ITALY.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1917, Page 5

ITALY.

| AN INFANTRY ATTACK. BETTER WEATHER CONDITIO®. London; Not. 30. iMr. Ward Price reports that the snow has ceased on the mountains- Italian airmen have observed considerable Aiw-tro-German movements preparing for an attack. , HINDENBURG LEADING. i - UPSET lIY ITALIAN RESISTANCES. Washington, Nov. 30. Official despatches from Rpme state that Hiiidenhurg is personally leading the Austro-Germaiis in Italy. He planner that Prince Conrad's inn; - should sweep the Sette Communi plateau, 'and the armies of Krobatkin and von Billow traverse the Brenta Valley, cross the mountains and descend on to' f;he Venetian plain. The Italian resistance has upset both schenies. ' Amsterdam, Nov. 30.. German war eorrsrpondents report that the Italian resistance is increasingly "stubborn. The plains'are bathed in strashirie, tut in the mountain* the troflps k are lying in the snow. The Italians hive some protection, but the Germans only holes in the snow. INTENSE ARTILLERYING. ■BRITISH MONITOR HITS BRIDGE OP BOATS. Received Dec. 1, 5.5 ; -p.ra. London, NoV. 30. Italian official: There is intense artilleryinsr, particularly at Telette, in the middle and lower Piave plains. A British monitor .directly hit the bridge of boats near Paaaarella. UDINE FIRED. "*' Received Dec. 2, 11.30 p.m. Rome, Dec. 1, Mr. Percival Gibbons states that the Germans set fire to the town of Udiiie, The damage done amounts to £400,000.