The Sentinel=record., 1917-12-21
JERUSALEM ID BE KEPT
 FROM THE TURKS
Hard Fighting Continues Between the Italians and the Austro Germans With the Italians Holding Their Own Since the Thrust of Tuesday Which Resulted in a Loss.

New York, Dec. 2O.-In the midst .of the peace pour parleys that are in progress between the representatives or the Teutonic allies and the Bolshe- wiki government in Russia, the war aims of Great Britain-and doubtless of all her allies-have been concrete ly set forth in the house of commons by David Lloyd George, the British prime minister. The complete resto- ration of territory now in the hands of the enemy and recompensation for the havoc they have wrought is the price that will be demanded for the | laying down of arms and bringing about of peace.
 Great Britain did not seek territorial aggrandizement for herself or any of her allies when she entered the war,
 Mir. Lloyd George said, but entered into the hostilities more for the sake of her honor. As to Germany's col
 onies, all of which are now in the hands of the entente. Mir Lloyd George said, their disposition must be determined at the peace congress. Jerusalem, however. the premier de- clared, would never be restored toI the Turks.
 The statement of the prime minister came almost simultaneously with a report that the Teutonic allies intend
 to make peace proposals to the en- tente and that Russia had been re- quested to take similar steps and was endeavoring to sound her former al lies in arms as to their requirements for cessation of hostilities. Mean while the civil warfare in Russia ap- parently is increasing in intensity Cossacks under General Dutoff are re- ported to have captured Tcbeiibinsk, l the junction point on the Trans-Si- berian railway, 125 miles west of the Siberian frontier, through which sup plies from the east for European Russia must pass. but with the results | uncertain owing to conflicting reports 1
 The BolsheyiH government is To- ported to have dentAhded that the chief governing body in the Ukraine make known immediately whether the ukrainian troops will cease assisting General Kaledines' Cossacks and dis arming Bolshevih troops. If the re- ply of the Ukrainians is not a favor able one it is announced that the Rol- sheviki government will declare war on them.
 An unofficial report is to the effect that Grand Duke Nicholas, the for mer Russian general, whose masterful | retreat from the Carpathians and | later successful operations against the 1 Turks in the Caucasus region stamped | him as one of the great commanders l of royalists in the Caucasus region. 1 of rayalists in the Caucasus region.
 Hard fighting continues between the italians and the Austro- Germans since the enemy's thrust on Tuesday which resulted in the capture of po- sitions around Monte Asolone The Italians, according to the Berlin off cial communication, have delivered fierce counter attacks against the sectors in this region in the hands of the Teutons, but have been re- pulsed while the Rome war office says that several attempts by the enemy to advance their lines on the Tasson- 1 Coi Del Orso front and to cross the piave river northeast of Venice were | frustrated. Two enemy submarines have been