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} RENEWAL OP ACTIVITY. ,/ GOOD ROAD AND PLENTY OF GUNS. AUSTRIAN DEPRIVED OF MASTERY OF THE AIR. Received May S, 11.55 p.m. Rome, May S. The fine weather has inteneitied the activity on the Italian front. The snows are melting in the Trentino. Half a million peasant soldiers have been engaged constructing roads, trenches, and dug-outs along the 500 miles between Switzerland and the Adriatic Sea. The Italians have everywhere an equality of truii'). It is believed, indeed, that their artillery is superior on the Isonzo front. Italian aeroplanes are rapidly developin", and have deprived the Austrian* of the mastery of the air. A PAPAL APPOINTMENT. Rome, May 7. •Monsignor Cerretti's appointment as secretary of'the Congregation is regarded as significant, owing to his lieing n recognised authority on the 'American, Mexican, and Irish questions.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1917, Page 5
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