BRITISH AMD FRENCH TROOPS ARRIVE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1015, 7 November 1917, Page 5

BRITISH AMD FRENCH TROOPS ARRIVE.

OUTLOOK MORE CHEERFUL. I Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. ROME, Nov. 6. i Generals Foch and Rir William Robertson have already joined General Cadorna. Correspondents describe the great demonstrations which took place while British troops were travelling to the front. Jhey wore offered flowers, fruit and tobacco by great, cheering crowds. i A Turin message states that the arrival of’the French troops also aroused unbounded enthusiasm, the soldiers fraternising with (In' people and singing the 1 Marsellaisc and Garibaldi’s by ran. The concentration towards a further resistance in the field is progressing. At night- every tram is loaded with men and material going to the front. The outlook is more cheering, and good news may be heard before long.

LEAVING THE TAGLIAMENTO. Received November 7, 11.35 a.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 6. It is reported that the Italians are retreatr ing from the Togliamcnta NO ENTHUSIASM IN GERMANY. LIKELY TO PROLONG THE WAIL Received November 7. 11.25 a.m. ROME. Nov. b. Telegrams from Ber'ne show thai efforts to evoke enthusiasm in Germany by bellringing- and flags, in Celebration of the Invasion of Italy, ended in disappointment. The people realise that it is likelier to prolong the war than to bring- peace. Many declare that the success in Italy doea not. balance, the reverses in the west, also that the masses of guns employed against Italy would be more useful on the west front. AUSTRO-GERMANS SURPRISED.

PARIS, Nov. &. The fact that General Foch in September drew up complete military plans with Cudorna accounts for the swi ft ness with which’the Anglo-French have reached the Italians, which has surprised the Aus-tro-Germans. BOLOISM IN ITALY. Mr Lloyd George and M. Painlovc have gone to Italy to give encouragement, advice and warning to Italy, particularly regarding Boloism iu Italy, which is of Socialist origin. A DEADLIER GAS THAN EVER. I AMSTERDAM, Nov. 6. The Gorizia correspondent of the Budapestc Hirlap states that the Austrians attacked tho city with a new poise* i gas, the invention of a Viennese professor. It is far more terrible and deadly than rmy hitherto used in tho war, and the Italian gas masks were of no avail to counteract its effects. SHOT AT UDIME. Received November 7, 11.25 a„nr. ROME, Nov. 6. General Von Bcrrcr was s hot wlul« motoring through Udine by a carabineer. Ho was not killed at Riga, us tho Germans 'stated.