PEACE MOVEMENT.
ENEMY ARTILLERY OVERWHELMINGLY SUPERIOR. ITALIANS SUFFER I HEAVILY. LONDON, Dec. 14. Reuter's correspondent at the Italian headquarters reports: The enemy continues to mass troops and" artillery in Trentino, especially on both sides of the Brenta river. Allied aircraft regularly bombard the Austro-German reinforcements but fresh contingents fill the gaps. The enemy artillery is overwhelmingly superior and destroyed Italian defences. The defenders' casualties were heavy. They resisted so fiercely that the enemy's losses averaging fifty per cent of his strength. AUSTRIANS' BIG CAPTURES. LONDON, Dec. 14. A wireless Austrian official message states: We prisonered during four days' fighting, in the Melette region, 639 officers and 16,000 men.
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Taihape Daily Times, 15 December 1917, Page 5
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108PEACE MOVEMENT. Taihape Daily Times, 15 December 1917, Page 5
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