PEACE INTRIGUES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16824, 1 December 1916, Page 2

PEACE INTRIGUES.

LONDON, November 29

In the House _of Commons Mr MacNeill suggested that, with the object of counteracting peace intrigues,, the Allies should publicly de Clare,that they will,not cease fighting while the Germans occupy any Allied territory. Mr Bonar Law said the question was one for the Allies in concert. The advisability of the suggested amendment was doubtful, because it might be taken to mean that that was* all we asked.

The Times says the latest American peace campaign is the most influential yet launched. Jacob Ux-hieffy,-head of the great New York hanking house oi the Kuhin Loeb Company, and James Speyer, the brother of Sir Edgar Speyer, are pullinathe strings, and in common with immense political and financial resources, are endeavouring to work up a peace feeling of sufficiently great influence in Congress. The Time? 3 Washington says that although the active pro-Ger-manism behind the movement makes the great bulk of American opinion suspicious, there is an increasing section of American intellectuals who are convinced that the time has come for peace. The Times, commenting, points out that German agents are enabled to use American Peace Leagues for their own ends, because neutral countries think that the British. Government's weakness and indecision reflects public opinion. They believe thjat the war has tired t^e people ofethe Empire, and that they acquiesce in the Cabinet's weakness and indecision. The Times concludes by emphasising the fact that the -whole Empire is stern and unalterable in its decision to continue the war till the Prussian menace has "been utterly crushed, and therefore that American, interference is unthinkable. NEW YORK, November 29.

The New York Times Berlin correspondent reports that financiers / are making the most elaborate plans to regain tra<Je after the war, including a far-reaching amalgamation, scheme embracing the largest shipping, iron, and coal-owners, including Krupps, Stices, the Norddeutscher Llloyds, and Ham-burg-Amerika.