Italy

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 56, 6 July 1915, Page 5

Italy

AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE CHECKED.

ITALIANS ADVANCE ON ROVERTO.

United Press Association. Home, July 5,

The Austrians at Plava were repulsed with heavy losses. Their offensive has been checker! inasmuch as reinforcements from Lemberg are too late to stop the Italian advance. Two of the. three forts protecting Tolmino have been captured.

The Italian advance on Carso was

on two sides', and the re-victualling of tin; town is impossible. The Italians

are advancing from three points on Roverto, with is on the line of retreat from lliva.

Italy, in reply to Germany’s protest, states the legality of the -Bayern’s seizure may he settled after the war. Italy points out the vessel’s cargo comprised war material valued ■at £250,000, including half a million (heavy calibre revolvers, 100,000 rifles, 200,000 cases of ammunition, three laeroplane sheds, four biplanes fitted I with wireless installations and mac-hine-guns, a thousand bombs for aeroplanes, and fourteen field-guns with carriages. The military authorities believe the cargo was intended for use against the British in East Africa.