HOW GORIZIA WAS CAPTURED.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2848, 12 August 1916, Page 9

HOW GORIZIA WAS CAPTURED.

ITALIANS* FOLLOWING : UP THE VICTORY. * : LULL ON BRITISH ' FRONT. FRENCH GMN GROUND ON : the mm. ': ■ ■ THE RUSSIAN' ATTACK ON : I STANISLAU. . ■ The advent of bad-weather on Bie Western front has caused a comparative lull in the main offensive operations, although there. liavo been various.local.actions. The French on the Somme have ■ made progress on the Hem Wood sector; The Russians on the Eastern European front have captured a railway station three miles from Stanislau, a railway junction of great strategic, value, rivalling in importance the strongly-defended German lease at Kovel. General Kuropatkin, the .Russian ■ commander on the Riga front, lias been appointed Governor of Turkestan —an announcement from which much may be inferred.. The principal item of interest in .to-day's dispatch is the Italian success at Gonzia. The value and importance of the capture of- this iron-bound citadel is such that it is considered, that its loss- by the Austrians has left them without the king-pin of their whole system of defences in that region. The latest details show that the Italia u blow was carefully prepared, and ' the secret was well kept, as.was .evidenced in tho element of prise which so largely contributed to the Austrian defeat. Signs of ■ awakening. activity in. the r ßalk'an 6 is evidenced by the French bom-' bardment of Doiran. .. ......