BIG EVENTS ON ITALIAN FRONT
GRAND GENERAL ASSAULT
By Telegraph-Press Assodation-OopyriiMj (Rec. July 22, 1.5 a.m.) Rome, July 21. A general assault on tho_seventy-nvs miles of front from Tarvis to tho Adriatic is nearing the culminating phase. Greater progress lias already, been made than • the (communiques specify, and the Italians have cleared the way for a decisive advance at a number of points, but isolated advances'' have been withheld lest they result in insecure salients, _ necessitating a heavy sacrifice of life if retained or lOSt. • • ...
A pronounced advance lias "b'een mado east of Sigrado, on tlie' " Oarso Plateau, where there were bloody onslaughts throughout' Monday, which resulted in the Italians carrying-row after row of . terraced trenches, studded with bomb-proof shelters.' The Italians bayoneted the defenders by hundreds.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2520, 22 July 1915, Page 5
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127BIG EVENTS ON ITALIAN FRONT Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2520, 22 July 1915, Page 5
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