SECOND EDITION. THE FIGHT FOR VENICE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1017, 20 November 1917, Page 5

SECOND EDITION. THE FIGHT FOR VENICE.

AUSTRO-G ERM A X HEINFORC'EMENTS POURING IN. enemy attacks on the piave BREAK DOWN. Rcifived November ,20. 2 p.m. ROME, Nov. 19. The military critic of ihe Comoro Delhi Sent sjivs according to prisoners statement* fresh, enemy contingents have arrived at Piave from the Russian front. The battle continues to grow in dimensions and intensive violence Genera Krobatiu is descending from Carina and Genera! Cadore is directing the attack, supported by lightning thrusts by Hootzonclorf on the Asiago plateau, but tho enemy attacks at Quoro. on the Have, broke down before the stubborn resistance of the Como Brigade. . The battle continues to develop violently in tho mountain regions of Trcntino. ITALIAN AND GERMAN REPORTS. Received November 20, 2 p.m. ROME, Nov. 19. An Italian official message says the enemy violently concentrated Ids lire on positions on the Asiago plateau, but did not attack. We. re-occupied the advanced trench at Clements. Strong enemy forces are attacking the Monte Lomba lines. Southward of Ouero we prevented fresh attempts to cross tho Piave. . , A wireless German official message says that between the coast and Beelaro firing continues with great Tho enemy fruitlessly made repeated attacks northeast of Asiago. Wc stormed Monte Cornello and drove tho enemy from ixrsitions on Monte Tomba, and prisonored 1100. ON THE WESTERN FRONT. Received November 20. 2.0 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 19. General Sir Douglas Haig reports successful raids in the neighbourhood of Money do Bronx, north of Roeux. * A French official message reports heavy mutual artillerying. GENERAL MAUDE’S DEATH. Received November 20, 2.0 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 19. The War Office reports that Genera! Maude died in Mesopotamia after a brief illness. AWARDED THE MILITARY MEDAL Received November 20. 2.0 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 19. Gunner C. Harvey, a New Zealander, has been awarded the Military Medal. NEW ZEALANDERS PUBLISH A BOOK. Received November 20. 2.0 p.m. LONDON. Nov. 19. New Zealanders at tho front have published a brilliant book. “Humours and Sketches of Campaign Life.” THAT NAVAL ENCOUNTER. THE GERMAN LOSSES IN HELIGOLAND BIGHT. Received November 20. 2.0 t>.in, AMSTERDAM. Nov. 19. Travellers from Germany state the Germans lost one. -possibly two, destroyers in the Heligoland encounter. Tho greater number of the crows perished.

At a meeting held this afternoon, at tho invitation of the Mayoress, to arrange for a "Pose Day" in aid of the Navy League funds, it- was decided k postpone thr> euorf til! later in the season. Two hundred pounds has already been 'orwarded from Palmerston to the Navy League.

With reference to the collision between two motor oars in the Mnnawatu Gorge on Sunday, Mr Osborne, of Tlawera, states that he was not driving one car as appeared in the paragraph in yesterday's issue. He was a passenger in the car. Mr Osborne also denies that Mr Bergersen's car was at a standstill. Both cars, he says, were moving slowly, and met at one of the awkward bends. At the Methodist Synod of the Hawke'a Bav-Manawntu District, held in Hastinga last week, it was reported that, (he £IO.OOO mark for foreign missions, set by the last conference, hud been exceeded by close upon £7OO. Rev. J. 11. Haslam, statistical secretary for the district, who was also elected secretary to the Synod, reported that the district contribution to the fund was. £I2OO. and that the appeal had in no way lessened the contributions of circuits to the Homo Mission Fund.

A neat joke in which tho public- censor figured is told by a soldier. Ho had not long returned to the Dominion, and was kept on duty on the ship, to tho staff ol which he was attached. Boutin need of money ho sent his sister a telegram which' contained the three simple hut eloquent letters: "S.O.S.'' .Many times previously he had used this wireiess term when wiring for money, but to his amazement on this occasion he received advice from th o Telegraphic Department that the •'message had not been delivered; the censor desired to know the meaning of 'S.O.S.' " Under the circumstances another and more explicit wire had to be sent, and this brought the required answer, but the soldier is confident that New Zealand's censor is anything but a humorist.

Two dogs given by Mr Von Blaremburg to bo auctioned for the Sick and Wounded Fund realised i'2. Tne Patriotic Society now desires to make acknowledgment of this amount for tho Manawatu Auctioneering Co.