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General Cadorna has continued his retreat in good order. He

was unable to hold the line of the Tagliamento, partly because the river was low, partly too because the enemy pressure from the northern hills on his left flank was too great. He fell back slowly to the Livenza River, twenty miles to the westward- This movement entailed the evacuation of all the Venetian hill-country to the north of Belluno, shortening the Italian line of defence by a hundred miles without opening any new routes of serious military importance to the enemy. The enemy has not yet renewed the attempt to threaten the left rear of the Italian armies from the Trentino, and there has been little fighting on the front, except rearguanl skirmishes.

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