GREAT ITALIAN OFFENSIVE

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11697, 17 October 1916, Page 5

GREAT ITALIAN OFFENSIVE

SEVENTY-TWO HOURS’ ATTACK. THE STORMING OF A THOUSAND GUNS. Reuter. Received Oct. 17, noon. Zurich, Oct. Ig. ' Telegrams from the Austrian front state that 200,000 Italians have been incessantly attacking Uhe Carso for hours, and a thousand guns have been firing violently and nnlnteirnptedly for eleven days and nights. Storming columns advance in narrow, deep formation in continuous waves accompanied by machine guns and even cannon. BLOOD POISNING IN GERMANY DUE TO TINNED FOOD. Received Oct. 17, 11. a.m. Amsterdam, Oct-. 16. Serious blood poisoning, due to tinned food,' is spreading in Germany. There arg thousands of cases in the large cities.