ATTACK ON THE BRITISH

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 142, 5 March 1918, Page 5

ATTACK ON THE BRITISH

SHARP FIGHTING I PORTUGUESE SECII

VAST RECONNAISSANCES BY ' THE GERMANS

RUSSIANS SIGN" PEACE

TREATY

HUGE LOSSES IN WM MAHAL

THREE U-BOATS SUNK

Interest in the enemy's intentions in the■ Western 1 ;' theatre,.iV) intensified by various reports and comments in to-day's dispatchesj. .and speculation is rife as to whether the attacks on the French arc iii . the nature of preliminary sparring for the opening of tho muKh-talked-of grand offensive and advance on Paris, or were a vast reconnaissance over a wide front. It is semi-officially stated that the Jre is no evidence as yet that the enemy's' activities are the prelude- io the offensive. Tho British front, after a period of eoinparativo calr.B, has been enlivened by no fewer than six German raids and two alltacks, one delivered in the Portuguese sector of the line. The l latter was gallantly met and repulsed. A heavy raid on tho Australian! •sector was brilliantly'repulsed, after some hard fighting. In Russia, events have entered upon a new turn. The Bolshevik delegates at. Brest Litovsk have signed the peace agreement with Germany, without discussion, this despite tho fact that the new terms are more stringent than those that wero announced on February 25. The news of the pact was leceived with hostility in Petrograd, and by all accounts the Russians will continue to fight, treaty or no treaty. '