AUSTRIAN DISASTER.
ON ITALIAN FRONT
THE WELCOME SNOW
rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & retjter.]
LONDON December 20. Rome wireless. —Snow is falling abundantly throughout Italy. Prince Conrad’s offensive in the Asiago Plateau is considered to have failed. Latest attacks have been fatal for the Austrians.
Conrad marched his troops not to the attack but to the slaughter under showers of shells from hundreds of Italian guns. Approximately twenty thousand were sacrificed uselessly on Christmas Eve.
The impression created by the attack was disastrous, even at the Vatican, where such a crime was unexpected from a very Catholic Austria.
ENEMY ATTACK RECOMMENCED
POSITIONS GAINED AND LOST
ENEMY ADVANCE HELD CP
LONDON December 26
Wireless Italian official: The struggle on the Asiago Plateau recommenced at dawn yesterday.
The enemy concentrated between Col Dell Rossoo and Val Frenze Lamaise. He was unable to advance be. Wood Rassoo. We recaptured Col Del Rossoo and Monte Balbella, but were unable to retain them.
Our barrage checked the attack on the left bank of the Brenta River.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1917, Page 3
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170AUSTRIAN DISASTER. Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1917, Page 3
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