ITALY'S SINGLE-HANDED TASK.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17125, 29 October 1917, Page 5

ITALY'S SINGLE-HANDED TASK.

TO MEET ALMOST ENTIRE AUSTRIAN ARMY.

AND TEN GERMAN DIVISIONS.

(Main Service.) Received October 28, 5.5 p.m

LONDON, October 27

Mr. Ward Price, writing from Italian Headquarters on the Isonzo front, says: We are on the eve of one of those immensely powerful, longplanned drives with which the AustroGermans seek to crush an adversary by a single staggering blow. A 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 single-handed almost the entire Austrian army, with at least, ten German divisions, and new batteries of heavy guns, ranging all along the front. The fighting is swaying this way and that. The Italians at the first onset lost, some ground, but these are only the first sparring bl&ws. The heaviest possible fighting is going on in the Isonzo triangle, with Tolmino as the apex. The enemy are using overwhelming numbers of troops in an effort to thrust us from the Julian Plain.