Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-28

bardment to destroy the wire. the sure
 prelude to all assaults hitherto. and
 plain notice to the enemy to mass his
 reserves at the threatened point.
 tory was regaiped so quickly that
 there was no time for the retiring en- eIny to> devastate it. The one tnins needful is to mass tanks and troops General Byng succeeded in doing, and what man has done. man can do. For a full month now American the west front. Somewhere in Fronce' was tantaiizingiy indefinite yet there with we had to be be satisfied. until the announcement of snow in the 4 Tnerican trenches indicated that this
 particular sector lay in the mountains, and the further statement from Berlin
 that North American prisoners had been brought in by rald1ng party
 along the Rhine Marne canar' definite ly located our troops in the vicinity of
 Luneville and Nancy.
 Since first entering the trenches, the
 United States troops have followed
 support line and rest billets, making
 the shifts unmolestsd and unknown by
 the enemy, and bearing their part
 guarding and raiding in manner to
 win the approval of their own of-
 cers and the hearty praise of the vet eran French soldiery. Some few have
 been killed or wounded. but the losses are considered light. For the prisoners
 in German hands. our Government has
 made arrangements through Switzer-
 land to send food and other comforts,
 thereby ekeing out the all too slender
 supply that Germany can afford to her
 prison camps.
 Switzerland has well been styled
 The Good Samaritan of Europe"
 Poor though she has become by reason
 has continued to act as the only inter mediary between the warning nations.
 Not only has she lost all her tourist
 business. but she is and has been
 her army mobilfzed and on constant
 guard over her frontiers. Her inn
 ports are cut of, her coal supply is so
 low that her trains have largely ceased
 to run. and at last accounts Germany
 was pressing her cruelty hard fnr a
 loan in return for the fuel necessary
 for the coming winter. Should she
 lend the money, she would be guilty
 her sufferings will be friehtfui. Truly the lot of the neutral is hard yet through it aN. the noble little country continues ltef good work for the cap- tives and crippies of the nations that are ruininE her.
 The Italians are still holding; the line of the River Piave. and except for an occasional raid, Venice is as yet safe from the enemy, though more than Austro- German hands. Counting from the east, the Piave Is the fourth river flowing from the Alps to the head waters of the Adriatic, the Italian ly across the Isonao. the Taeiianento and the Ldveuxa. Their present line runs from the sea northNestward for n1ty miles along the right bank Of bears away to the northeast the line Of intrenchHnents bends back toward the west, crosses the stream and roughly parallels the Alps on the northern boundary.
 On the river front the Italians. supported by their own and British naval fnrcss, have more than held their own, the small aet&chEnAnts of the en- erny that have forced their way across annihiiated. But the critical point is the angle where the river line joins 1 the mountain line, and here for two weeks the Austro German ferces have success. No one knows tho horror and desperation of those nounain stTug- 1tes for here fs at stake all that Italy hclda dAar. should the enaxny succeed river would have to fnM hacis in record tima to nvond being trapped between tho Fiave end Adrtatih 4aa, and Venice would 10 t0mf 6h4uid tho Italians hold tlIl the retnferein9 British and French artillery ia in position, the Cor nm chance of sueoess. on this front win have definitely vanished.
 oheusd Show Their Pa<rtetisn1. The American psopie have willingly aoduiesced ip the Food Adminlstya- ticn's request for whcntiera and meat less days, and Gengrnes.. when 1t con- yenea next month. -shbuid patrioticnl- ly resolve on . poekleHa session.-i Providence Journal.