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VOLL XV o b son
U. 5. TROOPS KILLED IN BATTLE
C;)al%C;is’i; Needs Drastic H;na, éa;s Garfield
PLOT ON ITALIAN KING IS REVEALED
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' SEATLE, WIS., Nov. 27.—More than
100 men, all of them alleged to be
death-dealing Italian anarchists and
revolutionists, are under arrest in
Seattle and other northwestern citi s
as the result of a gigantic world plot
of German origin to disrupt the Ital
‘an army and assassinate Victor
4!.'mmanuel
' The capture by United States offi
cers permits the disclosure for the
first time of what the Federal offi
eers assign as the answer to a ques
ticn that has been on the hips of mil
lions and that has puzzled the Al'ied
nations of the world—the reason for
the sudden and mysterious co'lapse
of he Italian army becfore the Austro
'}German attack.
" The answer grows out of the ar
rests, and, according to a series of
amazing disclosures made here today
by Government officials, is furn'shed
in a far-reachirg intrigue carried
forward in the United States and
Italy under the red flag of anarchy.
The anarchists’ organization is
known to the Government as the Cir
eola Studi Sociali, with Pacifict Coast
haadquarters here Federal officials
tbday described this band as a secret
/mciety of direct actionists and bomb
throwers, with murder and assassina
tion as the cardinal principles of its
creed,
L '(By International News Service.)
ROME, Nov. 27.—Repulse of an en
tire division of Austro-Germans with
heavy losscs in fighting on the north
ern front was announced in today's
official statement. A large number of
yrisoners were taken.
“For a time,” the statement added,
“the batt'e assumed a grave aspect,
but Italian reinforcements arrived in
time to save the situation.”
(Bv Internatioral News Service.)
. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—From
the Asiago to the Plave the Austro-
Germans have suffered appalling
losses without gaining any advan
tage, according to an official cable
gram from Rome today. Between
the Piave and the Brenta the enemy
“has already worn out six divisions,
these disptachns to the Embassy say.
. The cablegram quotes The Rome
Tribuna’s correspondent as saying
the forces of Krobatin and Von Bue
low united in the mountainous zone
between the Piave and Brenta Riv
ers, made a desperate effort to break
throuzh the line, availing themselves
of their enormous reserves, estimated
at twenty divisions and easi'y shift
ed. With large forces hidden in th 2
thickness of the forests, at one pointt
Ja small patrol of Prussians with ma
"¢hine guns was sent forward to gath
er information and prepare the at
tack. Shortly after the Austro-Ger
mans appcared in thick waves and
delivered a furious assault.
Wishing to avenge the wounding
of one of their officers ,the Italians
launched a bayonet atiack with such
wiolence that all the Austro-Germans
W 0 reacned the Italian line were
completely wiped out. The enemy
renewed his efforts and de'ivered at
tock after attack with unabated fury
In the confusion of the struggle
some enemy outposts fought among
Mhemscives the Thirty-first Land
“sturm, in action near Monte Frior,
fighting an entire night against other
. Austro-German troops, which were
totally &imated.
Eight Move Deaths
At Wheeler; Ninet
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t Wheeler; Ninety
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Cases of Pneumonia
MACON, Nov. 27.—Eight more
deaths have occurred at the base
hospital at Camp Wheeler during
the last twenty-four hours, They
are as follows:
Clinton Caldwell Company I,
124th Infantry, New Berlin, Fla.;
Leroy N. Beck, 27, (no address
given); Frank Neighbors, Talla
hassee, Ala.; John G. Green,
Company G, 1224 Infantry, Mor
ganton, Ga.; Wesley W. Keen,
Company 1, 124th Infantry, Mo
mac Ga.; H.'S. Wilson, Company
L, 124th Infantry, Lake City, Fla.;
Charles J. Connell, Naylor, Ga.;
George Edwards, Company D,
121st Infantry, Egypt, Ga.
