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THE ITALIAN FRONT..

ITALIANS INNËSISTIBLY ADVANS CING TO THE SEA.

THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

STRIKING MESJADE BY WAR MINISTER.

- PETROONILAD, May 27. M. Kerensky, the Minister of War, Braun May 27.

in a striking niessige to the Forces The Italians are now making direct again insisting on the need for iron discipline, declares that if soldiem. ·

Dt.

the

eontact with the forces western slope of Hermaa. They have taken important material, a large amber of prisoners and have silenced the Austrian artillery which, is now withdrawing in order to avoid capentre.

The battle continues most intensely

on the whole of the Carso and Tanzo! fronts.

The Italians are advancing slowly but rresistibly, from Monte Kuk to the su

FURTHER BRILLIANT SUCCESSES.

-Lansons, May 27.

An Italian cial report states: We have exterxled our positions

on the south part of the platen.

Ou fourth day of the furious

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other sector.

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battle in Carso we not wily main-midegs appeared over the coast town,

fron inland. The first bomb crushed There has been artillery activity down into a thoroughfare in the lower- the whole day on the whole line. quieter which wird" crowded with

Bysa brilliant assault we reached trippers. inching a point beyond the Moafulcone qene of women and children. It potato Duine milway, north-west of Sunused more casualties than numer. Giovanni, curried Hill 145 south-west | ous other berahs. When the columu of Medenzza, captured a field battery of black moke bad dispersed, the of ten guns with ammur on-and 812 prisoners, of whom 34 uretret, for 200 yards; resenibled a shunibles of dead and dying human beings and disembowelled horses. Northward of Joniano there us The shops of a greengrocer, a butcher been a series of violent attacka undi

and a draper were bere demolished. counter-attacks, We reached and It is feared that there may still ber"

victims under the debris.

officers."

At

pussed Castagna vizzi, but concen- tmted enemy artillery compelled us another place a bomb made an

enormous hile in

the roadway, smashing to atoms number of

to evacuate it.

We "maintained our hold on the western boundary,

We brilliantly carried the heights tube and killing the horses, but the momentarily

at the brud of the Pulliovi Volley

drivers, who were

in the Plavu sector, took 438 prison-abst, escaped. A girls school and a hotel were demolished, but the ers, a gun and two trench mortars.feer was temporarily sensatiers

BRITISH NAVAL FORCE ASSISTS ITALIAN OFFENSIVE.

It

ROME, May 95.

is semi-officially announced that with the object of assisting the offensive at Carso, British monitors with naval forces and Italian, aeroplanes made prolonged and effective attack with heavy guns from the Gulf of Trieste in

am there were no victims

Eyewitnesses describe the perfec formation maintained by the air aquadrons during the quarter of an hour's visit. There was no panic, the people rushing into the streets

the spectacle.

to

Complaints have been made thas

a number of Gerinan abop keepers:

the rear of the enemy's hinés, especially are still allowed in this particular

on the great air station depots, and town.

other importaut military objects

near Prosecco. The enemy's repeated GERMAN AIR-RAIDS ON DANUBE

sir attacks only resulted in our aviators bringing down two of his sea- planes. Italian warships rescued four aviators, despite the fire from enemy batteries. All our naval and aerial aaits participating in the attack return ed to their bases without the slightest damage. No enemy flag was seen at se axcept those on the seaplanes brought

GOOD WORK BY FRENCH AIR

SQUADRONS, AN

Loynoy, Blay 23,

A French communiqué reports:- A German attempt to the north of Lafaux Mill failed under our fire:

Four Gerragnaemplanes were brought down:

TOWNS.

PETROGRAD May 26: There have been several raids ar

Cermann airerait recently, on towns on the Danube.

There have been many casualties, especially at Ismail.

RUSSIA AND THE DARDANELLES,

PARIS, May 27.

A telegram from Petrograd states that M. Miliukoff, in a speech, said that the essential point was not whether the Dardanelles should be Russian or neutral, but whether they should ra Russian or German. The Allies recogni

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sed Russia's right to the Dardanelles, not merely to favour Russia, but so Our air squadrons dropped three tons ensure that the Stmits should not fall of bombs on military establishments and into the hands of Germany,

factories, causing several fires, one of which was very violent. They also heavily bombed the serodromes at Colmar and Sasone and un'organisation: in the region of Laon

THE BRITISH FRONT

LONDON, May 29 Field Marshal ár, Douglas, Haig

We sucessfully carried out

SWEDISH SHIPS CAPTURED BY GERMAN SUBMARINE.

PETROGRAD, May 26,

A German ibmarine has captured five Swedish, ships in the Gulf of Bothnia, in two days.

May 26

north-west of St

Si Swedish steain Ags to Finland, were

hostile atteck to the wem captured in

taken to Swine

unde.