AUSTRIA THE PRIME MOVER

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2955, 15 December 1916, Page 9

AUSTRIA THE PRIME MOVER

UNCOMPROMISING -- COMMENT' ALLIES' ' MPERESSION of alcohol . The news frp.hr,tha great war ..theatres- is scant;'to-day. On the •Rumanian front the; Russians;have scored a.'point.. against . the . ' and'ina:iiit : ained their "gains counter-attacks. The E.u- . . ..'manians initaied an but ivera' obliged' to fall •• •hack. Violent;cam!onadi.iig,rwith.lively infantry'fighting/ is reportedfrom the Balkans front, north of v'Slonastir, '■ Save for isolated local- actwnfe," thb-Western front is -relatively. "calm. The German ..- / is .occupjing the attention, of Vae'public 'all the world ■ over,-almost to the. exclusion of rite campaigns.., A. speech of Count ■■ Tisza, the Hungarian'Premie#, ha s disclosed the fact that the initia- .... tive came from Austria. A.sifting of the evidence points, we are -"•told, to the-)fact'-that-our Teutonic enemies aro "hard! pressed for- , ' peace.",' Shortage' of food, internal riots, the fear that their territorjal gains, cannot,be held, added to ' the convidtioii ' tha.t having • ■ tried'their' ma;xhnum) the. Allies are . steadily roaoliing theirs, are 1./... qtioted- as factors'behind; the' Germ an'peace proposals, although the ■■-h^'snsxnalfdiis not? .that tho- enemy. is_ merely 'trying it on". - g»- doubfc-.aboot the reception of "] .. /the .-proposals ; m' : Entente curcles'. The.new French TVar Cabinet is - •, <H.. Briand, the .'French Premier,, states that the object ■' -.of the nfewjregime isr a : more .vigorous, "punch" to the war. Thun- . dots of applause, says the message,'greeted M. Briand's announce- ' ~ "- "inffia.i of, the. Governnjerit's' intention to demand the suppression of ' .'-alcohol. - ..... : : .