PEACE NEGOTIATIONS DEMANDED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 124, 12 February 1918, Page 7

PEACE NEGOTIATIONS DEMANDED

HORRIFYING BARBARITIES THE' GATHERING STORM IN THE WEST •fy V:-'. Germany 'has delivered a-n iilti matum—which expired on Saturday —demanding from Rumania immediate negotiations for peace. The result has not yet transpired. Apart from this new development, there is very little news from Eussia. A dreadful story of the Red Terror in Finland depicts an unfortunate populace the helpless victims of tho blood lust of the Bolsheviki. The Red Guards 5 who appear to be utterly out of hand andcomplotely abandoned in their savage excesses, are shooting and killing indiscriminately. The situation 'in the West is still in a state of suspense, pending the development of events that will furnish the key to the campaign of 1918.' 'Die next few months, says Lord Heading, the new British Ambassador to the United States, will be the most critical of the war, and he voices the spirit of the nation in its contemplation of the coming struggle. A more reasonable spirit prevails amongst tho Clyde engineering and . shipbuilding trades over the Man-Power Bill, On the other side of the picture wo are told by a reputable correspondent that the internal condition of Austria and Germany is rapidly approaching collapse. Hunger, exhaustion, and disease are playing their part in bringing <" home to the Teutonic peoples the futility of the struggle against ever-increasing odds.