UNEASY COMMENT IN BRITISH PRESS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 123, 11 February 1918, Page 5

UNEASY COMMENT IN BRITISH PRESS

DEMAND FOR FULLER INFORMATION ■<(,'- . ■ j .... '.. "»'.' ' "spring offensive in ; ■ THE WEST WHAT WILL THE GERMANS DO? ri"DT?AT TEAT QHTWTXT Tl1I , 1[?1?AT PTPPABTW& : ■ : -tibrUiiiM) The offc-criticised . Colonel Repington has sent a dispatch from •' Paris to the "Morning Post" (which he recently joined from'' "The Times") hinting darkly at the "strange character" of the decisions of the Supreme War Council at Versailles with regard to the control of the British troops in the field, and insisting that Parliament should be told about them, with a view of having them examined and reported upon by the British General Staff. Colonel Eepington'a demand is reinforced by the excited comments of other London newspapers, an exception being the London "Standard," which pooh-poohs ''he whole thing. The military situation in the West is becoming animated with the passing of the acute stage of the winter season, and, according to Mr. Philip Gibbs, the' great topic of discussion in the dug-outs is the answer to the oft-repeated question: What will the Germans try this time? Opinions vary between a colossal offensive on one part of the front, and an offensive consisting of a number of attacks in force, but subsidiary to a main attack at one particular point. Reuter's .correspondent at, French Headquarters states that the Verdun region has been an active battle seotor during the past week, the fury of the German attacks recalling the violence of their great 1916 offensive, which, by the way, was initiated towards the end of the month of February. The Germans are reported to have signed a peace with the Ukraine, and to be manoeuvring for a separate peace with Rumania. Meanwhile, ' from another source, we are told that the Bolsheviki have sustained a damaging defeat at the hands of the Ukrainians, suffering heavy losses, particularly of war material. The Germans are said by the New York "World" to he planning a submarine offensive in the Paoific.