LATE WAR NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 16782, 10 July 1918, Page 8

LATE WAR NEWS.

Press Association—.Rv Telegraph--Copyright—United Service. LONDON. July 9. The "Globe, commenting on Mr Lioyd (leorge's address to the Americans, wherein be said he did not want fo dispossess Germany ot her nilreritance asks: "Are the conquered colonies to be treated as par- ot Uciniany's will have something; to say. If that is his idea, we recommend him to get ii closer touch with national opinion." LONDON Julv 9. Mr Ward Price writes. Tho Au.sfrian.s were bitterly reluctant" iu lose their half-dro.vned positions i-i the Piavc delta, for which tiicy tna.le such frrible sacrifices last winter Two Italia r ollicers, win. recently were taken t risoner but escaped, describe how mi exalted Austrian admiral and Ins Urge Staff were assembled at Caorle, 10 miles behind the l_ro.it. waiting t> assume tomr-ian-l o:' the naval base at Venice. The. Austrtaris retreated from the delta onlv when they were liable to complete extermination, /•dded to the inrrc-asing Italian shelling and macuiiMt-gunning. there was threat of knmimml starvation owing to the cutting off ol supplies. Ibe 'ook pKce under heavv lire, and the disorganised remnant ot four shattered division- left heaps of corpses everywhere lire men sunk "the deltas and the greedy mud swallowed them. lire dead include many of the crack Viennese* infantry corps known as the t.'ompaiiy ol Death ov.ni" to their wearing an emblem consisting of a skull and crossloncV Th.ev are noted for their special daring' The Aiistro-Oi-ni.il. Governments luive ordered the censorship to rigidly suppress news ol the clean sweep ■l' "'cnerals involved in the recent defeat. It. is Iclt that tlie disclosure of" the incompetence of the military leaders would dangerously increa-c the discontent of the hungry an-] disai.pouited Austrian*. Tn the House of Commons, rei.lying to n. question, Mr Bonar Law said b- did not think the matter of demanding the surrender of enemy »"*rcliM|tshipi equivalent to the, tonnage submarined could, be, discussed more full* at this stage of the war. AMSTERDAM, July 9. The ' Cologne Gazette ' reports that a distinguished German returned from the Fai°East describe the power of the Bo'sheviks is everywhere M.tnnn,, and no ion B tx Siberia. TOKIO, July 9shots, but esct.ped in a crippled Q Tlie ' I'ct't Parisiens ' Petrograd correspondent is of opinion that the n-u.dtr of M.rba-di was the work of agents of the Extreme Monarchists •i f , tlv obiect foicing tho Germans to seize I'etrograd and .Moscow It of German divisions from the west front to l-olioe Busrfa. Aasc{A tLtwu-&s Telegraph-Oopyright-lteuter.) AMSTERDAM. July 9. The Tlkraiaini Governiceut have resigned. ~,,.,-■ ... i j ine Uh-wiiiJiJ" <-"- vi t.. T-v-, . \ inisier stated that, Ciemtaiiy ti^i accep and gU Jrt&»» of war should not bo employed agam m the war.