FINE WORK BY ENGINEERS

Nelson Evening Mail, 19 September 1916, Page 5

FINE WORK BY ENGINEERS

GREAT ARTILLERY CONCENTRATJiO'N 1 , (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) MILAN, Sept, 17. During the mouths following the fall of Gorz 30,000 Italian engineers toiled day and night, mostly under fire, con--1 structing cement platforms for, 'heavy I guns, and laying light railways and fbroad J paved highways for automobiles atad arI tillery. Thus 1000 gnms were concentrated on I a 15-mile front, audi prepared the way j for the recent advance. I The Italian troops advanced crouching I behind steel shields. The foremost line I consisted of sappers, carrying long tubes of explosive gelatine, with which they completed the demolition of the wire defences. A large number of Austrians who rushed down the slopes towards the Italians were shelled by their own artillery. An Italian semi-ofn.vial statement describes a 'brilliant feat of the Alpini in the Fieiwme Alps. They Scaled aj thickly-wooded height 6000 feet high, and finally a perpendicular wall scarred with deep fissures, which was considered before the war not to 'be negotiable. | The Alpini used! successive iron footholds, and ; scaled- vertical walls northeast of Mount Cauriol. They rushed the trenches with bayonets, being three times repulsed-, "Finally they captured' the whole ■position after stubborn fighting. The Tyrolese defenders were all killed, except 100, who were taiken prisoner. ' IMPORTANT A.DVA.NCE 0:N THE CAiRISO. Telegrams.) LONDON, Sept, 18. An Italian semi-official report states that in the fighting on the 14th and16th the Italians on- the Carso captured important positions between Vippaoco and the sea-, together - with 4000 prisoners. AN AUSTRIAN 1 COMMUNIQUE. 'Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 18. An Austrian communique says:—"The Italians continue attacks day and night, but our front is -Unshaken. The enemy south-east of !Doberdo Lake continually •brought fresh troops and penetrated our. lines, but fighting at close quarters turned in our favour."