ITALIAN FRONT.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue 13601, 4 November 1918, Page 4

ITALIAN FRONT.

(Australian and Jf.ZvCablc Association) ; Received November 4," at 10.15 a.m. LONDON, November 3. > •4n ' Italian. Official message . states: The First Army., entered into action yesterday, and captured' Mount Majo. The Sixth Army continues its- advance on the Asiago Plateau, ' capturing . numerous guns and prisoners. There islively rearguardfighting in .the < Sugana and - Cismoii VmleySj -_our cavalry, fighting, reaching 'the right bank of she Tagliamento; ~ The numbers' of prisoners and booty are in- • creasing. • : A 'British Italian official message states: We axe well t» "the eastward of the Livenza river. The prisoners captured by the Tenth Army exceed 15,000, -with 150 guns,- of wbfcm 10,000 prisoners and over 100 guns were" captured by the Fourteenth British Corps. In the operation on the Asiago plateau the Forty-eighth Division took" 200 prisoners. ASSASSINATION OF COUNT TISZA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) Received November 4, at 9 a.m. COPENHAGEN November 3. The National Tidende's - Berlin correspondent. states tlhat three soldiers gained' admission to Count Tisza's house ou Thursday, and entered a room where Count Tisza,' hiis wife, and the Countess Almassy were. . Count Tisza drew a revolver. The ladies refusedl to leave the room. One soldier, addressing Count' ' Tisza,- "said: "It is your fault that millions have perished. You brought about the war." Count Tisza denied the responsibility. The : ladies again refused the soldiers' request to depart. The three'then fired their rifles at Tisza, crying: "Thei hour of reckoning has arrived l ." Count Tisza fell at the women's feet, and died almost immediately. One bullet slightly wounded the Countess Aim assy after passing through Tisza. The soldiers escaped'. COMING OF DEMOCRACY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) AMSTERDAM, November 2 On the occasion of the Constitutional developments coming into force, the Kaiser issued a decree endorsing the decisions of the Reichstag, and avowing liis determination to co-operate in their full development. TARTAR MASSACRE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) STOCKHOLM. November 2 Russian messages report that Turkish Tartars massacred 15,000 Armenian women and children, also the patients in lie Baku hospital. Some of the doctors and nurses committed suicide to avoid' torture. PRESERVING HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assii.) LONDON. November 1. Sir Auckland Geddes, in a speech at a luncheon given by the Federation of British Industries, said that the most urgent problem after the war would be the national health. Nothing>was more ! appalling than the results of the military service medical examinations. Hundreds of thousands of men of military age were found to be dying from preventable tuberculosis. He was not ; surprised at industrial unrest. He only wondered there had not been a revolution years ago. -Britain had taken more interest in prize pigs than British manhood. Dr Addison said that the Govern- ' ment's first business after the war must be the re-establishment and protection of the basic industries and the liberation of raw materials. Industry'must be freed at the earliest possible moment. g i 11'