Italy's Coming Peril.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 2 April 1918, Page 3

Italy's Coming Peril.

ENEMY'S POWERFUL CONCENTRATION. Received at 8.40 a.m. to-day. Washi:::;!on, April 1. Official cables from Rome state that the situation is becoming tenser on the Italian front. The enemy is bringing new divisions from the Roumanian front. Italian aviators report great movements of Austrian troops in the Val Lugana. Everything indicates that the Austro-Germans will make a big effort to break through the mountainous zone to the Italian plains. WHITE STAR LINER TORPEDOED. STILL AFLOAT. Received 11 a.m. this day. London, April 1. The White Star liner Celtic has been torpedoed but is still afloat. She carried no passengers. New York April 1. A message from Liverpool says it is hoped to save the Celtic. BELGIANS BEAT OFF GERMANS. Received 11 a.m. this day. London, April 1. A Belgian communique says: German attacks aftcsr a violent bombardment of Nieuport on the night of the 30th were completely broken. BLOOD DRENCHED TRAINS. GERMANY'S MANGLED ARMIES. Received at 9.15 a.m. to-day. Amsterdam, April 1. Trains laden with the wounded and dripping blood are ceaselessly passing towards Germany. The hospital trains are insufficient, and many goods vans have to be utilised. KING INSPECTS THE NEW-' LANDERS.

EXTRAORDINARY , ENTHUSIASM. Received at 9.15 a.m. to-day. London, April 1. Extraordinary enthusiasm marked the King's visit to the front.. Everywhere the peasants, the British and the poilus loudly cheered his Majesty. The visit was arranged at a couple of hours notice. His Majesty remarked: "I would like to see those lows over there and shake their hands." . . , ± „ Daring liis visit lie saw two New Zealand battalions and talked witli many of tliem. A SHIPPING SWOP. Received at 8.40 a.m. to-day. New York, April 1. The New York Times' Washington correspondent reports that an agreement has been reached whereby Japan transfers to America 150,000 tons of shipping and America supplies Japan with 300,000 tons of steel plates. I lie Prices for the plates and the .hipping are not announced. AN EMPTY CONQUEST. FOODLESS UKRAINE Received 11 a.m. to-day. Berne, April 1. Austrian newspapers state that i hundred waggons of wheat nave been sent to re-victual tlie Austrian troops _ in thff Ukraine where grain is unobtainable, completely falsifying the Central Powers' hopes. GERMAN CAYALRY USELESS. Received at 9.15 a.m. to-day. London, April 1. German cavalry was repeated ly reported in tlie Ham, Nesle and Peronne districts, but the numbers never exceeded a regiment and they were chiefly tised for the conveyance of information and supports for the infantry advanced posts. FIGHTING IN SIBERIA. Received at 11.40 a.m. to-day. Washington, April 1. The War Department says the report that Irkutsk (Siberia) has been captured is unofficial. TO THE BITTER END. Received at 8.40 a.m. to-day. New York, April 1. Lord Reading, British Am- | bassador, in the course of a .peech. said: If the British line gained anything vital. He beholds Germany will not have lieved the present battle would | Drove one of tlie most glorious chapters in tlie history of British arms. "Britain has no doubt as fn the result. "We are unshaten in our faith. We are determined —come what, may —that, we shall fight till victory is achieved." CLEARING THE TURK FROM ASIA." Received at»11.40 a.m. to-day. Washington, April 1. A London message says that the troops in Mesopotamia have reached a point halfway between

Baghdad and Aleppo, which is 011 the Mediterranean side ot Asia Minor, and is the leading- Turkish military base for Palestine and Mesopotamia. BRITAIN'S -M AGNIFICENT GUNNERS. NO SURRENDER. Received at 9.15 a.m. to-day. Amsterdam, April 1. The Tageblatt admits that the British gunners fought to the last, firing- case sliol which has not been used since 1871.