ANOTHER GERMAN ULTIMATUM

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 123, 16 February 1918, Page 7

ANOTHER GERMAN ULTIMATUM

1- ' * -TROTSKY UNDER GERMAN SUSPICION 8 y '.'.■•...'. ' ;i ;■ •"> 3' ' ~ \ INCREASING ACTIVITY IN- THE WEST; I': FRENCH SUCCESS IN ! :■■ CHAMPAGNE .■■■•'■ 1' ' '.•' • • ■ • ...'.-.■ ■ . • t : '_ L ■ "■' ' ." I •" I ' '■'•:■• i The situation between the Central Empires and Russia—Bol- ' .■'... shevik Russia, that is—is developing akmg lines that promise a rej .; ~ newal of hostilities, if the various dispatches to-day truthfully repre- ■ ' "' sent the position. Trotsky is strongly . suspected by Germany of ', '.playing false. The demobilisation order has been cancelled, and it is- : .'- > suspected in Germany that a-Bolshevik army is being organised [ , behind the lines, with a hostile pur pose in view. 'If it means an invasion of the. Ukraine, Germany must, it is said, safeguard her food supplies irom that region by necessary action. .Poland also is virtually at war with Bolshevik Russia. The Western front is becoming in- , creasihgly active. The Germans have been, heavily bombarding the -'• Yser front.- On the French line our Allies, assisted by the Americans, . achieved a smart coup as the result of an energetic raid on a German salient position. The political and military situation in London con- ' tinues to be well aired in Press and Parliament. : Sir William Robertson has not resigned, but, it is stated, his authority has been modified to suit the exigencies of the new situation which has been evolved by the creation of .the Supreme War Council at Versailles.