ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1917, Page 2

ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.

ENEMY CONCENTRATIONS.

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ROME, Nov. 27. Austro-German s are bringing a vast concentration of artillery in order to overcome the mountainous barriers protecting the Venetian plain. During the last twenty-four hours the ;enemy constantly attacked, ! but met with determined Italian resistance.

Massed German atacks were . also cut to pieces in two attempts to capture the Italian share of the positions in Lower Piave.

WHY GERMANY ATTACKED ITALY. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27th. Mr. Baker states that a communique from the Allies shows that the relentless sapping of German man-power on the West Front transcends the territorial gains. Germany attacked Italy hoping to divert and engulf the Anglo-French, to prevent further offensives, and that continued attacks would eventually result in softening the enemy’s West Front line. It characterises the British strategy at Cambrai as daringly conceived and brilliantly executed. Italy’s steady resistance is ultimately connected with the Cambrai Victory. The Italians’ moral daily improves.

ITALIAN SUCCESS

AGAINST CRACK AUSTRIANS

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1 (Received this day at 1.20 a.m.,) LONDON, Nov 28

Italian semi-official.—The renowned Austrian Third Edelweiss Division, composed of troops of German extraction and other enemy forces, were severely beaten at Colboretta. They made a massed attack, after a heavy drum-fire. They were crashingly superior at first, their numbers enabling the assailants to penetrate our advanced line and roach a mountain battery, but a fierce counter-attack, in tho face of a violent barrage, resulted in an enemy rout. They then attempted to advance along the Valsing, but were frustrated. \ ......

COMPLETELY RE-ORGANISED,

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(Received This Day at 1.20 a.m.) ROME, Nov. 28

A correspondent of the “Messagero”' states the Italian reserves are complete ly reorgahised, enabling fresh troops to be continually launched against r the enemy. Italian factories have replaced to whole number of guns lost. Apart! from the Allied artillery, the numerical superiority of the Italian troops is now restored.

ITALY SAFE

(Received This Dav a* 9.50 a.mty • NEW YORK, Nov. 27th. Holder, a councillor at the British Embassy, in a speech said Italy is safe from further invasion.