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EUROPEAN WAR BEVELOPMENTS Germany does not expect to win a smashing victory but will never sue for pease The end will iome when the allies tire of a hopeless waste of blood and treasure and propose to end the con tlict This is the attitude of Germany at this time It is in substance what has been communi ¬ cated informally within the last fortyeight hours to the United States government That Kaiser Wilhelm caused this statement of his position on the question of peace to be presented to the American government on the eve of the opening of the spring campaign in which Kitcheners new army of 1000010 men is scheduled to play an important part IB regarded at Washington as signifi ¬ cant This peace terms which Germany would lie willing to consider at this time also have been communicated to tho United States In brief they are these Germany proposes the restoration of the status quo in Europe which means no exten ¬ sion of territory by any of the belligerents Ger ¬ many proposes a redistribution of the colonies of the belligerents particularly in Africa Ger ¬ many while evacuating Belgium will refuse to pay any indemnity to the latter but would be willing to pay a reasonable price for the Congo Free State the Belgian colony in Africa Ger ¬ many proposes that Great Britain and all other nations enter into an agreement establishing the freedom of seas and the immunity of all commerce from attack in time of war Ger ¬ many is unalterably opposed to relinquishing Alsace and Lorraine to France although the Ber ¬ lin government is known to have considered re ¬ cently a propositon that the kaiser keep the Flem ¬ ish part of Belgium and give France the French part of Alsace and Lorraine LorraineRecklessly Recklessly sacrificing lives the French have commenced and are gaining momentum daily in their drive upon Mete Thousands of TolTros troops have fallen in the tremendous assaults aimed against the German salient which juts forth from St Mlhiel but still they continue Little lss heavily according to the Paris communique have the Germans suffered in their desjwrate efforts to st i tho tid l rush of the Fnneli The French spring campaign which is believed to bo well under way despite the handicap of wretched weather consists In a terrllie drive on Metz the nerve center of the German line of communica ¬ tions which if struck will practically paralyze the Kaisers entire western line Unfaltering suc ¬ cess Is claimed by the French in their every effort against the German wedge The heaviest lighting is going on in the forests of LaMorvillo and Ailly and on the fortified heights around Verdun Through Hoods and marshes swollen streams and treacherous quagmires attack follows attack and counterattack counterattack And in all those battles the Germans are l eing driven back foot by foot and the German wedge is slowly but surely being blunted So the French claim On the other hand Berlin oiiieial statements declare that the French are exhibiting a remarkable disre ¬ gard for human life without profiting thereby Tremendous French losses are recorded by the Ger ¬ man headquarters which claims that not an inch of ground has been lost by reason of these terrific attacks attacksAVitii AVitii the Russian force in possession of all the main summits and slopes of tho Beskid mountains army ollirers at Pctrograd assert that the Aus ¬ trian Operations in tho Carpathians have collapsed The Russian general start is considering the best approach into Hungary Operations centering about Mezolaborcz including the important points of Bart feld Lupkow and Uzsok apiicur virtually to have ended with the Austrians on the defensive along the whole line and perceptibly weakened Deep snow which still covers the Carpathian ridges stands in the way of a rapid advance into Hungary Once this difficulty is overcome and the Russians reach the southern slopes where signs of spring are beginning to appear the most serious obstacle to a further advance will lie the artiticial defenses which It is assumed have been erected The country between the Sand and Laborraa rivers is believed to provide the best route The Russian start is of the opinion that tho Germans have trans ¬ ferred all available troops from other fronts to de ¬ fend this region and that therefore they will be unable to offer any wore formidable opposition than heretofore On the other hand it is expected that the German answer to tho Russian offensive will bo the development of a new movement in Poland starting from Thorn or Cracow But tho invasion of Hnngarv is rcgaided in Potrograd as a foregone con ¬ clusion unless the Germans are able to transfer a formidable force of lirst line troops to stiffen the Austrian armies armiesGerman German troops again have established themselves upon tho west bank of the Ysor in West Flanders driving the Belgians out of Dro Grachten Tins German war office officially announced this success yesterday afternoon in an ollichil statement The Germans captured one hundred privates two officers and two machine guns This is the second