YEAR KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1918. | I The British 'and French Reinforce Italy engine rooms, and vital parts of the interior, and also on the roofs of With our monitors assisting the Italians off the Piave. A barbette gun sandbag roofed against omBs, standing out to battle, While swift vessels of the Italian light flotilla keep watch and ward round our monitors while in action off the mouth of the Piave and inthe Gulf of Trieste against U-boats and bomb-dropping aeroplanes as far as possible, against the latter the monitors take spe cial precaution on their own account. Sand-bags are used allover the ship on the upper deck, among other purposes, to protect the magazines, of low-shelving coasts, and bombarding from there. the heavy-gun barbettes, and as wall-like breastworks round exposed quick-firing pun:positions on dec k. Monitors, as most people know, are shallow-draught vessels, designed for standing clese in-shore a # The grave of the first French soldier to die in Italy, in the Musocco ry st Milan, : - : On the road at Desenzano: A supply column of Freneh Motor lorries in Italy. Te : The Jointyreoment of the Italians by Britioh and Froneh, Two of the . 3 French airmen. e transferepce of Bri and French troops from else A French convoy halted on a road in 4 mountain pass on the way to . , + : : el 2 where to reinforce the Italians and assist in rolling back the wave of the Italian front. French troops, having.a shorter distance to #0 were British troops "pouring" into Italy: Artillery on the march. The prompt help sent to Italy in her hour invading Austrians snd Germans, has been accomplished, Setarally $he first lo reach Taly 'aad bo Some 1a the heip:gf the alia pel of tr Wyby her French and British allies has béen immensely eppreciated and is having the happiest effect, © aecounts, with record swiftness and smoothness. i dn vo President Fong Kuo-Chang's first review of tr 0 Master of Chomnio; (8) Gonaral ¥