THE ITALIAN ADVANCE.
THRILLING MOUNTAIN BATTLE.
AUSTRIAN ATTACK IN A BLIZZARD. GALLANT ALPINI NOTCAUCHT NAPPING. A STIRRING INCIDENT. (Received July 19, 8.30 p.m.) ' ROME, July 19. The Italians have gained a mile, towards Tiernova, and have- reached a point commanding the railway junction by which food passes to Gorizia from the Tiernova plateau. There was a thrilling episode at a height of 10,000 feet :in tho Ton alt)' Pass region. The Austrians thought- they had found two undefended passes which woul cl enable them to break through would enable them to break through hardy plains. Parties of Tyrolese mountaineers, with guns, traversed the' Adaniello Gliaeier, crossing a sea, of ice for seven miles in a raging blizzard. They split up into two columns and stole cautiously along tracks known only to Alpine smugglers, expecting to catch the Italians napping. The Italian Alpini discovered them and, after a sharp light, the Tyrolese were defeated and had to again face the glacier and the blizzard. It is not kmWn whether they regained the lines.
.Italy is preparing for a winter campaign'in the Alps.' and is coll-;-ting skins, including those of rabbits, luxes and wolves.
People are urged to encourage the temporary breeding of animals which multiply easily.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3986, 20 July 1915, Page 5
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