TUESDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 June 1915, Page 2

TUESDAY

Italian Fleet Active — Shelling Dalmatian Coast—Battle raging on Frontier — Trenches Won on GalHpoli—Turks in Difficulties The Italian Fleet has conducted successful operations off the Austrian coast. The cables between the mainland of Dal-

matia and the outlying Austrian islands have been cut, Austrian lighthouses and observation stations have been destroyed, and the railway between the ports of Cattaro and Ragusa has been damaged.

The'first important battle between the Italians and Austrians on land is being waged across tne Austrian frontier, on the banks of the Isonzo River.

An official communique from Paris states ihat on Friday the allies delivered an attack along the entire front on the Galli^gli Peninsula. The British occujpd two lines of Turkish trenches along a front of 400 metes. Many Turks are engaged in strengthening the outer defences of Constantinople.

Desperate efforts by the Germans to regain the considerable ground they have lost during the past few days north of Arras has led to fighting in this region. ,

The British forces operating in Mesopotamia have advanced over two hundred miles up the Tigris Valley. British gunboats travelling up the river reached Amara, the Governor of which surrendered with 30 officers and 700 men.