GERMANS REFUSE ARMISTICE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 138, 28 February 1918, Page 5

GERMANS REFUSE ARMISTICE

.. INVADERS NEARING PETROGRAD

AMAZING SCENES AT THE CAPITAL

GERMAN SEA RAIDER WOLF

STORY OF PIRATICAL WANDERINGS

In spite of tho professions by the German Chancellor that pence negotiations aro possible on tho basis of the principles enunciated by President Wilson, Germany is turning a deaf ear to Eussia's requests for an armistice, 'and pressing forward in her. renewed invasion. It is stated that the enemy troops are rapidly closing on Petrograd, and though some reports speak of attempts to organise resistance, the Germans seem in fact to be advancing unopposed. Reports from the Western theatre speak of an increasing artillery bombardment, but disclose no othei development in that theatre. The Turks claim that they have entered Trebizond. In an interest-, ing and authoritative survey of campaign projects General Foch observes that the Germans may begin an offensive in Rumania and Macedonia, working towards Italy. But he adds that the Teutonic numbers do not make for superiority. Tho Germans failed in the Yser campaign when they were three to one, and the Allies were almost without artillery and munitions. He declares also that the danger to Italy is past. An overwl elming defeat of radical elements in Spanish politics- at a goneral election is attributed in part to German propaganda.