ITALY

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1915, Page 7

ITALY

ADVANCE OF ITALIANS. AUSTRIAN' ATTACKS FAIL. Received June 2(1, 12.50 a.m. Turin, June 25. The Italians on Tuesday seized the Crestavorde Mountain at the head of the Xiedergail Valley, -the highest point between the valley and the Oregons Pass. The Austrian!) made four attempts to re-take the Italian positions at Montecroce Pass, and were repulsed by the Alpini, leaving two hundred dead. Fierce Austrian attacks on Montepiano failed. Many Austrian*, fearing tlio bayonet, leaped over crags and were dashed to death. THE POPE INTERVIEW. EREXCH PRESS CRITICISMS. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received June 25. 5.45 p.m. London, June 25. The Paris Temps, in a leader on the Pope's interview, thinks that Catholics will be disappointed, and asks by what subtlety the Pontifical party assimilates the Germans' threatened famine with twelve hundred innocent victims brutally sent to the bottom of the sea by the Kaiser's submarines, and adds: ''lnterest other than a religious one has admittedly dictated the Pope's attitude on Italian intervention." The Debats says tho-e revering the chief of t'le Church are astonished at his neutrality, which apparently did not distinguish between the victims of injustice and those committing it. TROUBLE IN TRIPOLI. ITALY EVACUATES TDK HINTERLAND. Received June 25. 10.15 p.m. Rome, June 25. Owing to a fresh rebellion at Seutissi, fomented by Turkn-Gennan funds for smuggling firearms, Ital,\ has decided to evacuate the hinterland'. The garrisons in Tripoli and Cyrcnaiea met with difficulties of movement, sometimes involving serious Josses. AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE. ATTACKS REPULSED EVERYWHERE. I ___ ■ Rome, June 21 A communique states: The enemy at- | tacking Preskoffe] were repulsed, leav- ■ ing 200 dead. ! The Austrian* have been reinforced and have a=Hiuncd the offensive ahm," the whole front, but have everyuheie been repulsed with heavy losses.