STRATEGIC SUCCESS OF ITALIAN OFFENSIVE.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2520, 22 July 1915, Page 5

STRATEGIC SUCCESS OF ITALIAN OFFENSIVE.

ENORMOUS AUSTRIAN LOSSES By Telegraph—Press Aspociation-Copyrijht (Rec. July 21, '9.25 p.m.) Rome, July 21. Official. —"Our offensive was continued on Monday on the whole of the Isonzo front, special progress being made on the Carso Plateau. We took prisoners a further iivo hundred. It is stated that tho advance along the Isonzo continues, amounting to a decisive strategies uccess. Tho Austrian losses have been enormous." FIGHTING OF THE FIERCEST DESCRIPTION. (Rec. July 21, 0.45 p.m.) Rome, July 21. Fighting of tlio fiercest description continues on tho western chain of tho Carson Alps. The Kalians are in possession o£ all the territory west of n lino from Gorizia to Monfalcone. During the night Italian wirc-cuttors, with grenades and knives, crawled to tho Austrian entrenchments, surprised tho guards, while the artillery completed the cutting of the entanglements. In the morning the infantry advancc, crawling with bags of earth on their hacks, as a protection from shells, and when fchey bait the bags form a parapet, whence they spring at tho enemy with their bayonets. The Italians have thus carried live miles of entrenchments suffering considerably, but inflicting much heavier losses on the Anstrians' who have lost ten thousand in the Carnic battle on Sunday. Tho Italian bumbuvflnieiit of QmMv muted tsroai ilfstfuctlim, iwo giuus of the inner fortffic#tw»§ being blowup • •

AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL COMMUNIQUE. Amsterdam, Jul}* ,20. An Austrian report states: —"The Italians vehemently attaciscd in the Gorz (Gorizia) region, along the entire border of the plateau. There was obstinate hand-to-hand lighting all night long. The enemy was repulsed after reaching our advanced trenches. Fighting was renewed this morning.