SECOND EDITION. AUSTRO-GERMAN BLOW AT ITALY DEPRECATED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10120, 30 October 1917, Page 5

SECOND EDITION. AUSTRO-GERMAN BLOW AT ITALY DEPRECATED.

ITALIANS WERE FULLY PREPARED. CONFIDENT OF HOLDING THEIR OWN. Received October 30, 11.40 a.rn. LONDON, Oct. 29. The exaggeration ot the enemy’s strength is unfair to the Russians and Roumanians, who, despite the Russian collapse, still retain as many enemy divisions on their front as there were when the Russian’s offensive began last July. It also suggests that the Italians were loft to bear the brunt of a numerically superior enemy. This is not the case.' The Italians were fully prepared for the attack and confident of success without the help of the Allies. They were in considerable numerical superiority to the enemy on the whole front. Tins exaggeration also gives an entirely false impression of the enemy’s power of transporting large forces from east to west in a short time. BRITISH HELP FOR ITALY. 'London Times’ Telegrams). Received October 30, 12.50 p.rn. LONDON, Oct. 29. The. P.ritish Government has already taken steps to afford the fullest assistance to Italy. ROME, Oct. 29. The Giornale states authoritatively that the army is withdrawing to impregnable positions. iV >t ROYALIST CONSPIRACY IN FRANCE. Received October 30, 11.45 a.m. PARIS, Oct. 29. The military governor ordered a search of the offices of Royalist newspapers. Simultaneous searches elsewhere revealed stores of firearms that have been accumulated since the war; also documents disclosing a scheme tending to provoke civil war and plans for arming citizens. Proceedings have been commenced on charges of conspiring to produce civil war. CROWN PRINCE OF DENMARK DEAD. Received October 30. 11.45 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 29. Obituary: Prince Christian of Denmark. [lTis Royal Highness Prince Christian Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark, and Heir Apparent, was born on March 11,1899. and was thus in his nineteenth year, ITis brother, Prince Knnd, born on July 27, 1900, is next in line of succession.l GERMAN CHANCELLOR’S RESIGNATION. Received October 70. 11.40 a.m. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 29. German newspapers report that Dr. Michaelis has tendered his resignation an the Kaiser’s renresentative. The report ia unofficial, but is generally believed to bfi true. A RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE. Received October 30, 11.25 a.m. LONDON. Oct. 29. A wireless Russian official message savs: Our artillery dispersed the Austrians who were attempting to fraternise with onr troops in the Bystritza resion. Tlio Germans left the Werder Peninsula on Saturday.