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FIERCE BATTLE IN ITALY.

ENEMY MASS ATTACKS REPULSED.

LONDON, Dec. 15. An Italian official communiqué stutes:-

The battle between the Bresta and the Plave continues fiercely.

The enemy launched a ma attack at noon yesterday Our counter offensive, aiming at lightening the pressure, twice reached the suramit of Monte Perticu.....

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Our counter-attack completely re- pulsed the assault with heavy losses. The enemy re-attacked and reach ed Col Caprile. We firmly held the positions a little to the rear.

We twice repulsed strong attacka at the head of the Monte Solarolo anlient..

GERMAN REPORTS.

THE WESTERN, FRONT.

SIN DOUGLAS HAIG'S REPORT

LONDON, Dec. 16, Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig

We captured prisoners and machine-gan daring night putrol encounters southward of Cambrai. LATER s

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Huig reports:

We completely repulsed a local attack, gesterilay evening, to the east of Bullecourts,

We successfully carried out a raid, to the north of Bullecourt this afternoon, destroying dug-outs ural

pturing some prisoners.

Elsewhere, Portuguese troops cap- tured a few prisoners, in patrol -encounters.

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A German official report states:- The Austrians stormed the post tim to the south of Cylcaprile... taking several hundred prisonerg

THE DEFENCE OF YENETIA.

VAST STRETCH OF COUNTRY FLOODED

GERMAN REPORT.

A German official message statraí -We advanced our lines in the park, of Poezelboek Chateau

English attacks at Moněhy-and- Búllecourt_tiled.

FRENCH REPULSE A GERMAN ATTACK,

PAs, Dec. 16. A commeriqué states that a German attack was repulsed in Chaume Wood, the assailants being dispersed by French fire.

LONDON, Dec. 16.

LONDON, Dec. 16. Reuter's Correspondent with the French Army in Italy describing the artillery which is to defend the belt of Venice, which is entirely a naval, afair,

A French communiqué states states that a vast stretch of country bounded by the Afart and the Piave There was fairly great reciprocal rivera, has beer fooded in order to artillery activity between the Aisuo check the Austrians and the enemy can and the Oise and on the right of the never paas High banked roads and Meuse, notably in the sector of Le farm houses alone remain above water Chambrettes. Some of these farm bocses are held by: An attempted attack in the evening- Austrians and others by the Italians in Champagne, to the west of Mont and each seeks to destroy the enemy: Cornillet, broke down beid farms.There is awful desolation and Flanders alone is comparable to the dismalness of this wintry battlefield.

The Italians bave a formidable array of artillery, which is superior to that of the Austrians, on this, part of the Front. The Italias also have floating batteries which work hard at night in frustrating the enemy attempts to construct field- works and to lay bridges on boats

across the Piave,

Five German deroplanes wero". brought down and three others crashed down.

TWO BRITISH AIRSHIPS LOST.

LONDON, Dec. 15

The Admiralty, announces that a British airship of the non-rigid type. sagte with infürew of fire, proceeded on

The Correspondent coys that the patrol on December 11 from an cust statues in Venice have been bricked up const base and hes not returned. and the historic buildings protected by It is believed to have been destroyed and bags So far, only slight damage by a hostile seaplane, in the southerní has been done by seroplane-bombs part of the North Bes Most of the shops have closed and the gondolas have vanished, and only 1,000 out of 150,000 Venetians remain.

FURTHER ADVANCE IN PALESTINE

sotes:

A second airsbsp of a similar type, was forced to des

engine foilure in Holland, December 12.

BRITISH, DESTROYER SUNK

LONDON, Dec. 30

announces that a

Wan sunk on the

10 after!

The Admi LONDON, Dec. 18: official despatch from Palestine British destro

We advanced, on the felt centre, ccllision. Two of the crow are yesterday, to the north east of Ludd, missing.

on a front of five miles, to & maki- mum depth of one-and-a-half miles. There was little

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