ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 November 1917, Page 2

ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.

ITALIAN RESOLVE. ROME .Novembor 28. Austrian airmen have dropped leaflets a s the people attended Mass a Saint Marks. Immediately a great crowd assembled at Saint Marks after Mass and vowed to fight to the last to prevent Austro-Germans desecrating Venice . Naval brigades accustomed ito the marshes, transformed the dykes into trenches ensuring communication through a labyrinth of canals . GERMANS FOILED. A NEW MOVE. Reuter’s Telegrams (Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) LONDON November 28. Italian headquarters report the enemy having vainly hammered at the valleys on both sides of Mt. Grippa, are now attempting to descend from Setticomuni plateau, in the hope that the throat agaiinst Vicenza will induce the, main Italian army to withdraw from the Piave line. The British continue to concentrate on their assigned positions. ITALIAN OPERATIONS! ATTACKS REPULSED. (Received This Dav at 10.15. a m.j ROME, Nov. 29. Italian official. There was reciprocal artillerying on the whole front. Our batteries carried out a destructive bombardment on enemy boats on the Lower Piave. We repulsed heavily, enemy attacks at the confluence of Siscize and Vojussa, in Albania. AN INHUMAN ACT. ROME, Nov. 29. The “Idea Nazionale' states during the fighting at Zeuzone, thft.. Germans used peasant women and children as shields, and shot- them when they were compelled to retire.