Italy.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 37, 14 June 1915, Page 5

Italy.

AUSTRIA'S REVERSES. ITALIAN PROGRESS REPORT. j T/NiTicn Pkem Association. (Received 9.35 a.m.) Rome, June 13. Official.—As the result of skirmishing in Tyrol and Trentino frontier*, the enemy continues to retreat to Carnia. A force of Alpini captured the Volais Pass and some prisoners. At the middle Isonzo, we succeeded in a sudden attack on the l°ft bank of the river near Plava, and the enemy fiercely counter-attacked and ultimately retired, leaving numerous dead and two hundred prisoners. At the lower Isonzo our heavy artillery destroyed a dyke near Sagrado with which the enemy flooded the i ounlry and impeded our advance. AUSTRiANS IN DISGRACE. GRAVE DERELICTION OF DUTY. (Received 9.10 a.iii.) Ronie June 13. A document signed by General Rohr was found on a captured Austrian officer. It states thkt an enquiry has opened on a grave dereliction of duty by an Austrian detachment in failing lamentably in a sector where it might have easily held the' Italians,' who clambered over rocks in rain and mist and broke the Austrian front, and came upon two companies of reserves ■ alseep.

IN OCCUPATION OF CRADISCA. AUSTRIANS FALL INTO A TRAP. (Received 1.5 p.m.) Rome, June 13. The Italians occupied Gradisea on Tuesday. The announcement was delayed until both sides of the Tsongo were in Italian possession and the permanent occupancy of the town was assured. Seven thousand Austrians participated in a surprise attack on the Italians rear at Montonero. The force divided into three columns and followed a narrow mountain track, the machine guns being strapped to mules. The Alpini detected the movement, and the Austrians fell into a trap, and the Alpini and Bersaglieri sprang from the rocks, trees, trenches, and ditches and attacked furiously, while their machine guns battered the Austrian rear. The Austrians, after a desperate resistance, retired some miles. Their guns fell over tlie precipices.