ITALY’S WAR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17788, 13 May 1918, Page 5

ITALY’S WAR.

ENEMY TRADING. DEALINGS IN JUTE. ROME. May 10. Tho seizure of Parodi’s documents shows that ho dispatched huge supplies of jute to Germany, via Chiasso. In order to defraud the Customs, consignments were disguised as hemp and tow. A great fire occurred early in 1917 in the National Ropemaking Manufactories at Cornigliano, in which a large quantity of enemy jute was destroyed. Parodi falsified tho accounts and secured tho insurance money, as though the jute belonged to Italians. Parodi was recently severely criticised for keeping a large number of merchant steamers' Idle at Genoa, obstructing Allied traffic. THE BATTLEFRONT. AN ITALIAN SUCCESS. A. and N.Z. Cable Association and Router. (Received May 13, 12.45 a.m.) ROME, May 11. An Italian official message states: — Our troops stormed a strongly organised height on Monto Corno in the Vallarsa on the night of May 9, capturing a hundred prisoners and two guns. AIR RAID ON TRIESTE. FOUR MACHINES DOWNED. (Received May 12, 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, May 10. Official advices from Romo state that Italian hydroplanes attacked Trieste and transports in the Gulf cf Trieste. Four Italian hydroplanes were dowmed. JUSTICE AND PEACE. THE POPE’S HOPE. ROME. May 10. The Pope has ordered priests in all parts of the world to celebrato Mass on June 29. praying that peace and a fraternal spirit may soon return to all peoples. Ho concludes hv expressing his ardent hope that among all nations justice and peaco may cxchango a kiss.