ITALY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 314, 14 June 1915, Page 5

ITALY

VICTORY BY ITALIANS. AUSTRIAN LOSSES 12,000. Received midnight. , Rome, June 13, v\ o captured Porto Rosega, includinj the shipyards. The retreating Austrian blow up most of the ships, Swiss sources 6tate that the Austri ana have already lost twelve thousanc Received Juno 13, 4.5 p.m. Rome, June 12. A Communique says that prisoner Btate that the 6th Austrian battalio with quickfirers endeavored to take u in the reap at the Montenero rcgior but this was frustrated owing to th .etout resistance and rapid manoeuvrin of the Bersaglieri and Alpini. POISONOUS GAS FACTORY DEMOLISHED. DIRIGIBLE'S GOOD WORK. m, TJ. Eol . ne ' JUIIC n ' liie Italians, on entering Monfalconc discovered that the bombardment 1>; the fleet i!iad demolished a huge, poison oua gas factory. Pipes -had alreadbeen laid towards the trenches. A dirigible on the 9th ibombed th torpedo works and submarine factory ii the Banubuis navy yard, Fiume, am also ibombed a factory near the towi where a German submarine "was bein; pieced together. Austrian torped eri chased the dirigible, and the latter'i crew, finding it coukl not escape, ig nited the dirigible, jumped intu tin sea aiul were taken prisoners, HIGH OG<XIMI6SION-ER'S REPORT. Wellington, June 12. The High Commissioner reports, un der date London, June II: In the Trentino the Italians occupie< ■Postenago and Cornia. There were tw< hundred Austrian dead, four liundre< wounded, and two hundred and twenty prisoners. At Freikofel fighting waf renewed, and an Austrian attack re pulsed with heavy losses. The citade! heights dominating Monfalito were cap tured on Wednesday, and the Italiaw occupied them. GERMAN' PROPERTY CONFISCATED Received June 13, 5 p.m. . Rome, June 12, The liner Baycrn, which left Hamburg on July 24 for the Far East, was interned at Naples in August. Her cargc was landed this week, the authorities confiscating a number of guns, machineguns, and aeroplanes not declared in the bill of lading. Received Juno 13, 4 p.m. London, June 12.

According to some correspondents, the Baycrn left Hamburg twenty-five days before's Austria's declaration of war. ' Received June 13, 2.10« p.m. Rome, June 12. The Baycrn bad guns and aeroplanes, and the guns were hidden. DESTRUCTIVE AUSTRIAN GUN. Received June 13, 4.5 p.m. Vienna, June 12. Recent Austrian successes are largely attributed to a fifteen centimetre mortar throwing a projectile charged with ektasit, which explodes on the ground, scattering-huge quantities of earth, killing all near. No field earthworks are able to withstand it.