IN A FORLORN HOPE
I ITALIAN INFANTRY COLONEL'S ', GALLANTRY. ' i ' By Telegraph—Press Association—CppyrisM, Rome,' July 25. 11l tie-attack on Gorizia a colonel of an infantry regiment called foiv volunteers for an almost forlorn hope through mine entrenchments to assault the trenches.. The whole regiment volunteered. Over a hundred men from the provinces still under Austrian rule claimed priority. The colonel drew 49 by lot. They blew up the entanglements, filing themselves on the trenches and captured tho position. Only seven cscaped unhurt. , :
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2524, 27 July 1915, Page 5
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82IN A FORLORN HOPE Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2524, 27 July 1915, Page 5
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