VIGOROUS ITALIAN OFFENSIVE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2548, 24 August 1915, Page 5

VIGOROUS ITALIAN OFFENSIVE

INTENSE ARTILLERY FIRE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS ON ALL FRONTS Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Zurioh, August 22. Austrian advices state that the Italians are vigorously attacking the whole of the Carinthian front. • The artillery fire is.becoming moro intense, and bombarding proceeds day and night. LIE CIVEN Tp AUSTRIAN REPORTS. ITALIAN REVIEW OP PROGRESS MADE. . v • London, August 22. A communique from Rome, officially denying the Austrian communique, asserts that substantia! progress has been made on all the fronts. The Italians have captured' nearly the whole of tho formidable hill at 'Monte Nero, and aro investing Tolmino, "which our artillery liavo overcome." Tho Austrian version of qui' Iqssbs »'«n two hundrnd Lhoitsand j ftej; were Mtuallx Mill thousand, v We

[ took prisoner eighteen thousand, and ourselves lost only a few hundred. The report pays tributes to the enemy's courage and tenacity. ITALIAN. COMMUNIQUE. Rome, August 22. A communique, states:. "On the plateau north-east of Aesivometzo wo took' an important Austrian redoubt. \ "Our artillery destroyed the defences barring thesroad from the Dolomites to Delivcnallongo. "Wo have captured the front from . Pluzne to Corzoca, a great length of trenches falling into our hands at Mont-o Nero. , . i "A squadron of aeroplanes hombatd- , ed for thirty minutes an enemy aero- , dromei at Isowitza. . [ "Austrian aeroplanes dropped fourteen bombs on the Udine district, killing a woman and child and three Carabiniers." ' (R-ec. August 23, 8.40 p.m.) _ Rome, August 23. A' communique states: "Despite the ' enemy's heavy' bombardment we have , increased our gains' north-west of' Ar- . sievo, and captured somo trenches at the i head of the Travernanes Valley, i "We made slight progress on the j Cavso neiditSj and captured a strong i trench.: The enemy's violent countcr- • attack was iep(ilsed by successive bayi onet charges, . I "We repeated the air raid on Aieo oaußing aavop;"- J. , JU

' HIGH COMMSSIONER'S REPORT. The High Commissioner reports:— J-ondon, August 22, 6.40 a.m. Rome success in several quarters. The enomy's aviation camp at | Raunizza, east of Gorizia, was raided.