ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.
GERMAN CAPTURES.
rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.]
(Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 13. German official—We , took four thousand prisoners westward of Belluno and Cordevole valley.
TO SAVE VENICE
FROM WAR’S DESTRUCTION
■ LONDON November 13. ' Mr. Ward Price reports the fighting on the Piave is likely to be an artillery duel, the Germans hoping by superior weight of metal to keep the Italian guns down sufficiently to permit them to throw pontoons across, and to give a passagp to the infantry without heavy losses. ' The fighting draws nearer Venice, from which all civilians are being encouraged to leave by free trains. The Government is doing everything with a hope of safeguarding the national, or rather world’s possession, from blind destruction of the ,war. A single hours’ bombardment of Venice would destroy irreparably the treasures of the arts. Therefore elaborate precautions are. being taken to remove the slightest pretext for treating Venice as a fortress. Nobody wearing a uniform is permitted to . enter.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1917, Page 3
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166ITALIAN CAMPAIGN. Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1917, Page 3
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