SANGUINARY CONTEST IN PROGRESS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12193, 17 December 1917, Page 5

SANGUINARY CONTEST IN PROGRESS.

BOTH PARTIES WATCH BAROMETER. BRITISH DESTROYER LOST, CAMBRAI REVERSE—INQUIRY OR9EREO, SAVIOURS OF PARIS-CHORAL CELEBRATION.

THE MAILED FIST.

Mr Ward Price says flint both sides are fighting i n Italy with one eye on the barometer. The Italians hope to hold up the advance until snows in the Alps impose a v. liite truce. If the enemy fail to win the Piave Plain all their previous reckless sacrifice of' life will have been in "vain. Never in living memory has the winter been so belated. Fierce fighting is in progress between the Brenta and the Piave. A British destroyer sank in consequence of a collision. Sir Douglas Haig has ordered an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the recent reverse at ( amorai. A historic event, in the shape of a choral celebration in honour of the first seven divisions of the old British Army, who stemmed the German tide in I■' PI. was held in the Albert Hall, London, and was a pronounced success. The " Neue Frcie Press" and " Peirh's Post state that the Central Emperors will impose such peace eondi"tions on Serbia and Rumania that both will henceforward be economically dependent on (iermany and Austria. The " Daily Chronicle's '' Pefrograd correspondent reports that twenty Social Revolutionary delegates, finding soldiers prohibiting entrance to the debating chamber of the Constituent Assembly, held a meeting in the * library, when an officer ordered them out. declaring all meetings illegal. The Red Guards have seized the Taurida Palace, preventing the deputies from entering. The French Minister of Marine states that real progress has been made in the fight against submarines.

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