AMERICANS DEVELOP THEIR SUCCESSES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 308, 17 September 1918, Page 5

AMERICANS DEVELOP THEIR SUCCESSES

-~"' FRESH SCOPE FOR FOCH'S : STRATEGY ' AUSTRIAN PEACE NOTE VAGUE AND EVASIVE PROPOSALS The Americans are successfully developing their brilliant success .' " m the St. Mihiel sector, and have further advanced their line. Mete is stated to be under fire of the long-range guns, .and interesting speculations are abroad as to tho possibilities of the situation. One commentator~-a miter of acknowledged repute—states that Foch's genius for setting the pieces for a dramatic coup may be expected to develop the situation to the extent that there will be "no let up" for the German High Command. Not only that, but tho further development off the situation in this region will open the way to an invasion of Germany in 1919. Meanwhile things aro not going well in the interior of the Central Empires. Tho German Government heads havo had to face a ijtjde union deputation, which wanted information on various vital points, and according to the report of the proceedings the imparting of information calculated to buoy the sinking hopes of the German proletariat was not altogether a brilliant success. The Aiistrian Government, no doubt inspired, it is said, by Germany, has issued a formal Peaco Note appealing for a round-table discussion at a neutral centre of fundamental principles regarding the belligerents' peace conditions.