THE TAGLIAMENTO REACHED

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 34, 3 November 1917, Page 7

THE TAGLIAMENTO REACHED

AIR RAID ON LONDON THE NAVAL SITUATION DESTRUCTION OF UMTS STATEMENT BY SIR ERIC GEDDES A note of ringing confidence is sounded by the French Primo Minister in a statement dealing: with the Italian retreat and the general war outlook.. M. Painlevo declares that Franco and England will fly to Italy's aid with every means, and affirms his unshaken confidence that Germany . will be beaton and that the Allies will write the terms of peace. The enemy claims further large captures of men and guns ou tho Italian front, but the Italians report that they hare successfully completed their retirement on the Tagliamento, "with the Third Army nearly complete," The arresting announcement is made by tho First lore? of the Admiralty that since the beginning of tho war forty to fifty per cent, of the enemy submarines operating in the North Sen and in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans have been sunk, and that tho enemy last quarter lost as many submarines as during the wholo of 1916. Sir Erie Geddes also replies to recent criticisms of tho Admiralty. The British have occupied < Beersheba, tho Turkish advauced baso in Southern Palestine, after executing a night march and overcoming determined resistance by the enemy.