THE AUSTRO-ITALIAN CONFLICT.
OCCUPATION OF GOBiZIA. EVIDENCES OF AUSTRIAN SLAUGHTER COUNTER ATTACKS REPULSED. London, August 9. Italian Official. —Gorizia was occupied to-day. Yesterday morning, after intense artillery fire, we completed the occupation of the heights to the of the town. Trenches and dugouts were found to be full of enemy corpses. At nightfall we crossed the Isonzo, consolidating on the left bank. We repulsed counter attacks on the summit of Mont San Michel and took further trenches on San Martino. • The Morning Post’s Buda Pesth correspondent says a. recent visitor to Gorizia found,the town half in ruins. Many of the people remaining were determined after the Italians enter to endure the Aus- ■ tinan shells as they did those of the Italians.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11644, 11 August 1916, Page 5
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121THE AUSTRO-ITALIAN CONFLICT. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11644, 11 August 1916, Page 5
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