ITALIAN OFFENSIVE.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1917, Page 3

ITALIAN OFFENSIVE.

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THE AUSTRIANS SHATTERED.

(Received Tbi-s Day at 9.30. a.m.) uww-ivtu ROME. August 26. Mr. Gibbon says the Austrians arc - badly disorganised by the violent fron- ' tal attack and trying to stave -ou a tjaralysihg blow at Hermnda HllL '*■ British guns assisted in reducing ie rl“S“p»"b: z asS 1 i

*5Si was tenaciously contested. The Grenadiers dropping with fatigue, after three days’ battle, bombed their way thrrough stone-heaps, formerly 10 of Selo. The defenders were mostly Hungarians, who suffered tremefdous slaughter. Corpses were lying thickly in the streets poisoning the air.

STILL ADVANCING. \ WELLINGTON, This Day. The High Commissioner reports from 1. Aug. 2t6h at 5.20 P- m -> An Italian official report says after the capture of Monte Santo, wo are now continuing our advance towards eastern border /of Bamiste-i gateau, hotly pursuing the enemy, who is making a violent resistance. further success. ,• AUSTRIAN' LOSSES. (Received This Dav at 10.15. a.m.) (Received AugU9 t *, b . The Italians have captured fresh positions all along the front. The Austrian* have abandoned others/* feanng an envelopment. / ROME, Augnst 26. , Austrian lines for sixty kilometres are crumbling* and the Italians are marching to definite objectives. It is - estimated that fully a hundred thousand Austrians arb already out of action.. RIOT IN TRIESTE. (Received This ROME August 20. The Idea Nazionale says the population of Trieste became frantio over the Carso battle, and at the sound of the bombardment violently rebelled. Soldiers fired on the crowds killing hundred*.