The Sentinel=record., 1918-02-28
SOCIALISTS OBJECT TO
 PEACE GIVEN RUSSIA
Indications Appear That the Lono Looked for German Offensive is Again Impending--German submar- ines Sink Another British Hospital Ship With Loss of 164 Persons.

New York, Feb. 27-Tmperial Chancellor won Hertling has failed to drive a wedge between the entente allies by his reply to President Will son. 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 proffer of the olive branch that the more hopeful saw in the rrinciple of the four points enunciated by President Wilson as the basis for peace negotiations.
 Arthur J. Balfour the British sec reJary for foreign affairs. sounded the keynote Of the entente allies when speaking at London he said that until German militarism was a thing of the past and there came into existence a court armed with executive powers making the weak nations as safe as the strong, the war must go on. He characterized yon Hertlings attitude towards Belgium as unsatisfactory and insisted that German practice does not coincide with President Will sons propositions.
 Phillip Schiedemann. the German socialist leader has voiced the pro test of his party to the peace that is being forced on Russia In a debate in the reichstas he said that Ger many must negotiate a peace by un- derstanding and that the ndepend- cnce of Belgium must be secured He says that the Flemines and Walloons must settle their own differences.
 While the German imperial govern meut is trying 10 convince the world of its disinterestedness in the futur of Russia. the advance of the Ger man army towards Petrograd still goes on. It now appears that there will be no armistice on the Russian front until peace is finally consum- mated. In spite of the claim by the Bolsheviki government that the Rus sians were fighting hard for the city of Pskov, the Germans have pushed far to the east of that town. It is rumored that the TeutoHs have reach ed the city of Luga midway between Pskov and Petrograd Borisoff, sixty miles northeast of Minsk. has been captured by the Germans. The Ger
 man official report says that the l Teuton troops in Ukraine have reach 1 ed CorOstisheff, east of Zhitomir, which brings the invaders within fifty miles of Kiev The Russian troops have refused to fight and those who | have not abjectly surrendered are l fleeing in disOrderly mob to the capital If there is any resistance
 to tle German invasion it must come from the peasants.
 There are not lacking indications
 that the long expected German drive along the French and British fronts
 is impending Aerial activity of great
 intensity is reported by the Germans
 who claim to have brought down fif- teen entente aeroplanes. At the same time the infantry is not idle and raids
 have been attempted at widely sep arated points in the past 24 hours One of these was an attack in con siderable force by the Germans against French positions near tho Butte du Mesnil which the American
 artillery assisted in capturing recent lv. The other was north of tho
 Chemin des Danes. where American troops are understood to be il
 trenches Both assaults were broker | up by the prompt action of the allie'
 artillery British forces have re
 pulsed hostile attack near St . Quentin
 German "friehtfulness" has agai l been exemplified by the sinking O r inc British hospital ship Glenar Castle According to the latest ad vices there are 764 persons missin . from the ship, which was fully lighte r and carried the distinctive marking 2 of the hospital service.
 American torpedo boats assisted