SHORT SALIENT ENTERED.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14587, 14 December 1917, Page 5

SHORT SALIENT ENTERED.

ENEMY'S MAIN PLAN DEFEATED.

THE ITALIAN STRUGGLE.

NAVAL RAID AT TRIESTE.

TWENTY-ONE BRITISH SHIPS LOST LAST WEEK.

On Tuesday morning the Germans delivered an at* tack m great strength on a f cont of a mile east of Bullecourt alter a very heavy bombardment. At one point they succeeded in entering our advanced trenches on a short frontage forming a salient, hut everywhere else th?y wt're throwu hauk with heayy los^e-: Severe fighting continues on Asiago Plateau. Italian light craft entered Trieste, and attacked Austrian battleships, sinking the Wiei as reported yesterday. A further British advance in Palestine is announced., ■ During ths week ended 13th lost. 21. British steamers were sunk by submarines. In moving a vote of credit of 550 millions, Mr Bpntr Law siated that the daily cost of the war was now £6,691«,000.

The cable news in.this issue accredited to "The Times" has appeared in /ffiat journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial ■' opinion of 'The Times."