ITALIAN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 9 May 1917, Page 5

ITALIAN FRONT.

INTENSIFIED ACTIVITY.

ROME, May 8

Fine weather has intensified activity on the Italian front. Snows are melting Tn the Trentino. Half a million peasants and soldiers have been engaged constructing roads, trenches, and dug-outs along 500 miles between Switzerland and the Adriatic. The Italians have everywhere equality of guns. It is believed their artillery is superior on the Isonzo front. Italian aeroplanes are rapidly developing. They have deprived the Austrians of mastery of the air. BRITISH FOOD PROBLEM A FURTHER CAUTION. Received 11. LONDON, May 8. Newspapers continue to insist on the pressing necessity of an Irish settlement, also the immediate rationing of breadstuff's, particularly as the Food Controller states that stocks of maize, oatmeal, barley, rice, and flour are unobtainable in sufficient quantities to be used as wheat substitutes; therefore they must be used sparingly as bread. CONDITIONS IN THE OLD LAND WOMEN AND GIRLS FOR FARM WORK. LONDON, May 7. Organisations are springing up throughout the country to deal with the tremendous rush of women and girls for employment on the land. PUNISHMENT OF FOOD WASTAGE LONDON, May 7.

Lord B'athurst announced that an order has been issued providing for the punishment of those responsible for the waste of food.