Street funerals of the victims
in Macon have been abandoned
until the epidemic is over. There
are ninaty cases of pneumonia at
the camp. The number of cases
of measles is decreasing,
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Shots Are Firedin
Chase of Automobiles
Res'd"nts of the fashionable Dru‘d
Hills section were thrilled Tuesday
morning by an exciting automobile
chase, In which the pursuer was fran
tically firing a pistol at the automobile
of the pursued. :
The pursuer won. He was Deputy
Sheriff Jackson, from Athens, who had
discovered two m-cn trving to strip
equipment from his automobile ag it
stood parked on one of the houlevards.
The men jumped Into a big Cadillac
and fled, with the determined deputy
following clos<ly in his own machine.
Jackson pulled his pistol and fired at
the wheels on the Cadillac, puncturing
the reur tires.
The punctures brought the big ma
chine to a halt. One of the men es
caped, but the other was arrested and
is held at police headquarters. He
gave his name as L. S. Sladamyre, of
No. 223 South Pryor street. The po
lice recovered from the automobile a
number of accessories which they be
l'eve were stolen.
Casings found in the Cadillac were
identified as property stolen from F.
C. Wilkinson, or No. 72 West Eleventh
street,
.
Bardits Get $35.000
DETROIT, Nov. 27.—Word reached
Detroit police this afternoon that
bandits had attacked the Huebner
Brewery Company paymaster and es
caped with $35,000 in cash.
['he Investment Value of
Southern Farm Lands
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investment not only increasing in intrinsic va.ue but land
so favored by location that it can be made to pay large
dividends in productive crops of various kinds.
No safer investment for money can be found than the
Southern farm lands ofiered for sale over in The Geor
gian and American’s “Farm Lands” columns. If you are
also looking for a home, you will find them equally as de
sirable. You have only to read these co umns from day
to day and to investigate their claims thoroughly to find
just what you want
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your own under “Farm Lands Wanted,” describing just
the kind of tract you desire.
Both reading and using these land columns will bring sat
isfactory results. When you use an ad of your own, leave
it, when ready, with or
Telephone It to The
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Georgian and American
M.ain 100 or Atlanta Mainr 8000
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Drastie
measures to secure needed fuel for
the country were suggested to Presi
dent Wilson by Fuel Administrator
Garfield this afternoon. Mr. Garfield,
face to face with coal famine in va
rious sections of the country, which
threatens seriously to impair the mu
nitions supply and other war essen
tials, believes drastic measures must
be taken if serious results are to be
avoided.
While information concerning his
plans was withheld pending action by
the President, it is understood that
they include pooling of the entire
coal supply of the country and put
ting into effect a system of distribu
tion which will do away with con
gestion now existing at railway
junction points.
Under the Garfield plan, his repre
sentatives would have control of all
coal mines everywhere, and would
report the supply on hand daily so
that it could be distributed to the
points where most needed.
Sen. Reed Urges U. 8.
Build Freight Cars
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—“1 favor
the immediate expenditure by the
Government of $100,000,000 for freight
cars to relieve the traffic congestion.”
James Reed, United States Senator
from Missouri, made this statement
when he returned to Washington
for the December session of Congress,
“It should have been done last
session when Senator Smith propos
ed it,” he added.
Senator Reed added there should
be a general upward revision of
wages. ‘“As prices keep soaring the
purchasing power of the inividual
must be increased,” he said.
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Basis of Hetty Green's
Riches toybe Split
(By International News Service.)
“ BOSTON, Nov. 27.—The full benech
of the Supreme Court today decid-d
the $1,000.000 trust fund enjoyed dur
ing hor life time by the late *Hetty
H. R. Green, and which was the
foundation #:pon which she huilt her
colossal fortune, must be divided into
45 parts ond distributed among the
heirs of Gid~on Rowland, cr ator of
the trust fund, who died in 1823,
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1917
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(By International News ‘Service.)
LONDON, Nov. 27.—Re-forming
‘heir shattered forces, the Germans
renewed their counter attacks in
front of Caumbral last night, but ail
were repu'sed, the Wa; Office an
nounced today.
British positions at the northeast
corner of Bourlon wood were heavily
assaulted, but the attacks were crush
-2d by the terrific fire of British ar
ti'lery and machine guns.
Burlon wood, which was the scene
‘of violent Hghting Sunday, lles about
three miles west of Cambrai and
Just north of the ruins of what was
once the village of Fontaine Norte
Dame. It rests on high ground.
which dominates the German strong
hold of Cambral, and so long as they
retain it the Britisn can rake Cambrai
with their fire.
Bourlon wood is the farthest point
that the British lines have been ad
vanced in the encircling movement
against Cambrai, and the Germans
are struggzling furiously but fruit
‘essly to dislodge them. The wool
s slightly less than two miles from
the Arras-Cambrai road and when
this highway is cut Field Marshal
Haig's forces will have opened the
way for a drive behind the defense
of Queant. |
Field Marshal von Hindenburg, the
iriving for.e of the great German ’ma
chine, has ordered that Cambrai be
keld “to the last man,” according to
statements made by prisoners captur
<d in the fierce struggle raging around
Bourlon wood. ‘
As the German line in the wesl]
stands today the fall of this strong-]
hold would be a strategic calamity to
the Germans, and th: divisions bat
tered into wrecks by the British drive
against the Ca.m))rai defenses are be
ing re-formed and sent back into the |
fray as fast as the officers can per
form the task. |
. German artillery, held in reserve at!
the base of Lille, has been rushed to
the front and is now posted behind
Cambrai, Queant and Bourbon ghell
ing tr - British lines. That Field Mar
sha' Haig has the Germans guessing
is shown by, their nervousness.
Dispatches from the front today
said that German batteries all along
the front from Lens to St. Quentin
keep a steady shower of star shells
illghting up the fleld from sunset to
‘dawn, not knowing where the next
‘thrust will be made.
. The Germans apparently fear the
British tanks more than they do the
infantry, for tank attacks delivered
on the first day of the attack did
more than anything else to smash
the Hindenburg line, and they have
put a wholesome fear into the hearts
of the Teutons.
In fromt of Cambrai the British
have continued to launch their chief
pressure northwest of Cambrai, at
tempting to drive between the Ger
man base and Queant and thus get in
the rear of the German defenses
along the Drocourt-Queant switch, a
series of positions supporting the
northern end of the Hindenburg fine.
.~ The big obective of the British
'which lies beh.nd all of the offensive
operations in northern France since
the opening of the attacks in the
spring is to break through to the
French coal fields and industrial dis
trict which lie behind the Hindenburg
line.
Military experts express the opin
jon that the fighting will continue
through the winter in spite of in
clement weather and muddy terrain.
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Bolsheviki Heads
Claim Vote Victory
(By International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 28.—Bolshe
viki leaders in Petrograd today de
clared that the national election has
gone in their favor, says a dispatch
from Petrograd.
The foregoing dispatch had evident
ly been sgent lLefore the result was
known as when balloting began on
Sundz}y it was stat:d in Petrograd
that it would last four days on ac
count of the great extent of terri
tory covered and the demoralized
condition of communication. All men
and women above the age of 20 are|
entitled to vote in the Russian elec-'
tion. It is the first to be held since
their republic was established.
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First Maine Heavy Artillery and
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| Seventh U. S. Regiment
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l Elevens to Play. |
1
| CHARLOTTE, N. C. Nov. 27.—A
game of football, in which a dozen or
| more ex-players from Princeton,
Dartmouth, Andover and other lead
ing colleges will take part, is sched
uled for Saturday, December 1, on
the gridiron at Wearn Field here,when
the eleven from the First Maine
Heavy Artillery at Camp Greene willj
fight for goals against the crack team
of the Seventh Regiment, Ui 8 A.
