The Italian Struggle.
REACHES A CLIMAX.
DESPERATE ENEMY ATTEMPTS
EVERYTHING STAKED .ON A
THROW.
LONDON, October 27
Mr. Ward Price, writing- from ■Itaiimi headquarters on tihe Isonzo front, says: — We are on the eve of on© of those immensely powerful long-planned drives with which the Austro- Germans 'sedk to crush their adversary by single staggering bibw.v The terrible crisis is ■coming when each side stakes all upon a throw. Millions'of men will be strained to the limit of exhaustion. Italy is about to meet singie-iianded almoti the entire Austrian ariny^ with fit least ten German divisons and new •batteries of heavy guns ranging: ad along the front, the fighting swaying this way aaid that. ri"lie Italians at the first onset l 0«; •some ground, buti these were only the first sparringl blows.
The- heaviest possible fighting ingoing on on the Isonzo triangle, wit 1 Tohinno as the apex.
The enemy is using overwhelming numbers of troops in the effort to thrust us from the Julian* plain.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18485, 29 October 1917, Page 3
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