ITALY SAFE FROM FURTHER INVASION.

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 57, 30 November 1917, Page 5

ITALY SAFE FROM FURTHER INVASION.

HINT OF ALLIED COUNTER-OFFENSIVE ENEMY PREPARING DEFENSIVE POSITIONS By Telegraph-Preuß Araociation-Oopyrijht ■ . ' New York, November 28. Italy is now safe from further invasion.—Aus.-N,Z. Cable Assn. London, November 28. A high military authority las announced definitely that the Italian ' fcrisis has passed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ITALIAN OFFICIAL REPORT ■■/•.. London, November 28. I An Italian official report states: —"In co-operation, with the bombard- ' menfc of tne heighte, our batteries concentrated their fire on the enemy troops, massed and moving, on the Asiago Plateau, in the Primolano Basin, north of Col della Berrett and on tho middle Piave."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable 'Assn.-Rsuter. '. ALLIED COUNTER-BLOW IN PREPARATION New York, November 28. 'Ihe New York "WorldV correspondent at Italian Headquarters says the Allies are preparing a great blow. The Germans realise that they have underestimated the ability of Britain and France to send reinforcements.— ■Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GERMANS FEAR A COUNTER-OFFENSIVE. Rome, November 28. The "Idea Nazionale" statee that the Germans, fearing an Italian coun-ter-offensive on tho Piave, are forcing all civilians to dig trenches.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. ENEMY TRIES A NEW MOVE (Rec. November 30, 0.35 a.m.) London, November 28. Reuter's correspondent at Italian Headquarters reports that the enemy, having vainly hammered at ihe valleys on both sides of Mount Grappa, is now attempting to descend from the Sette Comuni Plateau, in the hope that a threat against Vicenza will induce the main Italian army to withdraw from the Piave line. The, British continue to concentrate on their assigned positions.—Reuter....'... STERN DETERMINATION OF THE VENETIANS (R«c. November 29, 7.45 p.m.) Rome, November 28. When the Austrian airmen dropped leaflets saying that they would attend Mass at Saint Mark's, Venice, a great crowd immediately assembled at Saint Mark's, and after Mass vowed to fight to the last to prevent the Aus-tro-Germans desecrating Venice. Na>al brigades, • accustomed to the marshes, transformed the dykes into trenches, ensuring communication through the labyrinth of canals.—Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn.