ITALY.
BATTLE OF CARSO. A SANGUINARY encounter. Received August 4, 0.40 p.m. Rome, August 4. The climax in the Carso fighting was reached when the Kaiser's Jaeger Regiment was brought up to the trenches for a last effort. The Emperor, a few days before, liad reviewed them at Vienna, renewing their traditional oath, 11 1 swear to be flu inflexible as iron." The Kaiser's Jaeger Regiment,, who are mostly Tyroleae, were convinced they were so irresistible that they shouted: " Surrender!" in Italian. The Bergsngliers shouted back: "We will eat your hearts first!" The nttit moment four thousand Bergsagliers, with bayonets, lea-pel in tho trenches of tie Kaiser's Jaeger Regiment. There was a desperate hand to hand struggle, even teeth being used. The trenchea -were soon piled with dead, jr.vl few of th» entm; wwfed*
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1915, Page 5
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