AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE IN THE TRENTING

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2781, 27 May 1916, Page 7

AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE IN THE TRENTING

TEMPORARILY CHECKED ITALIAN MAIN POSITIONS SCARCELY TOUCHED Br Tolegrapli—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. May 2G, 8.45 p.m.) London, May 25. . Rome and Vienna communiques indicate heavy fighting in the Trentino. The Austrians cjaim to liave captured several villages, while the Italian reports indicnte that tho offensive has been temporarily checked. Ten thousand Austrians lie unburied on the hillsides, and twenty thousand severely wounded men have been taken to Innsbruck and Salsburg. The Austrians throughout attacked in German fashion, in serried ranks, and were mown down in hundreds at Monte Rovera, until they were able, to entrench behind masses of their own dead. The Austrian main attack is concentrating 011 tho tableland of Settecomui. and is making tho most of the local superiority of artillery, but the Austrians still scarcely touch the main Italian positions on the Arsiero and Asiago lines. Tho ch,ief danger is tlijt the open plain of Vicenza is only five miles below Arsiero. Enormous reinforceinonta of men and guns aro reaching the Ilaliuu front., _ _ An Italian offensive from Avlpna (in Albania) is threatening.

GERMAN TACTICS CAREFULLY ADOPTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rcc. May 25, 10.10 p.m.) , , New York, May 2C. Messages from Rome state that tno Austrian offensive is increasing, assunfihg tlio character of the German offensive alt Verdun, but the advance of the Austrians was rendered moi;e difficult by the destruction of T,ridges and loads. Italian officers eattlhato that between the Adige and Brenta Ilivers the Austrians placed' 28 batteries of heavy guns, besides many batteries of smaller guns, iilso bringing from the Galician and Balkan frontiers fresh troops to the number of 360,000. Ansiirmn prisoners say'that prior to tfie"offensive oiiicers, gave orders that soldiers onco on Italian soil must act brutally towards the population.