NOT ACKNOWLEDGED BY ALLIES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 156, 21 March 1918, Page 5

NOT ACKNOWLEDGED BY ALLIES

AIR RAIDS ON GERMANY

STATEMENT BY GERMAN CHANCELLOR

: The enemy's offensive plans are still a subject of speculation. One message to-day declares that the Germans are boasting, as they did in 1914: "Wβ are going to Calais." Another, from Washington, states that Balkan diplomats aro in receipt of information that the Germans are making extensive preparations for a drive towards Salonika. Meantime specific dotails of tho results of recent aerial fighting and raiding and reports dealing with operations on land supply further and convincing evidence of the enemy's marked inferiority in resource and enterprise to tho Allied armies by which ho is opposed. Fuller details of tho late fighting on tho Verdun sector make it clear that the French. Brilliantly outmatched the cneniy at every point, both in breaking up his preparations for attack and in repelling the attack he contrived to deliver. The Allied Governments have issued a declaration in which they formally and forcibly denounce Germany's crimes against Russia and Rumania, and intimate 'that the treaties in which tho enemy is imposing his will on these countries will not be acknowledged More than three thousand officers and men who fought under General Townshend in the defence of Kut-el-Amara are believed to have porished in a desert march which tho Turks compelled them to undertake without provision of food or medical treatment. Tho sensational announcement is made that the arrest has been ordered of a French officer, head of the Bureau of Intelligence at the Ministry of War, "iu connection with espionage."