TEUTON HORDES INVADE ITALY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 30, 30 October 1917, Page 5

TEUTON HORDES INVADE ITALY

ORGANISED TREACHERY AT WORK FRENCH ATTACK IN BELGIUM ADVANCE OF OVER A MILE The gravity of the military crisis in the Italian theatre of the war overshadows everything to-day. Tho momentum of the Anstro-German attack, reinforced by the immense weight of numbers behind, has carried the Teuton hordes into Italian territory. Gorizla has fallen. The Italian official report ia an admission of tho withdrawal across the Isonzo, and an eloquent appeal to the Army to do its utmost. A sinister feature ' of the crisis IB the revelation oi) German organised treaohery in Italy. At the very moment of the How in the north certain units of the Italian Second Army failed to 6tand .up to the shook, and either surrendered without fighting; or retreated.; Thus the hole was made, and tho .Teuton flood poured in. The Germans now claim to have taken 80,000 prisoners and 600 guns. In the West, tho French, have opened a new attack in Belgium, and advancing on a front of over two miles, carried their lines over a mile further on, and at the same time inflicting the heaviest losses.