VARIOUS OPINIONS ON NEXT GERMAN MOVE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 206, 20 May 1918, Page 5

VARIOUS OPINIONS ON NEXT GERMAN MOVE

HEAVY TOLL ON THE U-BOATS "IRISH-GERMAN PLOT DISCOVEREDARREST OF SINN FEIN LEADERS jf The situation on the Western front is still in suspense. There are, of course, {Bo usual reports of artillery activity, raids, bombing expeditions, and so forth, but of the resumption by the Germans of their general offensive movements there is yet no sign. The comments by the "High Military Authority !• and General Maurice (his predecessor) furnish interesting sidelights on the outlook The most arresting development from the dispatches is the discovery of a gigantic plot in Ireland, in which Germany jipires as a co-couspirator with the Irish. The Sinn I'ein loader, De Valera, the "Green Countess/' and various others have been arrested, aud.a proclamation has boeii lfsned calling upon all loyal people to stand by the nation at this critical Juncture. The reports of the war on the U-boats are most encouraging. The French, in co-operation with the Americnns, have been consistently sinking the German submarines, and tho enemy losses are steadily mounting np. a fine story of British naval pluck is told in an Admiralty dispatch covering tho exploits of tho British submarines in the Baltic. America is to increase ner war ' efforts, saia President Wilson in the course of a speech to a Bed Cross meeting in New York,