PEACE TALK.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16309, 10 August 1917, Page 9

PEACE TALK.

BRITISH TERMS. BALKAN NATIONS MUST BE FREED. AN ESSENTIAL CONDITION. (Reuters Telegrams.) LONDON, August 8. Mr .Lloyd George, speaking at the Serbian Society's luncheon, after paying tribute to Serbia's part in the wax, said: —"Serbia, which had been covered with the dirt of Turkish barbarism, was about to be cleansed. The first condition of peace was the complete restoration of Serbia, without any reservation. British honour was involved in seeing that Serbia was freed." M. Passitch, replying, said: —""Germany now spoko of an honourable peace. Such a peace was only securablo if the peoples under the AustroGennan rule were set free, if the unity cf the Serbs, Croats and Slavines were achieved, if the Czechs and Slovaks were united and independent, if the Polish and R.uthenian questions were solved, then, and only then, will an honourable. peace be secured. REICHSTAG RESOLUTION. CONCOCTED TO SUIT SOCIALISTS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. AMSTERDAM, August 8. Speaking at Augsburg Herr Fehrenliack, the mover of the peace resolution in the Reichstag on Jidy 20, admitted that the political leaders concocted tie resolution, at Herr Scheidemanil's suggestion, in order to enable the Socialists to reassure their constituents and vote for the war credits. ' PROFESSORS ANGRY. PEACE OFFERS SHOULD CEASE. t Seventy-eight professors of the Bonn University signed a petition urging Germany never to make another peace offer as England had answered the recent ones by a challenge that Germany must first retire behind the Rhine.