PROCLAMATION BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 116, 2 February 1918, Page 9

PROCLAMATION BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT

AIR RAID ON PARIS ITALIANS IMPROVE THEIR' POSITION RUMANIANS INVADE BESSARABIA To-day's the Italian front give a clearer indication of the nature of the'coup achieved by bur Allies. The element of surprise as an important factor in military operations was fully • exploited by the Italians with complete success, the Austrian ranks being thrown into a state of panic. A revival of the artillery activity is apparent in the dispatches from t\ie -West front, but there is still no fighting of any great importance. The. Americans now hold a definite and permanent sector on the Western front, and have already been called on to protest their lines from invasion, A new element is developing in the Russian situation. The Rumanian troops, welcomed by Bessarabia, have entered that country, and jouied up with the troops of the Russian South-Western armies. The German strike crisis has spread, and called forth from, the Government a proclamation which is half-appeal, half-threat. The strikers aro now estimated at' over a million, and works of the utmost importance to the German War Staff aro held up. President Wilson has delivered . an encouraging spcech to the American farmers, in which ho appeals to them to, uphold and press forward the cause of the Allies and freedom. "We must and shall win!" he declares. "The culminating crisis of the war is at hand."