. 'To make the occasion *g “inter
esting, there will be a seleet band of
200 pieces picked from the dozen mil- |
iitary bands at the camp, to render
- martial music whenever a touchdown}
is scored, while Brigadier G . neral
Sweetzer, camp commander, will at
itend and review the troops, who will}
' be marched over to the field for the
| game. ‘
Tne proceeds will be given to the
dcpendents’ fund of the American
Red Cross.
Among tb” veterans of former bat
tles over .ne pigskin taking part in
the game will be Edgar Curtis, Dart
mouth halfback; Tudor Gardiner, of
Harvard; “G nger” Frazer, of Colby,‘
and others, on the First Maine team,
while the Seventh Regiment will have]
a half dozen old veterans of the foot
ball game,
Favoralz comments are being ut
tered on tiie health of the 20.000 men
now at Camp Greene, as compared
with health reports from many other
camps. While pneumonia has taken
hcavy toll at several camps Camp
Greene has had but four d~aths since
September 1, and none within the
t two weeks' time. The camp site
| is regarded by mi'itary men and med
, ical corps officers as one of the most
| sanitary in the South. |
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In order to meet the requ'rements
of the colored troops at Camp Greene,
who have just arrived from Vermont
| ana Massachusetts, a provisional bat
y talion with co'ored ./fficers from each
of the two States, special tents have
been erected for the en‘ertainment ot
these troops, corresponding to the Y.
M. C. A hauts alrcady In use at the
camp. The colored troops were given
a rcgimental reservation near the'
center of Camp Greene, and are now
well established in their new quar
ters. It is probable that sev-ral hun. 3
dred other colored troops will be add- .
ed to the population of the camp
during the ear'y winter.
Fol'owing close on thr~ heels of the
’statem'-nt that Major General Dick
jman had been ordercd from Camp
Custer eantonm-nt to take command
'at Camp Greere is another rumor that
Major General French, now at Camp
Jackson, Columbia, 8 C., will be or
dered here. The report as to General
™rkman was sent out from R~ttle
'Creek Mich,, and sta‘ed without res
-lervavion that G -neral D'ckman would
assume command at the locar camp.
lPr*’gadier General Sweetzer was
p'aced in comma~d only five Jays
ago. succred'ng Cclonel Frank Jones,
until that date ranking officer at the
camp with the United States regu
!lars, Camp Greene, since |t was
placed unier military regime in Oc
tober, has had not less than sev-n
changes in its commanding officers,
t Major General Liggett holding the
short record of less than twenty hours
as military head of the camp.
After hours, of fruitless search,
county police Tuesday at 10 o'clock
abandoned the theory that Mrs. H.
W. Finch and her two-year-cld
daughter, missing from their home at
No. 67 North Howard street, Kirk
wood, had been drowned. The search
was taken up in Atlanta.
A hat and two coats found on the
river bank near Bolton Monday were
identificd as those of the mother and
baby. The conclusion was drawn
that Mrs. Finch, whose health had
been poor for some, had sought the
death of herseif and her baby, At
once the dragging of the river be
gan.
Early Thursday, however, Captain
Cheshire, of the County Police, di
recting the search, was given evl-'
dence that Mrs. Finch probably had[
returned to Atlanta after placing the
garments on the river bank. The in
formation came from a resident of
Cobb County, a fruit tree agent, who
said that late Saturday afternoon, as
he stood at the end of the River car
line, a woman carrying a baby ap
proached him and asked the best‘
way to get to Atlanta. Both were
bareheaded, he gaid.
The Cobb County man told Captain
Cheshire he instructed the woman to]
walk down the car line to Fisher
avenue, which is the b-cent fare lim
it, and there to board a car bound for
the city. She left him going in that
direction, he declared.
Another indication that the mother
and baby were not drowned wz;,as|
found in the lack of any signs ofl
their bodies in the river, although an
exhaustive search was made for al
mile or two up and down the river
from the bridge at Bolton. The wa-'
ter was extremely low, because the
dam at Bull Sluice, above Bolton, Is‘
closed every night, and the bed of
the stream is visible in most places.!
