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Show DEEP CONCERN 0VFMAL1ANS Terrific Blow Struck by Aus-tro-Germ'ans Stirs Entire Allied Nations. PRESS COMMENTING V Cadorna Loses Thousands of Men and Guns on the Isonzo Front. LONDON. Oct. 27. The Austro-German bloAv on the Isonzo Is featured by the morning papers Avhich comment j further anxiously. NeAvs dispatches disclose that Field Marshal Von Mack- I onsen is in command of the enemy forces. A British correspondent on the Italian front, in a telegram of Wednesday's Wednes-day's date, says: "This is going to he one of those terrible crises Avhen each side stakes all upon the throw and when thousands of nen are strained to the limit of exhaustion ex-haustion for a decision whose effects Avill reach far beyond the battlefield and modify the AA-hole course of the Avar. Italy is about to meet single-handed single-handed almost the entire Austrian army and to bear alone the burdens she hitherto has shared with the Russians. Rus-sians. It is known that at least teni German divisions arc Avaiting behind the enemy front and that the number of newly arrived Austrian divisions is even greater." Grave Warnings Fromm Italy. Subseouc-nt disnatches confirming the violence of Von Mackensen's onslaught, on-slaught, taken Avith the Italian and I German official statements, cause com- me"htators hero to treat the situation very seriously. The Times sees the f.ncws -from all other theaters eclipsed and" reads grave Avarnings in the dispatches dis-patches from the Italian front, "The immediate military possibilities possibilit-ies of the Austro-German offensive," it says, "are" of a character Avhich the allies must instantly take into account. An extensive invasion of I'ilv at this juncture Avonld affect the whole allied cause. . In that spirit mean ures must be taken should ihe necessity neces-sity arise." The Morning Post says th.e situation evidently is critical and that the British Brit-ish nation must realize that fresh efforts ef-forts and fresh sacrifices are necessary. neces-sary. The Daily Ncavs thinks that all the" gains made in Italy's summer cam-palgn cam-palgn are in Jeopardy . and fears that it it an evil omen that the period of military mili-tary -'tension coincides with the political polit-ical crisis in Italy. Italian Parties Stronger. On the other hand, the Times thinks the menace of invasion has strengthened strength-ened the parties in Italy who criticized the Bosclli government for lack of vi-gor, vi-gor, in conducting the war, and that the Austro-German onslaught will have an effect in Italy contrary to that anticipated an-ticipated by the enemy. Confidence also is expressed here in General Cadorna and in the Italian army, Avhile it is hoped that General Petain's successes on the Aisne and the pressure in Flanders Avill balance matters. "The Germans must still be strong," says tho Post, "if they can deliver a great assault on the Isonzo and at the same time rest secure in Flanders." |