ON THE ITALIAN FRONT.
ITALY’S STUPENDOUS TASK. TASK. Austraiian-Now Zealand Canlo Association. LONDON, Ogt. 27. Mr Ward Price, writing from Italian headquarters on the Isonzo front, says; We arc on the eve of one of those immensely powerful, long-planned drives with which the Anstro-Gorman seek to crush an adversary by a siiiglo staggering blow. A terrible crisis is coming when each side stakes all upon a throw. Millions of men will be strained to the limit of exhaustion. Italy is about to meet single-handed almost entire Austrian army, with at least ten German divisions and now batteries of hear \ guns ranging all along the front. The Italians at'the first onset lost some ground, but those wore onlv the first sparring blows. The, heaviest possible fighting is going on in the Isonzo triangle, with Tolmmo ns the apex. The enemy is using overwhelming numbers of troops in an effort to tluust us from the Julian plain.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10119, 29 October 1917, Page 5
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