BRITISH LABOUR AND PEACE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17059, 11 August 1917, Page 5

BRITISH LABOUR AND PEACE.

SUGGESTED BASIS OF PRO=

GRAMME.

Received August 10, 8.40 p.m. LONDON, August 10. The committee of the Labour 'executive has issued a report suggesting

a basis for the British Labour Party's peace ' views. The report is to be presented atf Friday's conference, discussed at a special conference in London on August 21st, and finally submitted to the Allied Labour and Socialist Conferences. The report welcomes the Russian declaration against annexation and indemnities and urges further de- , mocratisation of all countries as a means'of preventing future war. Tt declared that peace conditions should foremosfoly include reparation to Belgium, payment for all damage and complete restoration and independence; also the restoration of Serbia and Montenegro, and the solving of the Balkan question by means of an international commission on the basis of free national choice, plus a Balkan federation; also the restoration of Alsace-Lorraine. Peace terms should include satisfaction for Italy's legitimate interests in the Adriatic and Aegean; .the i liberation of Palestine; the administration of Armenia, Mesopotamia and Arabia; also tropical Africa by a commission representing, a Leagueof Nations; the. application 'to all other disputed cases (including! „ 'Luxemburg and Poland) of the principle of free national choice. The report denounces economic war after the war by tariffs or otherwise, considering that the alliance o% military imperialists' and fiscal protectionists in any country is a grave menace to peace, but the right, of each nation to defend its economic interests cannot be denied. Guilty governments "and individuals should be punished for culpable acts, notably inhuman submarine war- > fer. '