ITALIAN RETREAT GOES ON
STRONG POSITIONS GIVEN UP TROOPS WEARY AND SHORT OF GUNS (AOST&ALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) ' T . . . . LONDON, 6th November. Ine Italian situation continues to be grave. The new retreat covers a front of one hundred mile 3. Large zones of consolidated defences have been abandoned. The troops are still desperately fatigued, and possess few guns Ine Austro-Germans are bringing sufficient light artillery forward to break up the Italian formations. The Piave line promises strong features, but it is only fifteen miles from Venice. The essence of the German propaganda in Italy was the old he that the Gormans were rescuing the country from British tyranny - that England was revelling in luxury while allowing her victims to freeze starve, and die. This lie was skilfully used in both Italy and Russia. A TIME-TABLE RETIREMENT (PUBLISHMJ IS THE TIMES.) ,„ . ._ LONDON, 6th November Mr. Jetlnea states : Jhe enemy's cavalry were the first of his troops aeixsv the Tagliamento. The Italian cavalry drove them back, but had to retire "be-
The general r<^>»ent continue, in cimTagliamento S taifctaUe. The enemy's scouts are twelve miles west of
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 112, 8 November 1917, Page 7
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