THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13895, 22 October 1918, Page 5

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS

AMERICAN PRESS WELCOMES MR WILSON'S REPLY TO AUSTRIA. MUST YIELD TO PRESSURE FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT. \\if--u-R STEP TOWARDS CENTRAL POWERS' UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) Received October 21, 7.15 p.m. NEW YORK, October 20. The New York newspapers welcome Mr Wilson's reply to Austria. They point, out that Austria is breaking up, and has no choice but to yield to the pressure of her own subject peoples and the Entente. Some newspapers view the Note as but another step towards the Central Powers' unconditional surrender. The New York Times' Washington correspondent says that if Germany reserves the right to continue submarining the United States will nut answer further Notes. ALLIES URGED TO FRAME COMPLETE PROGRAMME OF PEACE REQUIREMENTS. LATEST GERMAN REPLY AGREES TO THE EVACUATION OF BELGIUM. RUTHLESS SUBMARINING MADE NECESSARY BY BRITAIN'S BLOCKADE. GERMANY ASSERTS HER RIGHT TO -SELF-DETERMINATION WITHOUT OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) Received October 21, 7.ft>p.m. LONDON, October 21. II is significant that articles in several of the Ministerial newspapers warmly approve of Mr Wilson's Notes, but claim that Britain and other Allies should not be silent. They emphasise the need of joint action and demand that Mr Lloyd George should frame a complete British programme correspondent with the Empire's sacrifices, and then ask the Allies to give the same support to our claims as we give to theirs. The full text of Germany's reply is not yet available, but an unofficial summary circulated in Amsterdam is as follows: Germany con.se.nts to the evacuation of Belgium, and urges that negotiations Hoarding the evacuation, which will probably last months, should begin immediately/ The Note protests regarding Mr Wilson's allegations of cruelties, about which he had received one-sided information. Germany was compelled to adopt ruthless submarining owing to England's hunger blockade. If passenger ships were mistakenly torpedoed and women and children the Oovernment desires to point out that the blockade caused thousands of women and children and grey-haired men to starve. However, in the interests of peace, the Oovernment is disposed to stop the submarine war until further notice, in reference to .Mr Wilson's last point, the Note draws attention to the alterations in the, Constitution and repudiates outside interference, since Germany has the right of self-determination. TURKEY AND AUSTRSA MUST SECURE A SPEEDY PEACE. MILITARY PARTY AGAIN CAINS THE ASCENDANCY IN (iEB.MANY. Received October 21, 11.35 p.m. AMSTERDAM. October 21. The Tac-eblatt, in admitting that Turkey is so militarily threatened that she must make peace and that Austria-Hungary requires' a s| ly peace, attacks the military "die hards," the supporters of Reventlow and other panGermans, who are attempting to fan the llanies of belligerency f.. a while heat again. The paper believes that they have regained the ascendency. ARMY MARCHING ON CONSTANTINOPLE TO DEMAND PEACE. (The Times.) Received October 21, 11.35 p.m. BERNE. October 21. La Suisse learns from a trustworthy source that an army of about 15.000 is marching on Constantinople to cry for peace.