| Show ITALIANS SPURN neav lit PE ACE 0 0 PROMPTLY REJECT TEMPTING OFFER FROM AUSTRIA AND GERMANY allies will give the italian government every aid in resisting thrust at lomare lambarry Lom barry v Exper expected ted as result of refusal washington italy has spurned a new and tempting peace offer from austria and germany this fact was officially conf confirmed irined in diplomatic information reaching washington march 10 19 it formed one of the principal bases of the success of the just concluded ide meeting eting of the war council in london according to diplomatic advices advises received here tuesday the result of the war council upon which it issued a new d defiance efi ance to the alie central powers and a new pledge te tc fight for victory may be summed up as follows first lve st of suez the allied line is firm in a political i and military sense every possible military disposition to to meet and in some instances to more than meet a german offensive has been efficiently made second east of the suez the german menace is recognized as for the present remote though the entente statesmen are reported to have been unanimously in favor of japanese intervention tion in Si siberia bria they are also reported as willing to awalt await the crystallization of 0 events n russia and a possible change of the attitude of the united states before taking actual measures to meet the german advance with ith the help of japan the decision of ane council with respect to italy is reported to have produced a particularly happy result the council in effect has recognized the vital importance of the italian link in the allied chain which binds germany on the west with the full cooperation of italy steps have been taken to help her acet the great thrust at the he lombardy plains of which fresh evidences have developed within the last few days the peace offer to italy Is understood to have bave been of the most generous nature and to have come from a direct official source it was promptly rejected by italy as only a part of tile the political drive accompanying the thrust at lombardy the shifting of the german attack to the westward as indicated in dis dispatches pitches frow from switzerland and italy ant and recently received here was recognized as a ine menace ilace to 0 effective italian operation cooperation co in tile mar ar should the germans reach brescia it was recognized that even ff italy continued to figlar as premier orlando pledged her to lier her work would croul d be little more effective than that of siberia and rumania similar tenders of peace accompanied I 1 by threats of a drie biere ere reported at the councils to have been made to serbia and even to france not only were all rejected but according to the reports licke heie the delegates to the cout council icil left assured of the fact that ample military provision vision lias has been taken to meet aery possible military threat |
