The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-03-01
Chancellor Won Hertling Fails to
Drive a Wedge Between the
Allied Nations.
OFFENSIVE is IMPENDING
Aerial Activity of Great Inten-
sity Reported BY Germans
Who Claim to Have Brought
Down Is Entente Airplanes.


has failed to drive a wedge between
the entente allies by his reply to
President Wilson. The declaration
that German aggression in the east
is not intended for conquest has
come at a time when German acts
belle the words OF the chancellor.
and Paris and London have officially
rejected any proffers of the olive
branch that the more hopeful of the
people saw in the acceptance, in
principle of the four points enunciat-
ed by President Wilson as the basis
for peace negotiations.
Arthur J. Balfour. the British
secretary for foreign affairs, sound
ed the keynote of the entente allies
when, speaking at London. he said
that. until German militarism was
thing of the past, and there came in
to existence court armed with eX-
ecutive powers making the weak ma
tions as safe as the strong, the war
must go on. He characterized Won
Hertling's attitude toward Belgium
as unsatisfactory and insisted that
German practice does not coincide
with President Wilson's proposi-
tions.
Philip Scheidmann. the German
socialist leader, has voiced the pro-
test of his party to the peace that
is being forced on Russia. In a de-
bate in the Reichstag he said that
Germany must negotiate a peace bv
understanding and that the indie
pendence of Belgium must be secur-
ed. He says that the Flemines and
Walloons must settle their own diff
ferences.
While the German imperial gov
ernment is trying to convince the
world of its disinterestedness in the
future OF Russia, the advance OF the
Teuton armies toward Petrograd
still goes on. 1t now appears that
there Will be no armlstice on the
Russian front until peace is finally
consummated. In spite of the claim
by the Bolshevic government that
the russians were fighting hard for
the city OF Pskov. the Germans have
pushed far to the eastward of that
town. 1t is rumorcd that the Ten
tons have reached the city of IMga
midway between Pskov and Pctro-
grad. Borison, GO miles northeast
OF Minsk, has been captured by the
Germans. The German official re-
port says that the Teuton troops in
Ukraine have reached Corostisheff
east of Ihitomir. which brings the
invaders within so miles of Kiey
The Russian troops have refused to
night and those who have not alb
Jectiy surrendered are fleeing in
disorderly mob toward the capital
II there is any resistance to the Ger
man invasion, it must come from the
peasants
American troops have been sub
Jected to heavy bombardment of
gas shell from German batteries
Three Americans are reported to
have died from the effects OF gas
and nine others are said to have
suffered severely.
Ihere are no lacking indications
mat the long expected German drive
along the French and British fronts
'S impending. Aerial activity of
great intensity is reported by the
Germans. who claim TO have brought
down Is entente airplanes. At the
same time, the infantry is not idle
ard raids have been attempted at
widely separated points in the past
- hours. One of these was an at
tack in considerable force by the
Germans against French positions
near the Butte Du Mesnil, which the
American artillery assisted I'm can
turing recently. The other was
north OF the Chemin Des Danes
where American troops are under
stood to be in training. Both as
saults were broken up by the
prompt action OF the allied artillery
British forces have repulsed a |
hostile attack near st. Quentin.
German "frightfulness" has again
cen exempliied by the sinking OF