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PROGRESS AND SUCCESS. GOOD WORK BY"'AEROPLANES. Received July !), 1.5 .a.-m. . Rome, July 8. Ofhcial: We are progressing -on the Cnrsie plateau. Erom the 4th to the 7th we took 1400 prisoners. Our dirigibles eliectively bombarded an important junction northward of Opeina, near J ricste. Our aeroplanes bombed an aviation camp at Ausovzza, eastward of Gorizia, causing fires. They also bombed Nabresina station, and returned safely, despite artillery and machine-gun atta»k».
GERMANS TO DEFEND POLA. Received July 8, 9.20 p.m. Rome, July 8. • Gorman* liar® gent a number of officer* and men and much ammunition, together with nine submarines, to assist in the defence of Pola. (Pola is the Austrian naval ba#e on the Adriatic,) ' ■ AUSTBJAN" WAIt GOUNOIB. Ro*e, July 7. fcix thousand Italian captured in Galicia have been sen* to Italy. The Archduke Eugene presided at a war aotmoil «,* Innabrutt Tkj German and Austrian generals' bitterly debated the situation. Three Austrian general* on 1/.l© Italian frontier ttreliavad of their command.
A (ommuniq.us states'that ono of the commonest Austrian iridic* oni 'tho IsoMo is for partial of men' to advance on positions with raised hands and then suddenly fall on their faces and unmask flense lines of sharpshooters. ( AH tha ermy of the email State <sl 'an iMdtjfio, 21,000 in number, except two #.re fighting alongside the Italians. A squadron of hydroplanes, mannod bjj Frenth naral airmen, under tli-o command ot Lieut. Oonneau, is stationed at> Teniae, to protest the eity, and also for reconnoitring the Austria# fleet movement#.
(Tht Government is hastening the »on►truotion of »umerous hydropl&ae*. The captain and engineer of the German stoamer Lomos, iaterned VenidOj were se»tenccd to ten years' imprisonment for spying and signalling information at night to the Austrian Qe<s.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 July 1915, Page 5
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