UNITED STATES

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144712, 22 June 1915, Page 3

UNITED STATES

A PROSECUTION FOR PERJURY-. LONDON, Jane 20, Stahl, a Gorman reservist, declared he saw guns on the Lusitania. He has been indicted at New York on a charge of perjury. MR. BRYAN STILL TALKING. ARBITRATION ON THE BRAIN. (Received Juno 22, D.O a.m.) NEW YORK, Juno 21. Mr. Bryan, in elaborating tho reasons for his resignation, outlines a plan for tho restoration of peace. He argues that neutral nations should crystallise their sentiment in favour of peace into a coercive force and offer mediation, either jointly or severally; that the warring nations should join m a treaty providing for investigation by a permanent international commission of every dispute arising and that the advocates of peace should undertake a world-wide educational movement to cultivate a spirit of brotherhood among He holds that peace oould.be restored at any time now if tho partitapants aro really weary of the war. It any nation is not ready let its rulers state in dear and definite terms the conditions on which they are willing to accept peace; then the continuance of the war will he chargeable against those making nnnsual demands. He declares that it is the duty of tho United States to discard all ceremony and proffer mediation until her offer or some other is accepted, Mr. Bryan, addressing a Labour peace meeting, attacked Messrs. Roosevelt and Taft as leaders and sponsors of an organisation standing for force in international affairs, which is inimical to the truo.in.tcxofits-.pf the United .States. _ ...