Italy

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 5, 9 December 1915, Page 5

Italy

A SOLDIER'S STORY OF THE

i&ONZO.

BRAVE ITALIAN ALLIES.

United Press Association. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Rome, December 8

An Italian soldier, describing tin* terrible conditions on tiro Isonzo, say*: “The fighting lasted a fortnight, there being incessant bombardment and continued charges. Three charges in one day failed. The battle cry, “Savoial” echoed throughout the desolate valley, and in vain many of our brothers laid down their lives, but we were undaunted. Suddenly at midnight, in a blinding snowstorm,onr battalion were ordered to attack. We climbed precipitous heights, where the snow whipped our faces. We could hardly see a yard before us. There was no sign of the 4 enemy until we were ten yards from our goal; then a single civ iang out. It was our major’s battle-cry, “Savoia!” We caught up the sound and fell on the trenches like a cannonball. The first trench was full oi corpses from a previous,cannonading, but we swept on and carried the second and third line, the enemy’s survivors begging for meicy. AUSTRIANS CLAIM SUCCESS. Vienna, December 8. A communique says that the cruiser Govarra and several destroyers, operating near San Giovanni and Dimedua (in the Adriatic Sea) on the sth, sank five steamers and several sailing vessels discharging war material. They also, sank a French submarine. A French land battery of twenty guns heavily bombarded the Austrian flotilla, but without result.