Mrs. Finch is the wife of an ad
juster of commercial accounts, whol
is connected with the law offices of
Councilman W, 8. Dillon, l
Mrs. Finch was said to have been
in {ll heal'h of late, and her nusnand,
an adjuster of commercial accounts,
who is connected with the law offices
of Zouncilman W, 8. Dillon, feared
she had taken her own life and that‘
of the baby girl. |
Mr. Finca discovered the 'flsappear-!
ance of his wife and baby Saturday
night on his return from a trip out‘
of the city., No note or other clew
had been left, the first intimation as
to the possible whereabouts of moth
er and babe being the reported find
ing of the coats and hat. i
These articles were ldentlfled‘
through a purchase ticket of a down
town department store, which wu(
found in the pocket of Mrs. Finch'l!
coat.
Mrs. Finch has two other girls, aged‘
5 and 7, who were left at home whenl‘
she went away with the baby. {
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State Witness Balks |
%lg n Called in Tria
en Called in Trial
(By International News Service.)
SAN FRANCISCO Nov. 27.—A
scnsation was sprung in the trial of
thirty-three busincss men, former
German agents and Hindu revolution.
ists, charged with fomenting a reve
olution in India, when Jodh Singh, the
Government’s star witness, refused
absolutely to testify when called te
the witness stand. He said he would
“gtand by his brothers,” and he be
zcame a defendant.
| Assistant United States Attorney
lAnnette Adams said reports that
Sirgh had been tampered with by
German spies would be investigated.
3 CENTS
New Chancellor
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ToGive Reichstag
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His Peace Views
(By International News Service.)
rTHE HAGUE, Nov. 27.—~Count
r von Hertling, the new Ger
man Chancellor, will deliver
his ma’'dan speech in the Reichs
tag Saturday, according to a re
port from Berlin today.
It added the speech would deal
with the peace outlook.
It had previously been stated in
dispatches from Berlin that the
Reichstag would not convene until
December 3. The Reichstag Main
Committee is scheduled to meet
before that date.
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Second Jail Delivery in Week at|
the Police Station—Turnkey 1
.
Again Suspended. ‘
\
Four United States soldlers, posst
bly practicing the time-honored
‘methods of escaping prisoners in the
‘event that Huns get them, “dug out”
jof the police barracks early Tuesday
‘morning—tunneled thelr way through
‘a thick but very fragile brick wall.
and escaped, |
And poor old Tom Bayne, turnkey,
is again the goat.
- Tom {s out of luck, it appears. Six
‘days ago R, C. Jester, an auto thief
‘escaped by the same method. It did
not appear to have been Tom's fault.
If you can’t trust a brick wall, what
can you trust? is the way Tom looks
at it.
- But Jester escaped and Tom was
suspended for five days. Tom got
back on the jch at midnight between
Monday and Tuesday. It was just
in time for him to be another goat:
for at 3 o'clock it was discovered that
the four soldiers had tunneled
through the brick wall in another
place and made their way out of what
is called the “city corridor,” where
the prisoners not held on State
charges ‘are locked up. ‘
Suspended Again. |
And now Tom is suspended again,
because of course somebody has to be
punished when things go wrong, and
they can’t find the brick masons who
put sour mortar in that wa'. some
generations agu, 80 the bricks woum‘
all loosen up like a Marcel wave in
the surt and come apart with a little
prodding.
The soldiers are as follows:
Walter Domitrovitch, Battery A,
Fort uglethorpe, churged wilh & mo
tor cav thert, |
F. B. ba., Company I, 122 d Infan
try, Camp Wheeier, charged wiin a
motor car theft; capiured at lem
vie, Ga.
