PEACE TALK.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16432, 2 January 1918, Page 5

PEACE TALK.

g> J COMMENTS. 1 -;'r United' Service. - Received 8.35 p.m., Jan/ i st . "' ' r /- •• LONDON, Dec: 31. • J' lo '"jManchester Guardian" states that tho agreement made at Brest | Litovsk Represents tlio__tarins of a separate peace upon which tho Bolshevikiare determined if tlio Allies refuse to join in- a general peace. Russia! hap surrendered all claim to territories I withou* securing moro than a colourable appearance of liberty for tho inhabitants. Russia is lost as an Ally. Some newspapers suggest that after such gains in the east Germany will make surrender more easily in tho west and south, but all agree that the -Allies' own terms remain unchanged. ALLIES WILL REPLY TO CZEKNIN .It is announced that the Allies in--tond a serious reasoned reply to Count Czornin. • ' ;v Mr Lloyd George is going to Paris-, »to.-confer ..with M. Cleanenceau. / . ITALY CANNOT ACCEPT. ■:> . "Giornale d'ltalia. considers Count Czernin's proposals absolutely .unacceptable-. Italy, after her heroio s.ftcrifiocs, cannot accept the unsatisfactory frontiers of 1866. A PRACTICAL^EFFECT. V ' OP BOLSHEVIK PLAN. COPENHAGEN, Deo. 31. Austrian merchantmen, aggregating 14,000 tons, have been rc~ i leased at Russian ports. ' UNITED STATES ATTITUDE. Australian and N.2T. Cable Assn. Received 11.30 p.m., Jan. Ist. •WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. . Tho Stale Department has indicated' its intention to answer tho German misropresentafbious in its peaco terns, j It- is believed that the United Statesi i will replx with tho. Allies- 1