ITALY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 February 1918, Page 5

ITALY.

ENEMY AIR RAIDS. OBUROHES AND HOSPITAId DEMOLIHSED. London, MmA Padua telegrams state that ten eSadf, , aeroplanes dropped sixty bombs on varw ; ous localities near Allbergo and Dualia. 1 They demolished a hospital and the ' catfiedral church of San Francisco and the ancient hospice of Confraternity dclla Garita was damagedTHE OCCUPIED PROVINCES. INHABITANTS BEING i DEPORTED. Received Feb. 7, 8.80 pm. Berne, Feb. 6The Austrians are deporting Italians from the occupied provinces wholesale. The deportees are in a pitable plight, starving and under-clothed. , , AIRMEN ATTACK TROOPS,-, AMMUNITION STORES FIRED, r Am. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Renter. Received Feb. 7, 8.30 p.m. London, Feb. 0. Italian official: Anglo-ItaKan airmen attacked enemy troops and aviation ground. They also fired ammunition ' stores, and downed five enemy machines. The enemy bombed Venice, Mestri. and Trevise. *** AFTER-WAR PROBLEMS: VOLUNTARY SERVICE SUFFICIENT FOR PEACE TIMES. New York, Feb. 6. The Chicago Daily \ews', Rome correspondent interviewed Signor Gasparri. He said that the Vatican favors the abolition of conscription after the war. This is the only method of limiting irmamonts. Voluntary service would be ' fully effective in peace times. Evidence is to be found in the fact that England, Canada, and Australia relied wholly on ■ ■' volunteers in peace time, but war 'compelled England and America to adopt conscription, as the volunteers were in. sufficient for the new military needs.