ITALIAN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 December 1917, Page 5

ITALIAN FRONT.

"TO THE DEATH." SELF-SACRIFICE OF ITALIANS. HEROES ALL. Received 10.30. . j LONDON, Dec 12. Mr Ward Price telegraphs 'that in fighting like that on the Aslago Plateau last week men vanish, not singly or in companies, but in battalions. The new heroic standard to the point of extinction was never upheld with completer self-sacrifice than by the Alpini and Bersagleri, who held Monte Fior to enable their comrades to take up a line of resistance in the rear. These battalions were engulfed in the advancing flood of the Austrians, but fully cognisant of their state, they stood their ground though isolated. When the last cartridge and bomb was spent they shook* -&ands, and awaited the enemy with the bayonet, each with his back against the rock. Prisoners relating the story of the grim scene, declare it was a shambles > ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED. LONDON, December 11. Italijan official. —Ttherei 'is artillery activity on the whole front. It is intense 'between fthe |Brenta and tsic! Piave. We sanguinarily repulsed a powerful attempt to retake positions in the Caposilc region. Austrian official: We, captured the llridgehead at Bressanin, at the mouth of the Piave, taking 234 prisoners.