RUMANIA AGREES TO AN ARMISTICE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 65, 10 December 1917, Page 5

RUMANIA AGREES TO AN ARMISTICE

■ 'new development in the peace intrigue HOSTIUTIES CEASE AT THE GATES OF JERUSALEM LATEST BRITISH SUCCESS IN PALESTINE DESPERATE FIGHTING ON THE ITALIAN FRONT . ■Rumania has agreed to an armistice with Germany, and hostilities have been suspended along tho whole front. Tho Rumanian Premier (M. Bratiano) has announced that Parliament will meet on December 15. It is reported that tho Germans lave offered a peaco based on the cession of the Dodrudja to Bulgaria, Rumania meanwhile to be given Bessarabia. The situation in Russia is more chaotic than ever. > The Bolshevik leaders in their fanatical zeal to enthrone anarchy in the name of democracy have decreed the abolition of tho Law Courts and tho lawyers, annulled their country's loans from the ' Allies, and stopped the payment of interest. Trotsky has addressed a Note to the Allies fixing December 12 for a reply to his question as to their willingness or otherwise/to participate in peaco negotiations.' Germany, it is stated, has:offered Russia peace without indemnities on certain commercial conditions. On the Italian front the warfare on tho Aeiago Plateau is reaching a terrifio intensity, due to the enormous pressure of the Austro-German masses, which have forced by sheer weight of numbers a flank retirement. There are ' no new developments on the West. The British are now solidly established on their new line—which is in front of the Hindenburg line-and are ready for anything that might befall. British successes are reported from Palestine—where the troops are now before the gates of Jerusalem—and inMesopotamia.