WHAT THE GERMANS HOPE.
TO SAFEGUARD VENICE. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. LONDON, Nov. 13. Mr Ward Price reports that, ihe lighting on the Piave is likely to be chiefly an ar lillery duel, the Germans hoping-by superior weight tif metal to keep the Italian guns down sufficiently lo permii (hem lo throw pontoons across and give passage to their infantry without, heavy losses. 'Hie lighting draws nearer Venice, from which all civilians Have been encouraged lo leave by tree, trains. The Government, is doing everything in the hope of safeguarding the national, or rather world's possessions from the blind destructive fury of,war. A single hour's bombardment of Venice would destroy the irreparable treasures of ages. Therefore elaborate precaution;-, are being tuken to remove the slightest pretext for treating Venice, as a fortress. Nobody wearing a uniform i.-> permitted to enter the city. . ,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1012, 14 November 1917, Page 5
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