PEACE PROPOSALS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15130, 26 January 1917, Page 2

PEACE PROPOSALS.

REPLY TO PRESIDENT WILSON. MR BONAR. LAW SPEAKS OUT. (Reuter Telegram.) LONDON, Jaenuary 25. Mr Bonar Law, speaking at Bristol, and replying to President Wilson’s speech, declared that the German’s socalled peace offer received the Allies’ only possiole reply. “We believe the essence of this conflict is the question which is as old as time, namely, the difference between right and wrong. We know this is a war of naked aggression, that the crimes which accompanied the conduct' of the war—which were unknown in the world for centuries—are small compared with the initial crime of plunging the world into war by cold-blooded calculation, because those responsible thought it would pay. Our aim coincides with President Wilson’s—an effort to secure the present and future peace of the world. It is not right to regard President Wilson’s effort in regard to a League of Peace as altogether Utopian. The subject is not an abstract qnuestion for the future, but a question of life and death is now proceeding.” Mr Bonar Law dwelt on the past efforts which had been made to render war impossible/ or, at least, to mitigate its horrors. “We rejected the German negotiations, offer because peace now would mean peace based on German victory and leave the military machine unbroken, with a halo of success surrounding it. The controllers of that machine would again prepare for war, choosing a convenient time to begin. What President Wilson is longing for, we are fighting for/ Our men are risking their lives for it and we mean to secure it.” SWEDISH PRESS VIEWS. (Australian nnd N.Z- -Cable Services.) STOCKHOLM, January 24. Newspapers of both parties interpret President Wilson’s speech as antagonistic to the Entente.