ITALIAN PRESSURE ON AUSTRIANS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11647, 15 August 1916, Page 5

ITALIAN PRESSURE ON AUSTRIANS.

ANOTHER STRONG LINE PIERCED.

TJid Fmicb have achiever! another grand success, haying captured four miles of the German third line east of Hardeconrt, and appropriated from the Germans the towns of Clery and Manrepas after bombardment and a 00-minnte busy bayonet conflict. A glance at the map shows that the gain is an exceedingly important one. But, according to a correspondent, another such move will place the French in possession of a main artery of communication which will endanger the whole German position in that quarter. The Germans appear to have been pounded silly opposite the British at Pozieres. There is an account of an apparently aimless attack on the British position in which the whole force was annihilated except five, Germans got out on the parapets at the back and shouted Come hack ! Come back!” Bat there were none who could obey the order, ggi The immediate object of the offensive in France is said to be to keep a steady pressure upon the Germans and provide psrmauent employment for as many of them as possible while the Kussiaus smash the remainder in a country not so susceptible of underground fortification, Both are contributing to the success of the strategy in a very satisfactory manner. The ‘guns of the Austrians are blind. It appears Austrians are unable to take aerial observations of the Italian concentrations and so are dropping their shells pimmiscuously among the mountains and valleys. Long range fire absolutely needs the services of the flyer as a director. Without it is merely futile fumbling. 3 -

The battle goes on in the Balkans! quite successfully apparently, though without sensational incident. It is stated that the Allies are slowly, though grimly, closing in on the Bulgar lines and worrying them out of their positions with shell fire. How large is the army of the Allies we have not yet been told, but the probability is that it is sufficient for the work in hand or it would not have been undertaken. It is stated that the Allies have agreed to the exclusion of German ships from their ports for a term of years and tiiat the conditions of peace shall include a.cession of German ships to the Allies of equal value to those sunk. The Vaterland is suggested as an exchange for the Lusitania. That would be-the most terrible cut of all. The Hun has chortled a great deal over the fact that io the competition in big shipbuilding he holds the record. Herr William Hohenzoliern and Hindeuburg have impressed upon the German defenders of Kovel that they must defend the town to the last man and the last ditch. The Herr William will not himself in the last ditch find. Rather would he at the Schloss the seventh bird eat.