ITALIANS PRESSING BACK THE ENEMY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 86, 4 January 1918, Page 5

ITALIANS PRESSING BACK THE ENEMY

AUSTRO-GERMANS RETIRE ACROSS THE PIAYE FURTHER BOMBING OF CITIES London, January 2. Aii Italian official report states: '"Owing to our energetic pressure since December 27, the onemy-has abandoned the bridgehead at Zenson and crossed to the left bank of the Piave, suffering heavy loss. We now hold the whole of the Zenson bend. Last night, the enemy bombed Vicenza, Bassano, Caste! Franco, and Treviso. Thirteen persons wore killed, and forty-four wounded." —Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.-Rcuter. DISCIPLINE AND BRAVERY OF ITALIAN TROOPS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF EXPRESSES SATISFACTION. \ Rome, January 2. General Diaz (Commander-in-Chiof), in an interview, expressed his satisfaction with the discipline and bravery of the Italians since the retreat. During the rccent furious fighting, ne said, thoy fell back in somo places five hundred yards, but wore solidly ontrenched in new lines. He praised the concord of tho Italian and Allied troops, and said that if the Italian people .accepted similar discipline victory would not bo lacking.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SENATE EXPRESSES CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT. Rome, January 2. The Senate unanimously passed a vote of confidence in the Government. The Premior, referring to the Brest Litovsk Conference, said that although thoy desired peace the Allies would only accept such a peace as could be reconciled with the liberty of peoples. The .Allied Governments had not consulted regarding the B'usso-German overtures—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. POPE PROTESTS AGAINST USELESS AERIAL BOMBARDMENT. Rome, January 2. Tho "Osservatore Romano" states that the Pope has called tho attention of the Central Powers to the uselessness of aerial bombardment of Padua, and similar massacres, and urged them to abandon such 'methods. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. «