Bisbee daily review., 1917-11-21
Excellent Progress Made at
American and British Coun-
cil-French Hold Important
Session; Declare War Must
Continue Unabated
Italians Tenaciously Holding
Huns Back, Capture Many
Prisoners and Number of
Guns-British Circling
Jerusalem
(By Review Leased Wire)

The American mission headed by
Colonel Edward NJ. House, which re-
Gently arrived in England for the pur-
pose of discussing and co-ordinating
efforts to win the war, has had its ini-
tial meeting with the British war
council and its right hand men.
Details of the conference, naturally,
have been KEEP. secret, but announce
ment is made that little formakty at
tended il and that satisfactory plo-
gress marked the discussions The far
reaching scope of the conference is in
dicated by the attendance upon the
meeting of join representatives of the
army, navy, the food controllers, ship
ping boards, the treasurers and the
war trade boards.
Premier Opens Session.
David Loyd-George, the British pre-
mier, opened the session with an ad-
dress and the conference LASTED an
hour and half, during which frequent
recourse was had to a mass of statis-
tics and official documents Colonel
House was not present a. the opening
session
simultaneously across the channel,
II. Clemenceau, the new French pre-
mier, was reading the declaration of
policy of the new ministry to the cham
Der of deputies. 1t was - the erect
that the new government had assumed
of in ord -r-d ha
war with redoubled effort towards its
successful conclusion. 1t declared that
civilized nations were engaged in the
same battle against the development
of ancient barbarity and that France.
with her allies, was a barrier in the
pa h that should not be passed The
premier asked each citizen to take his
full part in the common defense and to
. shoulder the same abnegation that at
present exists in the army. The cham
Der by a vote of 41S to 65 expressed
confidence in the new ministry.
Italians Holding Back.
Between the Brenta and the Piave
rivers on the northern front of the Ital-
ly holding back the enemy and prevent
ing his advance southwark to the We
netial plain, the gaining of which
would threaten heir entire line along
the Piave river southwark to the Adri-
attic sea. Four times attacks against
M5nte Tomba, the chief position still
blocking the way from the hilly coun-
try to the plain, have been repulsed
by the Italians.
East of the Asiago plateau the Ital-
ians are keeping up their offensive
against the invaders and have taken
more than three hundred prisoners and
a number of machine guns and several
hundred rifles. Along the Piave river
the enemy apparently has made no
further effort to cross the stream, after
the serious losses he sustained in be-
ing driven back Monday from the Zen
son bridgehead.
Haie Active.
Shifting his offensive TO the south.
Field Marshal Haig has delivered a
series of attacks against the Ger
mans in the region between st. Quen-
tin and the river ScaTpe in France
territory on which there has been lit
tie lighting since the spring offensive
when notable gains eastward from
Arras to Peronne we're made Details
of the new offensive are not yet at
hand but the British official communi-
cafi0n saws that the strike had salts
factory results and that a number of
prisoners and a considerable quantity
OF materials have been gained on the
roads leading from Bapaume and Per-