GERMAN GAIN NEGLIGIBLE.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14588, 15 December 1917, Page 5

GERMAN GAIN NEGLIGIBLE.

ITALIANS HARD PRESSED IN TRENTINO.

LARGE ENEMY CONCENTRATIONS.

CIVIL WAR IN RUSSIA.

Farther details of the German a'tack at Bullecourt sltow 'that escepfc fur the capture of oblit rated trenches, forming a salient, the enemy were repulsed with heavy loss. Sttvere fighting continues on a narrow front. The Italians by counter-attacks recovered most of the ground lost at BerHta. The enemy are massing lar^e forces in the Trentino where they possess a great superiority in artillery. The opening of the iius>ian Constituent Assembly whs farcical, only fifty members being prtsent. Am anti-tfolslieviki outbreak appears to be imminent at Petrograd. Severe fighting between Kaledin's and Kormiloff's troops and the Maximalists is reported.

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