ITALIAN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 January 1918, Page 5

ITALIAN FRONT.

DASHING FRENCH CHARGE.

LONDON, January 4.

Mr. Julius Price reports from the Italian front that in the shallow valley between the French and Austrian lines in the Monte Tomba sector the Austrians brought up a picked division expecting an onslaught. After several hours' bombardment the French, with lcud hurrahs, scrambled over the parapet and charged (down a snow-clad slope. The Austrians immediately opened a tremendous barrage against the figures silhouetted on the snowy background. The Frenchmen, with downhill impetus, carried on up the slope, and hand-to-hand followed along the whole line. The issue was never in doubt. ITALY'S GtTN POWER. BERNE January 4. • The Vienna "Reich Post" states that the Austro-German artillery at the front is no longer superior to the Italians.' In two months fhey have readjusted the balanee.| bringing up enormous numbers of guns of all calibres. They have thouTands of guns in sector between the Aiago and the alone. OFFICIAL REPORT. Received 8.40. LONDON, Jan 6. Italian Official. —Batteries dispersed an enemy column in the Serino Valley Increased reciprocal artillery activity is shown along the middle Piave. Our airmen dropped 1200 kilogrammes of bombs on Livico station and adjacent magazines.