FURTHER RETIREMENT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 38, 8 November 1917, Page 5

FURTHER RETIREMENT

POURING IN BRILLIANT WORK BY THE CANADIANS

The latest news of the Italian crisis is not cheering. The situation is grave, and a further retirement is iu progress. Tho new defence line is eaid to have strong featuiee, but it is only fifteen miles from Venice. Alliod reinforcements are pouring in. Apparently there is a serious shortago of guns. The first of the enemy's troops to cross the Tagliamento were the cavalry. These were repulsed, but motor machine-guns forced the Italians back. The enemy is using his lighter field-guns to reinforce hie advanced troops. By contrast to the gloom that has been cast over the Italian theatre, the Western theatre has beon again brightened by another British success on tho Ypres front. Another successful attack onj the Passehendaele lines by the Canadians carried that village and two others. It is now a question of holding on, and the last of the great barrier ridge that hemmed in tho Ypres salient will havo gone. Eoulers is under the fire of the British guns. Tho news from Russia today is not bright. The "Morning Post's" correspondent at Potrograd, prefacing his dispatch, with the remark that it is time the facts about Russia were told, ghee us a picture of red anarchy and internal disintegration.