PEACE TALK.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12065, 21 July 1917, Page 9

PEACE TALK.

'IHE STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE. PASSPORTS REFUSED. Australian and N.Z. Cabta Association. (Received July 31, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, July 20. Mr Balfour has informed tho Irish Trade Union Congress and the Labour Party that passports cannot be granted to their delegates to Stockholm. j | A BULGARIAN PEACE MISSION, j "NOT AT WAR WITH US." i KAISER UTILISES SOCIALIST j LEADER- ! i i i Australian ar-? *-Z. C*.bl« Association. j (Received July 21, 1.40 p.m.) , PETROGRAD. July 20. j A " Morning Post " Rome message j says that secret Bulgarian emissaries j have reached Switzerland with a view to sounding the Entente on tho question of a separate peace, with tho argument that the Bulgarians aro not really at war with its, only with Serbia. ' King Ferdinand initiated the mission. Tho Kaiser has sent tho Socialist j leader. M. Sakaroff, to beguilo their j allied and neutral comrades, while j three Bulgarian professors aro expect- j ed to insinuate themselves in profes- j sorial circles. j GERMAN PLOTTING. | j IIUN GOLD AND RUSSIAN AGITATORS. Australian N*.Z. Cablo Association- j (Received July 21. 1.40 p.m.) PETROGR AD. July 20. M. Penkratoff, the Socialist revolutionary, who spent fourteen years in the Soblussellbuvg convict prison, and M. Alcxinskv, who was a working class member of tho second Duma, in a manifesto declare that since May 29 the War Office ha* been aware that the pro-peaco agitation in Russia was due to German money; that officers of the ; German General Staif told an officer of a Siberian regiment that they had

been "deputed to agitate in the Russian rear; that thirl agitation was being car lied on by xho president, of tho Ukrainian allianco for tho emancipation of Ukrane and by Lenin. A crowd on Wednesday pillaged tho offices of the Leninist organ, " Pravda.' 1 Subsequently M. Polvteeff ordered tho soldiers to occupy the ' Pravda " office, j Tho Provisional Government lias disconnected all telephone connection with the Leninist offices and dwellings throughout Kronstadt.