AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3002, 13 February 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT

! . ■ FRUITLESS ATTACKS BY THE ENEMY London, February 31. An Italian official message states: "On Friday night tho enemy strongly attacked eastward of Gorizia, but p. as nearly everywhere repulsed."—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. (Reo. February 12, 9.45 p.m.) A ■wireless Italian semi-official message states:—"The Austrians recently repeatedly attacked in an endeavour to eject tho Italians from their advanced positions east of Gorizia. An intense bombardment was followed by infantry advances. Dosperate fighting followed. Some positions were captured, but our counter-attacks recovered all the lost ground excepting for a few advanced trench elements. Hundreds of Austrian dead wero left on the field."—• Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.-Reutcr. AUSTRIAN REPORT. (Rec. February 12, 6.45 p.m.) London, February 11. A wireless Austrian o'@ial message' reports:—The enemy's • counter-attacks on tho Gorizia front broko down. Wo took prisoner a further 370 Italians. Italian aviators bombed Trieste.—Ans.N.Z. Cablo Assn.-Reuter. . GORIZIA LINES COVERED WITH ENTANGLEMENTS (Rec. February 12, 7.30 p.ni!) Tho "Daily Chronicle's"^ correspondent states that tho Gorizia front-lino trench system on both sidos has been elaborately developed during the recent quiet months, sometimes within half a dozen yards of each other. In places the parapets are. separated only by an impassable cocoon of entanglements, while the hills everywhere are covered with a bewildering complication of galleries, tunnels, and terraces. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.