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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2846, 10 August 1916, Page 5

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THE ITALIAN OFFENSIVE | MOUNTAIN TACTICS .1 ■ I Auatralian-Kovr Zealand. Cable Association. ( (Roe. .August 10, 1.15 a.m.) . j " Rome, August 9. j The Italians have been busy for '■'] months honeycombing tlio southern 1 side of Sabotino mountain, cutting im- . mense caverns in the solid rock, each. ' j holding a company of infantry. They 'j recently constructed a secret tunnel, long, and reaching to within < 90 feet of tlio Austrian trenches. Eight' ■ ■ '] hundred of.the Bersaglieri assembled : j in the tunnel, ready to load tho attack 'i with strong supports from the first- ; j lino troops. .• ' j / BRITISH AND BULGARS IN \ CONTACT ■ % "—: " .' " i PATROL FIGHTING (llec. August 10, 1.10 a.m.) 1 ' . . Salonika, August 9. Tho British dispersed Bulgarian pa-» trols afc Doljelij wost of Doiran, in n^ } *md bayonet fighting, on Monday ni^ht—tho first encounter botwoon th'e -• British and tho Bulgarians for many 1 months. " « 4 ' . . t"Tho Times.") • Mr. G. Ward Price writes from the Serbian Headquarters: "Tho Serbs hold : i a sector of most difficult mountain ~ i front, 2000 feet high, and are dispute • i ing the peaks with- ■ the Bulgarians. ■■ ' ' xhev havo driven out tile Bulgars from " • | various positions on the Ivaradjover ' Mountain, snowing their old fighting v qualities! Tho Allied line in the Balkans . '■! now stretches from Lake Presba to tho ' ■ Struma Eiver." . i TURKS BOMBARDED FROM THE SEA . , . ■ : ' -j'.n BY BRITISH WARSHIPS ("The Times.") ' j (R«C. 'August 10, 1.20 a.m.) 1 London, August 9. i The "Times' " Athens correspondent states that British warships bombarded ' ■ the Asia Minor coast, compelling the Turks to evacuate Chesmc, abandon-* - -j ing their trenches and guns. ' THE ARAB WAR ON THE TURK ;■ ' . . . : 1.. .. •] GRAND SHEREEF'S CAMPAIGN (Eec. August 10, 1.10 a.m.) ' ;-vJ Cairo, August 9. , Turkish reinforcements,' en route to ■■ ■ i Medina to cope with the Arab .rebel- i lion, were held, up thirty miles north of Medina owing'to the destruction of , ;! the railway. Jhe Qrand Shereef is in possession of Yambo, • barring the' i Red Sea route.