ITALY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 December 1917, Page 5

ITALY.

CAPTURE OF MONTE ASOLONE 4 U.WVKLOOME BUT NOT ■(!' ITALIAN DEFENCE OF THE PLAQRI ■** Received Dee. 23, 5.3 pjn. London, Sec. 2ft, Want Prico s«ys tk&t thr-ff ptnitf «S Monlf Aaokme is unwelcome UnUf' Imu is not highlyimportant. -It yjgp tin; I'lu.'iiiy another ctep We* £? flanking Monte Grappa, and .i the t'liomy n direct view of/>tlw SBf <!; <>f San Lorenzo, enahlii\g him to (Bp', > the Italian commumcatfiMis. The ipi»• trians have net yet readied their >*»** pared positions, where the ItaUawSnM < defending tiio plain and will'tie aniKD put up their best flglit. MOXTE ASOLftNfl REnAivftHaqf ' United &owsioe. - J Beceived Dec. -23, 55 p.m. i ,< "Rome, h'-> 3 In tiio Chamber of Deputies ' tci of Munitions announced thut'JHjhi ' Italians to-day recowpjered^^rite-jIKI onC ' ' «»• ■; i ' ITALIANS RECAPTURE Wr' GROUND. < _ I V , * > COUNTER-ATTACKS DISPERffIHXV J —— ' f V' Aus. and Jf.Z, Cable Assoc. and ftwknt*.. ' 1 Received Dec. 23) 5.6 p.ro. London, Dec. 22, Wireless'ltalian official: In the rtgfa of th,o Asolone front, eastward ofjK" lirenta, we recaptured a consldenflh portion of the ground lost on ' and dispersed strong ' Monte Pertica. ■ ' THE GERMAN VBBfiIGN. Wireless German official: TiieJUatlftNk seven times attacked the, heights :W westward of Monte Asolone and attacked the Monte Sohurok). AH*HnM attacks failed. GERMANY'S DEkAVED OFFENSIVE. DUE TO CZECHS' TREACHEKE. \ A. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. aud-.vfientefl Received Dec, 28, &5< p.m. ' ■ Amsterdam, Dm. 21. In the Reichstag General von Staffe! ; (Minister of War) said that the offeneiM in Italy had been delayed,! owiqg to»&9 Czechs' treachery. It had been pfenndfc , > to begin tiie offensive in September, bet " there was a sudden JteHaa-natoek, mc Carcano, resulting in the wWfe of 4fi» ' first line being last,,duet,to-a Ctah jmE, ■ tenant betraying all"tsk«ir'posKftW/Sfb whole plan of the hiwi' *tx> tiki elmnged, as all the were betrayed. ,' * T ■ ENEMY REPOfcSS* ■ 1 Laadoß,„<Qa&tdKUv^ Italian official.: We < ' -severe losses, an attack on £6e fsoat ijSf twecn Tason and the Col Gtaa. Iw ,< sailors repulsed an attack emtilWQoiSf,, lazzo bridgehead, ' i ! ?