SPREAD OF REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 37, 7 November 1917, Page 7

SPREAD OF REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT

The DOTY 6 to-day from the Italian front is grave, though the hope is expressed that better nows may be expected coon. The enemy's patrols have effected the crossing of the Tagliamento River, the floods in which havo unfortunately subsided rather sooner than was expected by the Italians, who looked to the floods to delay the enemy's advance until the retirement to the new'line could bo. completed. According to Mr. Ward Price, these enemy patrols have been held by the defenders, but in comments from other sources it is that the main Italian army is in grave danger. The prescience of General Focli in completing last September plans for the rapid concentration of Anglo-French troops on the Italian front in ca6o of need has borne valuable fruit, not altogether palatable to the enemy. The British and French political and military chiefs havo arrived in Italy on a mfssion of encouragement and warning —warning against the war behind the lines which is being ceaselessly carried on by the Teutons, and topically designated "Boloism." The Teutonic drive in Italy is causing uneasiness in the Balkans. 11. Venizelos is anxious to be amply safeguarded in the matter of supplies and other assistance before committing his country tol mobilisation and war. No material developments are Teportod from the other main battlefronts. A serious crisis is reported to havo been reached in Ireland, where the revolutionary, movement is growing stronger numerically. "Anything may happen," says one correspondent.