THE OFFENSIVE ON THE ISONZO

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2853, 18 August 1916, Page 5

THE OFFENSIVE ON THE ISONZO

DESPERATE FIGHTING ROUND GORIZIA AUSTRIAN PRISONERS STILL TROOPING IN Zealand Cable Association. , j, , . , fioma. Aiii'riiofc 16 An Italian official coiiimumquo states- "We captured the enemy's trerches at Monte Pecinka and in tho areas of San Caterina and San Marco, takinc 303 prisoners. Our air squadron dropped two and a half tons of explosives on railway and military establishments near Proanina and Bomber".' The machines returned safely." ° BATTLE STILL RAGING ROUND GORIZIA (Rec. August 17, 11.5 p.m.) ' _ . . Rome, August 17. prisoners are still, arriving in Gorizia. They nro trembling, dazed, and suffering from the terriblo effects of tho battle. Gorizia is still nnder tho trajectory of tho opposing batteries, and there is a terrific hurricane of shells at times. This is nothing to tho actual fighting eastward of tho town, where battalion aftor battalion come sin close touch witli tho enemy; every inch of ground is hotly contested in furious hand-to-hand encounters, while thickly-armoured cars dash within a few feet of tho enemy's lines, and pour in an enfilading machine-gun fire. • 1 WHAT ALPINE FIGHTING MEANS. ' ("The Times.") , , London, August 16. Lord Ivorthcliife writes: "The only day of fighting in the Alps is when after months of tunnelling and drilling, a oliarge of thirty tons of dynamite blows off the top of a mountain. Tlireo Austrian strongholds have thus heeu destroyed. Each Italian gun position requires three months of cutting of galleries and catacombs." AUSTRIAN CABINET DISCUSSES A SEPARATE PEACE WITH ITALY (Rec. August 17, 7.15 p.m.) i Amsterdam, August 16. Reports from Vienna-stato that at two important Cabinet meetings yesterday there was discussed the question of a separate peaco with Italy, in order to devote all efforts against Russia. RUSSIAN OPERATIONS IN ASIA MINOR Australian-New Zealand. Cables Association. . ' (Rec. August 17, 7.15 p.m.) . . ' , ■ Petrograd, August 16. A Russian official communique states: "An offensive on tho part of several detachments of the enemy in tho Kalaposava region', south-east of Lake Urumia, was frustrated." NO CHANGE IN MESOPOTAMIA (Rec. August'l7, 7.15 p.m.) ... , „, ~ . London, August 16. The War Office reports that tho situation on the Tigris and Euphrates lines is quiet and unchanged. The aeroplanes have lieen active against tho enemy.