The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-08-02
EihSBQNNt IS
BASIS
TO- open PEACE
NEGOTIATIONS.
win Ask British, Government TO
Outline Demands Which Will
Permit Of Discussion Which
May End Hostiitles
MARQUIS ONLY BRITISH !
PAclFlST STATESMAN
Considers Former Expressions
Obsolete - Wilson Beautiful
\ Painter Of GoldsRsAge But Not
/ Sufficiently Specific

Painter OF GOlden2Age But Not
Sufficiently Specific p.
II, ONION, August II (Asso-
~ ciated Pressl ~ In an open
letter which he, gave Is, the press
5esterday,the Marquis Of Lans-
IoYneSthe only British statesman
who, lis listed at home; and abroad
as a pacihst, formerly minister
without a portfolio in the British
cabinet in which he said that next
week he would move for a new
declaration of peace aims from
Great britain, at the same time
expressing the resolve that the
peace mast be an honorable one
and fighting must proceed until
such a peace was. obtainable., A
In this letter the Marquis of
!. Lansdowne says; n am convinc-
\ ID that there Is the deepest desire
|, or further explanations as to the
conditions upon WHICH we are pre-
pared, not to. make peace, but to
open a discussion that might lead
topeace' Cd.
The desire for peace, he said,
was growing in, the enemy coun-
tries and at the same time it was
"a question whether the purposes
of the Allies, as they. now c:Iist,
had been made understood. He
will at the same time reaffirm the
aesoIve not to desist, from the con-
.lict until an honorable peace can
be secured. ~ NJ - ~.
IMMENSE LOSSES
+, Ip explaining the. growing; de
sire foripeace, which he, said exist
Il with the Allicssas well as with
The Central, Powers, he referred
o the, casualties in the war hav-
ing been 100000 of whom T.
100000 had been killed and more
chan 100000 were prisoners or
missing.
Sooner than accept a .dishonor-
able peace, ,he Continued, I'VE
ire ready to fight on to the end.
Our statesmen bid us congra-
tuiate ourselves that we have un-
mistakaBly defined the terms ~
On WHICH We are prepared to
make peace. Has 1t been unmis-
fakablc?,, There has, been the
temptation to use vague language
and to slide oyer awkward queS
tons. The earlier versions Of the
Allies terms have become .obso
tcte. The people are asking if the
.uttcrances of Lloyd. George in his
speech Of January 5 last still stand
md if there can be no conversation
with the enemy until these are &C
ceptcd - ,.. o., ... .....
.r WILSON NOT CLEAR
Rcverting to the Fourth of. July
SPeceh of President, Wilson he in
1ieatod IN opinion that such speech
dwclt more in generalties than. actual
tiles, that it was remarkable Cor what
| IL omitS as we'll as for what II eon
trins. $50 ..
! cit us a splendid picture by q great
masterJi he said, "of. a g0lhen age
TO come after the war but it does not
seem to provide basis for pfelim
mary discussion. 1t is not, al outline
Of peace terms but nobly worked out
description of things for which tie
people Of the world are fighting. ~
q Commenting on the letter in, the
house of commons Foreign Munster
Balfour said that no enemy got ern
ment had recently approached the
Allies in reference to peace nsGot a.
tons. N"' r L.F-
The general reception of Lans,
downc g letter has beena apathetir aud
press comments consider his move as
4 in advised And III tinied,-t