The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-16
Lord Cecil, in Answer to
Question, Says if Pro-
posals Have Been Made
They Have and Will Be
Ignored by Government
HUN WAR LORDS ARE
SNARLING DEFIANCE
AND MAKING THREATS
Won Hindenburg and Won
Ludendorf Claim That as
Allies Do Not Want Their
Kind of Peace They
Are Prepared to Go On

Are Prepared to 10 On
That peace terms have been
offered Great Britain by Ger
many may possibly be inferred
from several significant state
ments given out Friday. Lord
Robert Cecil, British minister
of blockade, when asked II
proposals chad been received
for a peace at the expense OF
Russia" answered that mo
such proposals are being con-
sidered or will be CONSIDERED. :
A little earlier in the day an Am
sterdam dispatch quoted Field Mar
shall Won Hindenburg as saying that
ssthe entente has shown an unrespon-
siye attitude toward Germany's peace
intentions and the great German OIL
fensive must, therefore, go on" Later
in the day General Won Ludendor1I,
the German quartermaster general,
was reported as saying:
"Since the enemy is not inclined TO
make peace, we will have to fight,
and this fight will, of course, be the
most tremendous of the whole wal.
General Won Ludendorff con-
tinueds
awe are stronger than the enemy
reu.yas men. material, aerial
forces. tanks; everything, in fact'
Of which he boosted Is standinS
in readiness ON our side IN no
greatest abundance"
n is admitted that offers OF
hence have been made to Serbia
r. Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria
~. II i. stated that Serbia has ab-
soluteIy refused to consider them.
Tbe treaty. of peace submitted by
4 Germany to Russia at Brest-LatoVsN'
which makes Russia an outpost OF
tho central empires, has either peeh
ratified by the all-Russian congress OF
soviets. or its ratification apparently
is imminent
RUSS REPORTS NOT CLEAR
Reports from Moscow are not clear
on the situation, but 1T seems certain
tbat the bolshevik element has voted
nv a large majority to affirm the
treaty.. AS this element dominates the
congress. the hard terms will doupt-
loss be accepted, notwithstanding re-
norris that Leon Trotzky, the mouth
niece of the bolsheviki, Is opposed 70
their provisions and is inclined to re-
organize the Russian army 70 iisi'
the German invaders
GERMAN PRESS AROUSED
Holland stands in a perilous position,
according to the German newspapers
xvhtcb are printing editorials. evident
~ insured. on the taking over OF
Dutch ships by the United States and
Great Britain. Drastic measures are
advocated if Holland gives way" to
the allies.
The allied maritime transport coun-
ell formed at the instance OF the
American mission to England and
France, led by Col. f. NJ. House, has
held its first meeting and announces
that it will organize allied shipping SO
that tonnage may De useu III thc hioSs
effective manner.
FRENCH FRONT
Spirited fighting is reported along
the French front. In the Champagne
and Lorraine sectors the French have
won local successes. German official re-
ports admit the loss of ground IN
Champagne before heavy forces OF the
French who are apparently able 10
hold the ground they have gained
Along the British front the artillery
fire has grown in intensity in many
sectors and there have been lively en-
Eagements between raiding parties
The Canadians have carried out an
other raid southeast of Lens
ITALIAN FRONT
The Austrians report that Italian po-
sitions on Mount Pasubio, in the noun
famous sections Of the Italian battle
line, have been blown UP and that Aus
trian forces have occupied the ground
Mount Pasubio is east of Lake Gards
and on the left side of a deep salient
in the Italian line. The attack on these
positions on the left bank of the
Facchiglione river may Indicate the
approach of serious blow at the Ital.
ians there in the hope of opening
way into the Bacchiglione valley ant
turning the flank of the Italian armies
guarding the lower Piave.
Since the American forces have ad
yanced and consolidated their lines II
the Luneville sector. there have beer
- ranorfs of unuaual activitv In ~.