J. H. Corder and Walter Fowler,
Jr,, Company G. 113th Infautry, Camp
Sevicr; coarged with apsence wilhout
leave, |
‘ Tear Up Steel Bunk. |
The four men were locked in one
big cell in the city corridor, guarded
ou one side by steel bars and un the
other (presumably) by the brick wall
at the end of the corridor. About
miduight they tore up a steel bunk
and used portions of it to loosen and
pry bricks from the wall.
With very little trouble and prac
ticaliy no noise they made an open
ing large e¢nough for a whole Key
stone company to tall through, and
(as the oid-time novelisis put it)
‘breathed once more the air of free
‘dom.
- That is te say, they beat it.
_And poor old Tom is the goat again,
"He is suspended aftcr about three
‘hoars’ re.nstatement, and will remain
‘suspendod until the board meets De
cemb«r 11, when his case will be cun
sidered.
Situation in Ital
aly
Same, Berlin Says
BERLIN, Nov. 27.—There is no
| change in the situation on the Italian
front, the German War Office an
’nonnced today.
British forces under cover of dark
‘ness attacked German positions at
Bourlon wood and at the village of
Bourlon (west of Cambrai), but were
' repulsed, the War Office reported to
'day. The struggle was marked by
fierce hand-to-hand fighting, the
| statement sald.
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UN TRAINS,
FIVE CENTS,
NO. 97
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Two
American soldiers were killed and five
seriously wounded in an encounter
with Germans November 20. The
casualty list was given out by the
War Department this afternoon, but
details of the action were withheld.
The dead are: '
Private Harry 8. Miller, field ar
tillery, next of kin Mrs. S. Copeland,
No. 1602 Center street, Baker, Oreg,
Private Charles Rissmiller, fi-ld ar
tillery, next of kin, Clara R. Rissmiz
ler, moiher, Reading, Pa.
The severely wounded are:
Sergeant Julian M. Peel, *field ars
tillery; next of kin, Z. B. Pzel, Hart
well, Ga.
Sergeant Andrew Engstrom, fleld
artillery, wife, Mrs. C., Engstrom,
Fort Sill, Okla.
Private Harry C. Watkins, field ar
tillery, mother, Mrs. Fannie D. Wat
kins, North Bend, Oreg.
Private Oscar F. Jones, field artils
lery, mother, Mrs. Marion Jones, Lu
cas, Ohio,
Private Joseph Lewitt, fleld artile
lery, friend, Roy Woodside, Mount
Holly, N. J.
British Laud Work
0f U. 8. Destroyers
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—The
work of the American naval flotilla
in European waters aagin has been
warmly commended by Vice Admiral
Bailey, the British official in charge
of the general submarine operations
of the British fleet. Information
reaching here today states that the
British Vice Admiral has sent to Ad
miral Benson, now'in Paris, attend«
ing the interallied conference there,
a lengthy communication reciting
notable work by various units of the
American squadron and praising by
name Vice Admiral Sims and several
subordinates.
The American destroyers, in addi
tion to their general work of escort
ing transports and mercHant vessels
through the submarine zone are tak
ing over certain sections of the
French and British coast ag their
own, and are operating there with
seaplanes and new types of subma
rine catchers.
The American-British-French an
ti-submarine squadrons now are car
rying the war directly to the sub
marine. They have adopted new
plans, which officials here said today
are most effective. :
As a result, the German U-boats
no longer find an open lane to the
Atlantic, and severa! of them have
recently been driven into shallow
waters and destroyed. The German
yards are reported to be again work
ing night and day turning out sub
marines of the biggest type, pre
sumably for a general raid in mid
ocean and possibly on the Atlantic
coast of the United States in the
spring.
Seasoned Veterans
Reinforce Italians
(By International News Service,)
ROME. Nov. 27.—Seasoned French
and British veterans, who have faced
German drum fire, poisoned gas and
liquid fire on the wess rn front, are
now joining the Italians in counter
attacks against tne Austro-German
llnvaders on the Asiago plateau.
Advices from the front today told
of the arrival of “fresh reinforces
ments.” e § ey