Italy

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 28 August 1916, Page 5

Italy

WAR (ON GERMANY 1 . |L - i-Jmuv. ’ ... i /i .-.m-m. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ !,!.!■ - . DECLARATION EFFECIVE FROM TO-DAY. # Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (.Received 10.20 a.xn.) New York, August*27. A Berlin nvfireless message states that Italy has declax-ed war on Germany from Monday. AUSTRIAN ARTILLERY ACTIVITY Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 10.10 a.m.) i London, August 27. An Italian communique says: There is considerable 1 Austrian ; activity on the Trentino front. We extended mlr occupation of country; from CamaVatlone. The enemy continues shelling Gorizia and the, Carso.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Romo, August 27. The Vatican has allowed Austria two months in which to withdraw from the archives all diplomatic documents , concerning Austrian relations with the Holy See. Acommunique reports : Wo repulsed an attack on Mount Seluggio. The Messaggero reports that the Austrians have sent 100,000 Russian prisoners to the forest at Ternova, Viepag*h, Liarach, and Kogcnfurt to construct a new system of trenches against the Italian advance. T’ e Idea Nazionale states that small Turkish detachments are helping the Austrians at the Carso, east of Gorizia. The Maltino states that Archduke Charles Francis, the Austrian heir, commands on Field Marshal von Hindenburg’s right, but the position is purely nominal. The Archduke is of feeble intellect, and was never trained for a military career. iHie merely represents the Austrian throne in the German army, and was chosen by von Hindenburg himself, the astute FieldMarshal knowihg the Archduke would not attempt to act on his own initiative.