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Show ALLIES TO KEEP BR HAMMERING: Reinforcements From Great' Britain and France Will Soon Appear in Italy. PAPERS COMMENTING German Success on the Isonzo Due Partly to Treachery Entente Warned. LONDON, Oct. 30. Satisfaction with the decision of Great Britain and France to help Italy is expressed by most of the morning papers. It Is urged whatever assistance is given must be given without delay. This is, of course, no certain Indication of the exact form this help will take, but the j general asaumption seems to be that ' concrete reinforcements contributed 1 by Great Britain and France will ap-; ap-; pear on the Italian front, j The Morning Post contends that the , best way of helping Italy Is to keep hammering the Germans on the western west-ern front It adds: ! "A German victory over the Italians will not help them if we keep striking hard in Flanders. It is a maxim in war never to allow the strategy to bo diverted to the enemy, and every move of our enemy nowt is to attempt to create "a diversion ' from the western froaL". x , - ' i Italian Defeat Due. to Treachery. " Taking the view that the German success is due partly to treachery and that the Germans are using tho same tools in Italy as those with which the Russian armies were betrayed, the Post declares: "Lot our statesmen awake and counter coun-ter these activities. This may be even of more service than any military aid we can render." The Post, nevertheless, assumes that such military aid as can be given without weakening the pressure on the western front also will be furnished fur-nished and urges the Italians to hold on until succor arrives. Cadorna to Withdraw. The Chronicle infers that General Cadorna has decided to abandon Udine and withdraw to the line of the Tagliamento river. It says: "It is a decision of bold prudence which ought to hav.e its reward. The enemy's advance will be handicapped in a manner which will be felt before long. On the other hand, it is to be feared the German claim that the whole Isonzo front has collapsed is.to a great extent well founded. When a whole front falls to pieces in tho manner witnessed on the Isonzo It is very difficult to reconstitute it in the face of pressing pursuit on a great scale. "There can be no question that tho whole mountain front in Carnia may soon be imperiled. In short the allies are confronted with a very dangerous situation of which Ave may be seeing only the beginnings." In regard to the forthcoming conference con-ference of the allies at Poris, M. Tcr-estohenko Tcr-estohenko said it must be remembered that Russia should forget politics there and bo represented as a nation. Ho characterized some points of the peace terms of the soldiers and workmen's delegates as impossible saying they could not bo defendod as the nation's terms. It was in this connection that ho made his references to Courland, Poland and Lithuania and to . tho impossibility im-possibility of neutralizing canals and straits and disarming completely. GLOOMY VIEW TAKEN. While some commentators today take a somewhat gloomy view of the situation, others bclievo that tho Italians Ital-ians will recover and that the Germans will not gain any permanent advantage. advan-tage. The Dally Express says: "Germany has made a gambler's movo and won the first coup. That's all. We may wait and see what will happen without misgiving." The Daily Telegraph, while fearing tho German claim to havo shaken the whole Italian front Is justlfiod, is persuaded per-suaded that the perilous situation will inspire the defenders to a harder determination. de-termination. It 'adds: "Because tho oneiuy has succeeded in affecting a surprise there is no reason to suppose that he will be as successful in the plains or before strong positions liko the Tagliamonto. General Cadorna will know how to countor the prcsont violent vio-lent attacks and snatch victory out of tho jaws of danger. There is no reason reas-on for despair." |