3 JUNE 1916, Page 1

We arc far from saying that, granted a big enough

gap and endless supplies of men, it might not be possible for the Austrians to pour a huge army into Venetia, and either compel the Italian right to fall back or else attack it in the rear. There is, however, ns evidence that the Austrians are in a position to do anything of tho kind. They have not made the necessary gap and they have not got the men. What they are really doing, in all probability, is what the Germans are doing—trying to upset the Italian plaat by anticipatory tactics.