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Show I KAISER TO OFFER PEACEI I Heavy Fighting Is In Progress on the Mountain Front In Italy I I BRITISH RETAKE LOST GROUND I I LONDON, Dec. 1 5. Emperor William in his Christmas message promises to make a final peace offer to his enemies "on whom, in case of rejection, will fall the responsibility for : r bloodshed in-1 918," according to an unofficial Berlin telegram : ' forwarded from Geneva by the Exchange Telegraph company .!. toda3r- ; Heavy Fighting in Progress. : t ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS IN NORTHERN ITALY, , Qec 3 .jle Associated Press. Heav3' fighting is in pro-tS, pro-tS, grcss today on the mountain front in the northeast of the I'2UI Brenta river. The enemy is attempting to advance his posi tions as he has those west of the river which would give him two lines of approach to the Brenta valley and the open plain, r The -chief Austro-Gerrhan " effort is centering about ! Monte Beretta. There the enemy succeeded- in advancing f&t only a short distance in the repeated attacks in which he suffered suf-fered large losses. British Regain Ground. '; LONDON, Dec. 15. The British have regained part of the ground won by the Germans on the Ypres front yesterday, the war office reports. The statement follows: Local fighting was re-commenced yesterday evening in : ; l the neighborhood of Poelderhoek chateau in which our troops i regained a considerable part of the trench into which, the en- j. cmy had penetrated during the morning. 'The hostile artillery was active during the night east of Messines and northeast of Ypres." ti; New Advance in Palestine. 3-J LONDON, Dec. 15. The British have made another ( : advance in Palestine northeast of Jerusalem, the war office '' announces. ' 2j 5 New Treaty With Germany, ffer- AMSTERDAM, Dec. 1 5. A treaty' between Russia and Germany has been formulated, according to an official Ger- n man statement received here today. 1 Review of War Situation Germany is to make another peace i offer at the Christmas season, accord - ; ing to an unofficial dispatch from Bcr- ;? lln recoived In Geneva. rZ : Emperor William, it Is reported, will 1 ;t extend the offer in his Christmas mes- r! '.' sage, declaring that the responsibility for bloodshed in the coming year will1 ,ie witn tne Entente if it rejects the - rZ f proffer. Meanwhile Germans' and Austria- Hungary are continuing their military rssi 1 drive southward from the Alps and s! coupling this threat of the crushing of 1 Italy with the menace of a German of- J fensive on the western front a men- I ace rendered more serious by the rc- lease of hundreds of thousands ot troops from the Russian front because -s! of the virtual elimination of" Russia :$f from the war. Sj Bigger Guns Brought Up "i 's on,v in tnc northern Italian field 'n that a really sustained campaign is in ZMp progress at present. Several times rc- if r cently there has been a tcmporaiy lot- 1 i up but upon renewal the force of the attack has been apparently intensified as bigger guns and fresh reserves were brought up. r' ; The attack in its present phase is 'i centering upon Monte Beretta. norlh- $ WGSt of Monte Grapha and Just to the east of the Brenta. Evidently the Ital- - S ian line is Just as- strongly held here as pZ V in the other sectors recently attacked P5 for the advices from the front report f- only a very slight yielding in the face f of several attacks in which the enemy ') sacrificed large numbers of troops. fc5$" I Germans Seeking Weak Spot Pj '' The tentatIve thrusts which arc K , being made by the Germans on the Franco-Belgian front, as if a weak spot In the Entente line was boing sought out are being countered after each hostilo move Field Marshal Haig's troops have met the last such blow in Flanders, where a trench section near Poelderhoek chasteau was taken bv the Germans with an attack in which a considerable part of the position was recovered. I |