STATEMENTS ITALIAN WAR MINISTER
CONCERTED MOVEMENTS PENDING. NEW YORK, May 20. According to a Rome message, the Minister, of War, after a protracted Council of War, issued a statement- regarding the military, situation, which is developing against the Austrian offensive,- and which, he declared, would leave the Italians in- a supreme position. - ' • ' He said there was an expectation of a general movement against the Austrians on the other fronts, especially in the Ballcaris and Russia, and besides these contemporaneous attacks were expected- to be sprung by Italy's allies in Prance.
.'VMilitary critics advise reconstructing the Italian front, abandoning the move advanced positions, in order to be able to repulse the Austrians' ■forward movement. • ■ Several indications confirm the statement that the design of the present strenuous campaign by the Austrians is to prevent Italy from, participating in the struggle on the. French front, a 3 d also to paralyse her action aiming at joining with the Salonika and Avlona forces in a simultaneous effort.
• Another message states that the Austrians have transferred to the Italian front a number of 380 and 420 millimetre guns taken from warships bottled up in: harbour at Pola. .
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Nelson Evening Mail, 25 May 1916, Page 5
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