ITALIAN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, 6 December 1917, Page 5

ITALIAN FRONT.

ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED LONDON, Dec 4. Italian Official. —We repulsed attacks southward of Daone Valley, in the Guidicaria region. The enemy artillery is active between Monte Sisemol and Castel Goberto. We carried out a powerful concentration of fire on enemy masses in Gallic Wood and northward of Monte Tondareca. LONDON, Dec 5. A British Headquarters correspondent in Italy says the first shots between British and Germans took place during an aerial battle. Four British machines flew over the enemy’s lines near the Alpine foothills. Five Germans v attacked. One was downed. Later the British engaged 12 enemy machines, seriously damaging two. The rest were driven back.

HUNS FORTIFYING THE TAGLIAMENTO. SUSPENSION OP ITALIAN OPERATIONS PREDICTED. Received 11.40. ROME, Dec 5. The enemy is employing hundreds of thousands of soldiers, prisoners, and civilians constructing strong defensive lines east of Tagliamento, intending to fall back if the efforts to pierce the Piave line fail. The Giornale dTtalia learns that the reverses on the western front greatly disturbed Hindenburg, who is considering the evacuation of vast territories in order to avoid envelopment. Some German newspapers predict a suspension of the offensive in Italy, the main object of throwing the Italians back from the Austrian frontier being achieved.