ITALY

Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1915, Page 5

ITALY

ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED. HAD WEATHER CAUSES DELAY. Received July 2, 12.30 a.m. Rome, July 1. Official: Bail weather lias interfered with operations on the whole front. Our artillery repulsed a night attack in the Isonzo district. The enemy sustained a similar reverse on the Sagrad.o plateau. AN AUSTRIAN REPORT. CLAIM TO REPULSE AX" ATTACK. Received July 1, H1.1.j p.m. Amsterdam, .July 1. All Austrian official report savs: We occupied Zawichost and repulsed a great Italian attack on the Isonzo front. ROME TO BE SPARED. PROMISE rami AUSTRIA. Received July 2, 12.45 a.m. London, July 1. Rome reports that the Pope lias received a letter from the Emperor Franz Josef, promising that aviators will not bombard Rome. This is in reply to the li'ope's message that Rome must be respected, because it is the world's repository of chnreh treasures and Chnstkui souvenirs. Till-: POPE AND THE WAR London, June 1)0. Cardinal Gasparri, Pupal Secretary of State, interviewed at Rome, condemned the Lilierte interview as misleading and inaccurate. 11c admitted that the I'ope wislicd Italy lo remain neutral, receiving concessions from Austria. Now that war had been declared the Pope was entirely neutral, but was not preventing Catholics from doing their duty according to their conscience and was providing for the spiritual welfare of the soldiers. The I'ope would not receive any more, journalists during the war.