ITALIAN SITUATION.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 November 1917, Page 5

ITALIAN SITUATION.

COLONEL REPINGTON'S VIEWS. LONDON, November 6. Colonel Efepington says: The most remarkable German success of the war was won by only a handful of troops. Von Buelow's army consists of six divisions—two from the French front and four from the Russo-Roumanian fronts. They routed an Italian army far superior in strength', proving again the predominance of moral over mattorial forces. Only subversive propaganda can explain the terrible stain on the Italian army's name. None can recognise the heroes of the past in this distressing rout (involving the greatest Allied disaster of the war. "' Colonel Rcpington warns the Cabinet that Mackcnscn is projecting an offensive against Salonika, and ' that Falkenhayn, is sending large Turkish forces, freed from Armenia, against General Maude or both.

Colonel Rcpington claims that sixty more divisions would have broken the German front in the West, and calls on the Empire to make sacrifices equal to Germany's, whose military effort is double that of the British.