time the Germans have occuplfd Drei Graehten In ten davs having boon driven out by Belgian artillery lire early this week The Germans also claim the rapture of French trenches in the Champagne dis ¬ trict French attacks in the Woevre district con ¬ tinue without any progress accruing to the attack ¬ ing forces At several points the allies positons wore bombarded with incendiary shells in retalia ¬ tion for the shelling of French villages behind the Gorman lines linesThe The Rome Messagoro and several other Italian newspapers publish dispatchers from Paris and Lou don according to which the allies have opened negotiations with the Italian government with a view to offering territorial compensation fir Italys active aid in tho war The compensations to be offered are Corsica and Tunis as well as some territory in East Africa which would complete Italys possessions in that part of tho idark con ¬ tinent The dispatches add that the allies arc willing also to recognize Italys claim to the un ¬ redeemed provinces and to any further territory which she might wrest from the Ottoman empire empireYesterdays Yesterdays official communication from the French war office Is as follows British troops lepelled during the night of April 7S a Gorman attack We left unoccupied in the teeth of the enemy German trenches at Epargos which were completely choked with Ixidies and we repelled at the close of the day two counter attacks by the enemy In the wood at Ailly we captured new trenches and repelled two counter attacks as already reported We also took six machine gnus and two trench mortars The envniy ceased his counter attacks after midday middayAn An attempt was made to assassinate tho Sultan of Egypt Hussein Kemnl at Cairo the sul ¬ tan was leaving Abdin palace a native tired n shot at him This went wide and the native was immediately seized Prince Hussein was placed on the throne by the English on Decemlier 18 last the former khodive having been deposed because of his proGerman sympathies Hussein In every ¬ thing except birth is more of an Englishman than a Turk He was educated in Kngland and is in full sympathy with the English annexation of Egypt EgyptThe The question ns to whether an understanding between Italy and Austria is possible and whether a separate AustinRussian inaee treaty Is probable are discussed from different points of view by the press of the Italinn capital The papers agree in saying that the two questions an closely re ¬ lated for if Russia with the permission of her allies obtains what she desires and comes ti terms with Vienna it is impossible to imgino that Aus ¬ tria would IK willing to make territorial ciincs sions to Italy ItalyRecruiting Recruiting for Lord Derbys Dockers battalion at Liverpool began with a rush Three hundred and liftyfive men enrolled in a short space of time tiling up throe companies with which it is proposed to start Three times this nimil or volun ¬ teered This battalion is organized for the pur ¬ pose of rushing work on munitions and the men will wear an army uniform uniformA A telegram from Avlona says 40000 Albanians led by German and Turkish officers are collected between Elbasan and Tirana for ait attack on Dnrnzsco and subsequently on Serbia as a part of a concerted plan for distracting the Balkan states from united action against Austria and Turkey TurkeyThe The French movement between the Mouse and tho Lorraine frontier is developing a distinct offensive with General Joffre pushing his advance while the Germans are making fierce counter attacks This is the substance of the latest dispatches reaching Lon ¬ don from the continent continentVeterans Veterans from the battleseasoned army of Gen ¬ eral von Kluck are being sent into the Woevre district between the Mouse and Moselle rivers to check the furious French drive against the Gor ¬ man left wing according to reports made by aerial observers at Verdun VerdunThe The captain of the Blue Funnel line steamer Theseus which left LIverixiol Marcli 27 for Java has sent back a report of an exciting chase by a German submarine The Theseus managed to es ¬ cape but was damaged by shell fire from the sub ¬ marine marineAdvices Advices from Berlin state that the French of ¬ fensive in the forest of Ailly southeast of Verdun has boon broken and that the allied forces are in retreat west of Aprempnr These reports have not lieen confirmed either in Paris or London LondonChnrles Chnrles Dyson a reporter was lined i25 in Eng ¬ land for supply news to the press calculated to bo of use to Germany and Edward Newman editor of the Soul hern Times was fined 50 for publish ¬ ing a report of a similar nature natureTho Tho Portuguese bark Doure was torpedoed by a German submarine and sunk according to a dis ¬ patch from Swansea where the captain and crew were landed landedConsiderable Considerable supplies of ammunition and artillery arc reaching Turkey through Roumania accord Ing to the London Daily Mails Athens corre ¬ spondent spondentFrench French troops from Africa are ready to assist the allied fleets and British expeditionary forces against Turkey
