ITALY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1917, Page 5

ITALY.

I DYNAMITERS AND TRAITORS. SENTENCES BY COURT MARTIAL. Rome, Oct 10. IRenatti lias been sentenced to life imprisonment. His wife was abutted, but his father-in-law and two porters were sentenced to death. Another of the accused (Drovandi) waa sentenced to twenty years. [A cable from Rome on September IS stated: A court-martial has opened in connection with the blowing up of a dynamite factory at Cengio i:i February. l'.Vifi, with a terrible death roll, and n aeries of vast incendiary outbreaks in Genoa in December, 1015, and February 1910. The accused are Sergeant-Major Bcnatti, liis whip, father-in-law and four others. Defendants are also charged with giving information to the Austrians. The trial is proceeding' .vith ciosed doors.] WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT.

Austrian Torpedo boat captured. Received Oct. 13, 1.30 a.m. Washington, Oct, 12. The Italian Embassy announced that the Italians captured an Austrian torpedo boat, the crew surrendering without firing a shot. HUGE AUSTRIAN LOSSES. New York, Oct. 11. Semi-official advices from Rome state that the Austrian* have lost a million .men on the Italian iron);, decreasing •the force there by one-third. It has been ascertained that Austrian* and fiommns now consider the Italian front the most dangerous. Austria ii urging Germany to send additional troops.