STRONG POSITIONS STORMED
ITALIANS AT PRAGASINA By Telegraph—Press Association—Cojjyriffht (Rec. October 19, 0.55 a.m.) Rome, October 18. The Italians stormed the fortified positions at Pragasina, an _ important advanced point of tho fortified Riva group, in a difficult mountainous region west of Garda. A communique states that tho aotion at Pragasina began on Tuesday night. Despite a heavy fire from the powerful battories at Riva, the Italians readied the entanglements, and in tho fog cut openings in the wire. They resumed the attack in the morning under rilio and artillery fire, and asphyxiating bombs, and advanced beyond Pragasina to tho heights dominating the Ledro Va'ley, where they solidly established themselves,
A LOAN FROM AMERICA
New York, October 17. The . Italian Government has ] arranged to place an issue of 25 million dollars in one-year note--, to the United States, to be used _ to pay for war materials and supplies.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2596, 19 October 1915, Page 5
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147STRONG POSITIONS STORMED Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2596, 19 October 1915, Page 5
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