The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-11-09
BIG GUNS TO THE FRONT.

British general staff for Italy Lays
final emphasis on the seriousness o
the situation in that important thea
ter of war. The great disaster t.
Cadorna's armies has brought HON,
the possibilities of the campaign OF
that neutrality-suspicious. of re
verse and disaster that are now
standing out in exact reverse ratio to
the possibilities of great and perhaps
decisive victory that General Cadorna
himself tried to impress on France
and England before the harm was
| done, say the Macon Telegraph
The Austrians are still pressing the
Italians hard but not so seriously as
before, for real battle is being given
them as they come on. That their
| advance must soon stop of it's own
| inability to go further in the face of
| any sort of pretentious resistance is
| to be taken for granted, and we learn
that the Italians are planning a big
naval attack on Austrian ports and
Sc line. So that the situation seems
to have developed to where prompt
action may not only temporarily
check the menacing advance but
work speedily to a rehabilitation of
the entire Italian campaign and re-
trieve eventually the valuable and
hardly won ground that has been SO
sapidly given 10.
We know that next spring will see
IN advance on the Western front OF
proportions to win the war if the
preparations and the execution are
so developed as to do on that big
scale what was so successful in the
more local advances of the summer
campaigns now surely drawing to an
| end If we can so help the Italians
during the next six months, supply
| themwit h guns and ammunition and
the raw material for which they are
suffering so acutely there is no rea-
son why they should not swing into
action in coordination with the ad-
vances on the Western front and
move forward on a laundering scale
Just as they moved few weeks ago
under Cadorna. If this can be done,
ard there is no reason why it can
not be done as one surveys the en-
tire situation, a general stumbling
ola II that Teutonic wall of blood and
iron should be well under way by the
middle of the summer and the COM
plete breakup come with the autumn
campaign.
In this phase that undoubtedly is
attracting the British High Com
mands to Italy with such expedition,
that has brought with such prompt
ness the cooperation now under way,
the men and the guns that are al
ready on their way to the Italian front
of fighting. The moral effect of the
arrival in Italy of the British prime
minister, the first figure of the En-
tente today, and his great military
staff cannot be underestimatedI 1t
is an earnest at once of real concern
Britain. the rock and support behid
them all. feels in Italy and 1taly's ex-
lremity. It's stiffening effect on all
the kingdom should be immediate and
extensive.
The Entente has reached the stage
now where all its plans are coming 10
full and fairly quick fruition, where
all the sacrifices and the costly stead
fastness is about to show redemption
in rich measure, even to where what
Russia does is not of so much import
as even the pessimistic had deemed
if would be-the point Whefe ho
weakness may be shown without
cousing setback, where no error may
lie without immediate correction
| Thev are too near the goal to faltel
or to overlook any sector in the grea'
ring around the Prussian, ana II Is
probable that the mistake in neglect
ing italy will be the last to be maoe
not ween now and the end of the war.