TURKISH PEACE OFFERS REPORTED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2733, 30 March 1916, Page 5

TURKISH PEACE OFFERS REPORTED

REJECTED BY ALLIES PIRATES SINK MORE SHIPS A statement by the Admiralty discloses a score by the British ' light cruisers on Saturday night, when a squadron\of German destroyers was engaged, one of them being rammed and sunk. On the Western front the British,, in the face of a heavy bombardment, have tenaciously held ,on to the ground they won on the St. Eloi-Ypres front. A desperate attack by German waves of infantry at Malancourt has been successfully withstood, the enemy suffering severely. The reports ' from the Russian front are very conflicting, but, to quote from the dispatch of a war correspondent, the preponderance is with the Russians, whose offensive strategy iB oripplirig the German plan of action, The British, in Egypt, have organised and carried out a dashing desert air raid on a Turkish advance post, one of the aviators descend- . ing low enough to rake the Turkish encampment with his maohine- . gun. , A circumstantial story by a "Daily News" representative relates that Turkey has made peace offers to the Allies' Ministers at Athens, and the reply, according to the "News" correspondent, has been to the effect that the proposals were turned down by the Allies. The methods of the Huns in their latest pirate warfare are creating •an increasing disgust amongst the neutrals, and a pertinent ques- , tion has been addressed to President Wilson on the subject—how ■ many American citizens will require to be killed before the United States Government considers iteelf justified in making a protest by force of arms. Meanwhile, more steamers are being sunk. ' ' 1