GERMANY AND AUSTRIA

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145998, 3 December 1917, Page 3

GERMANY AND AUSTRIA

GERMAN PEACE INTRIGUES. WELCOMED IN'HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, Dec.,T. Baron von Hertling’s speech orabiy impressed the Dutch newspapers. It is interpreted'to mean that‘the Central Powers arc prepared' to make peace without annexations, giving grounds Tor hoping that the' war will end before "the winter'is past. •Newspapers comment on Born Lansdowne’s letter as a hopeful message that may lead to an early ending of the insanity of continuous bloodshed. In the'Roichstag. von KiitMa&nn/referring ’ to 1 the Russo-German 'peacei pourparlers, said the German policy would 'be. ‘guided by firm but 1 moderate statesmanship, based upon facte. .He spoke vaguely about the reorganisation of affairs in the East. The Government were fully taking account of their/ rights to determine Germany's own destinies' with -the qualification .that permanent and essential RusseGefm&n/inteiests must’be-safeguarded. He declared that the 'rumours that Roumania had offered to negotiate for peace were not confirmed. The German Fatherland party have petitioned the Reiclfstag 'to "oppose " a 'general truce,'believing it to'bdadvantageous to England. LORD LANODOwNE’S LEftfel*. AMSTERDAM, Nov. S 5. The German papers publish Lord Lansdowne’s letter on them front pages. They consider it is the beginning of reasonableness in England. The letter has caused general satisfaction in Germany. where it is regarded as a-semi-official feeler. . „