Italy

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 45, 27 May 1916, Page 5

Italy

THE TRENTING OFFENSIVE i I HEAVY FIGHTING REPORTED. ) CONFLICTING STATEMENTS. London, May 26. | Rome and Vienna communiques indicate- that there is heavy fighting in Trontino. ) The Austrians claim to have captured several villages. Italian reports indicate that the Austrian offensive has temporarily been checked. Ten thousand Austrians lie unburied on the hillsides Twenty thousand severely wounded ihave been taken to Innsbruck and I Salsburg.

The Austrians throughout attacked in German fashion. Their serried ranks were hewn down;;.in hundreds at Monte Rovera until the enemy were able to entrench behind masses of their own dead. The Austrian main attack is concentrating on the tableland at Settecomui, making the most of the local superiority in artillery, but the Austrians still scarcely touch the main Italian positions on the Arsiero and Asiago lines. The chief danger is the open plain of Vicenza, which is only five miles below Arsiero.

Enormous reinforcements of men and guns arc reaching the Italian front. An Italian offensive from Avlona is threatening. AN TALIAN VERDUN. HUGE AUSTRIAN ARTILLERY. ENEMY CAMPAIGN OF BRUTALITY. New York, May 26. Messages from Rome state that the Austrians'. qffensive is. increasingly assurriink [ charactei 1 of, the ! German offensive at Verdun. The advance of the Austrians ha? been rendered. more difficult byj; the'destruction, of bridges and roads. Italian officers estimate that between thevAdige arid Breriia Rivers -the Alis-s trians have placed 25 batteries of heavy guns, besides many ba'ttefies of smaller ones. They are also bringing from the Galician and Balkan frontiers fresh troops to the number of 360,000. . , I Austrian prisoners say that prior to the offensive the officers gore orders to the soldiers that once on . ialhn soil they must act Jbruj ally tmrnrcr* the population. \si.ii ■