WEDNESDAY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 September 1915, Page 3

WEDNESDAY

Italian Successes —Strong Position

Stormed—Activity of Air Fleets— Turkisk Appeal for Help

The Italians are assaulting a strong Austrian position on the Plezzo slope, 20 miles north-west .of Gorz, and achieved marked results.

The Italian advance in the Trentino is beset by great difficulties. The Austrians, although inferior in numbers, have the advantage of defending positions of great natural strength.

Allied airmen have revenged some of the civilians murdered by Zeppelins by raiding Treves, a city in Germany, 48 miles northeast of Metz. They dropped shells on the railway station and national bank. Other railway stations were bombarded, and a moving train brought to a standstill.

Reports from Athens say the exhaustion of the Turkish Army is so great that the German Government has been notified that resistance cannot be continued beyond September 25.

There have been violent artillery duels in France. A German attack north of Souchez was repulsed.