Italy's Part.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1915, Page 5

Italy's Part.

AUSTRIAN VINDICTJVENE3S. FUXKKAL PAKTV FIKKI) AT. Received .Inly 18, .'!.!)<> p.m. Rome, duly 17. It is semi-oflieially "announced that while :i surplieed priest, accompanied by two medical men and stretcher-beav-ers, carrying a. white ilag, was burying thirty Austrians outside the Italian trenches, they were deliberately fired un by the Austrians at a short distance. The priest and two bearers were wounded, and the funeral was abandoned. A'X AUSTRIAN CLAIM. Received July IS, 3.30 p.m. Amsterdam, July 17. An Austrian ollicial message states that they captured twelve officers, 1300 men, and three machine-guns northward of the Dneister, and repulsed several Italian battalion attacks near RufTredd:>, northward of C'ortinadam l'ezzo, inflicting severe losses.

REPULSED.

Received July 18, 3.45 p.m. Rome, July 17. Official: The enemy crossed Venerocolo and Brizia passes and attacked our positions in force near Kifigio Garibaldi, but they were repulsed and we have now solidly occupied the passes. ... THE POPE PLEADS. A RIiAVE SICILIAN. Received July 17, 350 p.m. Rome, July 17. The Pope has written to Emperor Franz Josef, exhorting him to respect the international law\ of humanity, and to spare towns containing priceleis works of religious art. During the capture of Monte Nero a Sicilian soldier named Dimareo. after a fierce struggle on the edge of a precipice, lassoed and captured an Austrian MajorGeneral. King Emanuel decorated Dimareo with a gold medal.