FIERCE FIGHTING TO COME.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14539, 17 October 1917, Page 5

FIERCE FIGHTING TO COME.

HEAVY AUSTRIAN REINFORCE-

MENTS

(United Service.)

(Received Oct. 17, 1 a.m.)

London, Oct. 16.

Mr W. Jefferies says there are prospects of the fiercest fighting jet on Bainsizza Plateau. The enemy's artillery fire is heavier and more distributed, and the. reinforcements of Austrians from the' Russian..front"are mere intense. , The airmen report that tho roads are filled with troops and. material.

The Austrians are also reinforcing tho Isonzo from the Trentino. The fotal reinforcements siiiee August probaoly amount to 100,000.