BRITISH HOLD STRONG LINE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 85, 3 January 1918, Page 5

BRITISH HOLD STRONG LINE

TURKISH MORALE SHATTERED \ „ THE .GERMAN ATTACK NEARCAMBRAI. STORMING PARTIES SUFFER HEAVILY

Further accounts are given of the great success lately won by the British forces in Palestine, 'l'he enemy's losses in killed and prisoners alone number close on two thousand. A detailed account emphasises the abortive character of tho attack which the Germans made a few days ago on tho Cambrai sector. It is mentioned that the British batteries on the Western front ushered in the New Year by firing salvoes of a dozen shells to intimate 12 o'clock and others; indicating the numerals of 1918. The Germans at some points resented the greeting. A British newspaper, the "Daily Chronicle," credits the enemy with having made a concrete peace proposal, which "will receivo the serious consideration of the Allies." In France, however, M, Clemenceau has refused to grant French Socialists passports for Petrograd, on the ground that if these passports were given, "many would assert that France was taking part in pourparlers with a view to peace, which was by no means in the mind of tho Allies in tho absence of serious proposals from tho enemy." An Italian semi-official dispatch states that in his ait raids on Padua the enemy is deliberately seeking to wreck precious treasures of religious art. A message received from Sydney early this morning states that war news is greatly delayed, and that nothing from London was available.