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Show IWiiiEs on THE ITALIAN FROHT BRITISH AMD FRENCH TO AID ! ITALIAN TROOPS IN REPULS-i REPULS-i ING THE HUNS. The Allied Reinforcements Bring With Them Large Numbers of Guns and Huge Supply Trains and Are Eager for Fray. j Washington. Apparently the peril I of the Italian troops guarding the I'iave line and the hill country in northern Italy against the Teutonic allies al-lies is at tin end. Large numbers of 1 I'.rilisli and French reinforcements infantry aud artillery at last have arrived ar-rived upon the scene, after days of anxious waiting, in which the Italians have borne the brunt of terrific lighting light-ing on both fronts solely on their own shoulders and kept back the enemy from a further invasion of the Venetian Vene-tian plain. Although faced everywhere by superior su-perior numbers of men and guns, the Italians have valiantly defended every foot of ground in the hills and along the I'iave and in the former region in recent days actually have taken the offensive against the invaders and pushed them back from strategic points of vantage they had almost gained under terrific sacrifices of lives. Had Long March. For eight days the allied reinforcements reinforce-ments marched to the rescue, bringing bring-ing along with them large numbers of guns and huge supply trains. All the troops are declared to be in fine fettle and eager to test their strength against the enemy. Just where the British and French forces will be thrown into the fray has not been made known, but doubtless doubt-less large numbers of them will be used to strengthen the Italian from on the north, from Lake Garda eastward east-ward to the Piava, where the Austro-Germans Austro-Germans have been making their strongest efforts to pierce the Italian line. At last accounts General Byng's British troops before Cambrai were holding in their entirety the Bourlon positions west of Cambrai. Since their repulse of Sunday the Germans had failed to renew their counterattacks. Only " minor operations have taken place on any sector of the front where Byng's men last week carried out their swift a;id spectacular operation which resulted iu the smashing of the famous Hinderburg line. Germans Repulsed at Verdun. Along the Chemin-des-Dames and in the Verdun region violent artillery duels are in progress between the French and the Germans. In the latter sector the Germans several times essayed es-sayed attacks with the- purpose of recapturing re-capturing ground taken from them on Sunday, but were met with repulses. This ground, which is situated to the north of the famous Hill 344, for the possession of which so many sanguinary sanguin-ary battles have been fought, is in the process of consolidation by General Petain's men. Daily the operations of the British having for their purpose the invest ment of Jerusalem are being pushed forward. Southwest and west of the city British cavalry have taken respectively re-spectively Bittir station and Ain-Karim, Ain-Karim, six miles and three and a half miles from the city's gates. Just outside out-side the city to the west and to the north strong contingents of Turks are assembled to oppose a further advance. ad-vance. To the northeast, on the Mediterranean Mediter-ranean coast, advanced patrols of the British four miles north of Jaffa have been forced to give ground before a Turkish attack. |