Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-11-30
ALLIED ARMIES ON
THE ITALIAN FRONT
BRITISH AND FRENCH TO AID
ITALIAN TROOPS IN REPUlS-
ING THE HUNS.
The Allied Reinforcements Bring with
Them Large Numbers of Guns and
Huge Supply Trains and
Are Eager for Fray.

Washington.-Ap the peril
Of the Italian troops guarding the
Piave line and the hill country In
northern Italy against the Teutonic al
lies is Mt an end. Large numbers OF
British and French reinforcements-
infantry and artillery-at last have ar
rived upon the scene, after days OF
anxious waiting in which the Italians
have borne the brunt of terrific Tight
ing on both fronts solely on their own
shoulders and kept back the enemy
from further invasion of the Vene-
tian plain.
Although faced everywhere by SUI
perior numbers of men and guns, the
Italians have valiantly defended every
foot of ground in the hills and along
the Pave and in the former region in
recent days actually have taken the
offensive against the invaders and
pushed them back from strategic
points of vantage they had almost
gained under terrific sacrifices of lives.
Had Long March.
For eight days the allied reinforce
ihthbo titi " TIC ANoNutt bAAhS
ing along with them large numbers of |
guns and huge supply trains. All the |
troops are declared to be in fine fettle |
and eager to test their strength |
against the enemy.
Just where the British and French
forces will be thrown into the fray
has not been made known, but doubt
less large numbers of them will be
used to strengthen the italian front
on the north, from Lake Garda east
ward to the Piava, where the Austro-
Germans have been making their
strongest efforts to pierce the italian
line.
AT last accounts General Byng's
British troops before Cambria were
holding in their entirety the Bourbon
positions west of Cambria. Since their
repulse of Sunday the Germans had
failed to renew their counterattacks
Only minor operations have taken
place on any sector of the front where
Byng's men last week carried out their
swift and spectacular operation which
'esulted in the smashing of the famous
line.
Germans RepuIsed at Verdun.
Along the Observation-Disclosures and in
he Verdun region violent artillery :
luels are in progress between the ,,
french and the Germans. In the latter
ector the Germans several times es-
aged attacks with the purpose of re-
apturing ground taken from them on
sunday, but were met with repulses. r
his ground, which is situated to the
orth of the famous Hill 344, for the
ossession of which so many sanguin- Il
ry battles have been fought, is in the W
recess of consolidation by General p
etain's men. e
Daily the operations of the British L
aving for their purpose the invest S
ent of Jerusalem are being pushed
,rward. Southwest and west of the L
ty British cavalry have taken re G
,ectively Bittir station and Ain al
arim, six miles and three and halt V,
lies from the citys gates. Just out.
de the city to the west and to the "
)rth strong contingents of Turks are al
sembled to oppose further adj w
Ince.
To the northeast, on the Mediter- r
mean coast, advanced patrols of the NJ
Irish four miles north of Jaffa have A
EN- forced to give ground before re-
Irkish attack. vi