THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

LJtliSOTjiiO XJSLBGRAi'tl —CUflitlGHX, j [P*B VBSBB ASSOCIATION! THE AUSTRIAN ATTACK OiN ITALY. Loudon, May 25. Itume and Vienna communiques indicate heavy lighting in tiie Treinitino. Tno Austrian claim to have captured several villages. 'Italiian reports indicate thait the offensive has been temporarily checked. Ten thousand Austrians lie unbuned on the hillsides. Twenty thousand .sovoroiy wounded men wero broug'it to InnsbjMck and Odsburg. 'The Austrians throughout have atI backi'tli ill German fashion in serried ranks. They were hown down in hundreds at Monte II over a until able to entrenon behind. magse>s of their own dead. ( The Austrians niainattack is concentrating on the tableland of >Setto Oomlui, making the most of their focal superiority in artillery, but the Austrians are still scarcely in touch with the m.vin Italian positions. The Arsiero and the Asiago limes are the chief danger as they open on to the plain of Viceiizu, only fiv6 miles below Areiem Enormous reinforcements of men ■and guns are reaching the Italian front. An Italian offensive in Avlona -is threatening. y New l'ork* Maj' Messe ges from Rome stato that me Austrian offensive is increasingly t .sniiiii.ig the character of the German offensive at Vordun. The advance o. the Austrians h;is been rendered more difficult by the dostruotiop of bridges and roads. Italian officers estimate that between the Adiige and Br en ta rivers the Austrians placed 26 batteries of heavy guns, besides many batteries of smaller ones. They are also bringing from the Galician and Balkan frontiers fresh troops to the number of 36U000.

AT VERDUN. . Paris, May 25. The Germans made* a series of attacks at 5 o'clock between Haudromont Wood and Thiamont farm. All were repulsed with heavy losses, except one at- the point where the eneiiy carried <1 trench element. Our iirtjilflerv dleistroyed a German depot at Haud'icourt. Viol pint bombardments of Hill 304 and Douaumont continue. Amsterdam, May 25. A German eommumiquo claims that 850 prisoners and 14 guns were captured at Oailetto wood. The capture oi a quarry southward of Haudlromonfc farm is also claimed. Both are in the vicinity of Doumanont. ON THE TIGRIS. Condon, May 'Jo. Sir I'erey Lake reports that -.he Turks on Wednesday are stiil holding positions on the >eft bank of the Tigris in the vicinity of Sannaiyat. Our artillery from the right hank is maintaining an effective hre on the enemy's communadatiotns on the left bank.