FRESH ITALIAN SUCCESSES
THE PERIL OF TRIESTE
RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE ORDERED
ACTIVITY ON WAR FRONTS
HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK
Further progress is reported in to-day's dispatches from the Italian front. Tho enemy is tenaciously resisting, but his efforts are fruitless, and are weakening. The Austrian Staff, rejecting the counsels of their Gorman brethren, have decided to defond Trieste at all costs. The Hungarian, political crisis is still acute, and the situation is being rondered difficult by the uncompromising opposition of the ex-Fromier (Count Tisza) to electoral reforms, opposition tinged with a uoto of defianco of the Emperor's wishes. The Russian Armies havo been ordered to prepare to take the offensive, and similar instructions havo been issued to the Fleet. Tho land fronts are already active, to judgo from a German report. A successful landing Taid by Russian naval forces in the Black Sea indicates a resumption of naval activity. On the Western front the lull continues.' There is a brief hint of the operations on the Egyptian front. The approach, of the dry season in tho East African theatro has heen heralded by a southward movement of German raiding forces, with the British in pursuit. Another British hospital ship has been torpedoed, without -warning, and sunk. In America a carefully-planned murder plot to prevent conscription has been disclosed. Ringleaders havo teen arrested,- and the authorities havo issued a stern warning 'against recurrences of this kind of thing. Tho situation in Grocco is still complicated. M. Vcnizelos, who has hitherto declared that his movement was not aimed at tho dynasty, has at length formed the conviction that King Constantino must go. .
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 5
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268FRESH ITALIAN SUCCESSES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 5
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