ALLIED COUNTER-ATTACK EXPECTED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 57, 30 November 1917, Page 5

ALLIED COUNTER-ATTACK EXPECTED

DESPERATE FIGHTING ON CAMBRAI FRONT [RUSSIAN TRUCE OFFER ' ACCEPTED BAD WEEK FOR BRITISH SHIPPING ■ i Dispatches from the Italian front to-day definitely announce the welcome, but not altogether unexpected, fact that Italy is now safe from invaeion. The splendid recovery of the Italian armies has heen achieved without the assistance in the firing lino of the British and French reinforcements. The New York "World's" correspondent at the Italian front Bays that the Allies are now preparing a counteroffensive, and colour is lent to this by a statement in another report to the effect that the enemy, apparently apprehensivo of the Allies' intentions, is organising his defences. From' the Russian front the news is less satisfactory. The German Government has accepted tho Bolshevik proposals for an armistlo© to disouss the question of peace. Troteky, the Bolshevik Foreign Minister, has demanded of Britain the release of two interned Russians, and hints at reprisals. M. Marcel Hutin draws attention to the necessity for serious consideration being given to any arrangement for an exchange of prisoners between Germany and Russia, in view of the existing treachery and anarchy in the latter chaotic country. No new developments of material import are reported from tb e Western front.