BRILLIANT ITALIAN SUCCESSES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11643, 9 August 1916, Page 8

BRILLIANT ITALIAN SUCCESSES.

IMPORTANT POSITIONS CAPTURED PRISONERS TROOPING IN. Received August 9, 13.30 p.m. London, August 8. Official.—The Italians have captured Mt. Sabotino, San Michele, the bridgehead at Gorizia and are shelling the town. Eight thousand prisoners were taken on the 6th and 7th, also eleven guns aud a hundred machine guns. A GERMAN REPORT. London, August 8. A German communique says the enemy continues stubborn attacks between Tbiepval and the Somme especially at Pozieres, Bazentin Le Petit and southward ot Maurepas. Bitter hand to hand fighting is generally in our favour. We repulsed enemy attacks on the Somme. Russian efforts to gain ground on the Stokhod were futile. Strong Russian forces attacked the Archduke Uarl southward of the Dneister. We withdrew to previously prepared positions., A TURKISH PEAT. THE DESERT MAROH. UNEXPECTEDLY CLEVER. London, August 8, Brigadier-General Ryrie, interviewed in reference to the Romani fight, said it is a revelation to find the Turks able to bring neavy howitzers over a most difficult desert. They apparently drank water which would be too brackish for us. It was a marvellous performance , to bring 14,000 men, guns and supplies over a desert. It was the oldest road in the world, but covered with drift sand, and the heat appalling. THE BATTLE IN EGYPT. HOW THE TURKS REPORTS IT. A VERY MINOR AFFAIR. Reuter. Received August 9, 1 p.m. Amsterdam, August 8. The first mention of romance in a Turkish communique is characteristically evasive and euphemistically.' It describes the battle as an enconnter between our advance detachments and enemy cavalry. The result is not mentioned, and concludes irrelevantly by saying that the prisoneis taken at the fall of Kut were 12,597.