Italy

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 44, 19 September 1916, Page 5

Italy

ALPINI'S BRILLIANT WORK. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Milan, September 17. During the-months following the fall of Gorizia, 30,000 Italian engineers toiled day and night, mostly unjder fire, constructing cement platforms •for heavy guns, laying light railways 'and broad paved highways for automobiles and artillery. Thus a thousand guns were concentrated on a 15 mile front. This prepared the way for the recent advance of the Italian troops. They.advanced crouching behind steel shields. The first line consisted of sappers carrying long tubes of explosive gelatine, wherewith they completed the demolition of the wire defences. A large number of Austrians rushed down the slopes towards the Italians, shelled by their own artillery, waving their handkerchiefs, and speedily surrendered on reaching the Italian communication trenches. An Italian semi-official message describes a brilliant feat of the Alpini in the Fiemme Alps, a thickly wooded height, rising to six thousand feet and finally ending in a perpendicular wall, scarred with deep tissures, which was considered before the war to be imnegotiable. The Alpini used successive iron footholds, scaled the vertical walls north-east of Mount Cauriol, and rushed the trenches with bayonets. They were thrice repulsed, but finally captured the whole position. The stubborn Tyrolese defenders were all killed, except 100, who were taken prisoners. FURTHER SUCCESS. Home, September 18. The Italians have occupied Pal id Castro, near Argyro Castro. FIGHTING ON THE CARSO. Press Association—Copyright. Renter's Telegrams London, September 18. An Italian semi-official report states that in the lighting on the 14th and Kith instant the Italians on the CarIso captured important positions between Vippaceo and the sea, and took four thousand prisoners. AN AUSTRIAN VERSION. Amsterdam, September 18. An Austrian communique states: The Italian, continue their attacks day and night, but our front is unshaken. The enemy, south-east of Doherdo Lake, continually brought up fresh troops, which penetrated our lims, but the fighting at close quart's turned in out favor, ,