrams.)

(Received May 9, 9.50 p.m.)

Petrograd, May 9

At a meeting of the executive of the Workmen's ...arid Soldiers' Delegates, M. Borgbejerg,. representing the Labour parties of Scandinavia-, transmitted the pe.aee terms proposed by tho German Socialist party majority group, namely, the right of freedom for national development; compulsory arbitration in future international disputes; restitution by Germany of occupied territory; a plebiscite in Russian Poland on the question of independence or German or Russian annexation; -restoration of independence to Belgiiam, Serbia, and Roumania: restoration to Bulgaria of the Bulgarian: districts in Macedonia; the grunt to

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Serbia of a free port on the Adriatic; and an amicable .rectification of the Lorraine frontier.

The minority group of Socialists propose more liberal terms.

The executive promised early diseuesion of the proposals.