GENERAL CONTROVERSY IN PROGRESS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 82, 31 December 1917, Page 5

GENERAL CONTROVERSY IN PROGRESS

FIRM TONE IN FRANCE AND AMERICA \ TURKS PRESSED BACK ■ LATEST BRITISH COUP IN PALESTINE The enemy peace proposals made in the shape of a reply to Russian representations, at Brest Litovsk, receives a great deal of attention in the news to-day. Trots Icy, on behalf of the Bolshevik faction, is demanding that the Allies should forthwith state their terms, but there are further indications that the Bolsheviki are almost at an. end of their tether. Allied opinion upon the pioposals submitted by Count Czernin at Brest Litovsk appears to bo summed up in the statement that though probably genuine they are unsatisfactory. American commentators are particularly outspoken in accusing the enemy of intriguing for an inconclusive peace. Tlio Italians report that fighting on the Asiago Plateau, where tho enemy lately developed a formidable'offensive, has declined into minor engagements. The West front is snowbound, but one report speaks of an abnormal traffic through Belgium. Successful fighting is reported in Palestine, where General troops have effected another consider- ' able advance. The Admiralty r.nn ounces the loss of three British destroyers, with heavy loss of He. They were mined or torpedoed off the Dutch coast.