IN THE MONFALCONE SECTOR.
'TWO DAYS’ SEVERE FIGHTING. STILL PUSHING- FORWARD. 810 NUMBERS OF PRISONERS TAKEN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, Received August 14, 2 p.in. London, August 13. Au Italian communique states: Our troops on the Lower Isonzo carried two positions in the Monfalcone sector. After two days’ severe fighting further northwards we crossed Vallone and pushed forward a kilometre eastward of Oppacchiasella. The infantry carried a strongly defended hill' at the northern edge of the Carso. Enemy aircraft/threw many bombs on Grade Campa’to. We have taken prisoner since the 6th nearly 1(5,000. CONSOLIDATING CONQUERED GROUND, . BOMBING RAILWAY STATIONS Paris, August 13 A communique state: Wo consolidated the conquered ground northward ot the Somme Wo slowly progressed southward of FJeury. Our ,air squadrons dropped 130 bombs on the railway* stations of Metz, Abblons and railway wort* shops and barracks, at-Mclz,
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11646, 14 August 1916, Page 8
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141IN THE MONFALCONE SECTOR. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11646, 14 August 1916, Page 8
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