ITALY.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1915, Page 5

ITALY.

ON MOUNTAIN HEIGHTS. ITALIANS' WOEK IN THE TYRO!, Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Sept. 14. The Times' correspondent on the Italian front refers to the astonishing feats of the Alpini. They scaled places on Mount Tofans, and Monte Crist&llo roped together and hauled up guns. They now can sweep the valleys. The enemy maintains a precarious foothold in the Val Travenanzes, beyond Tofana. On the ridges they were preparing for winter and brought up material to build huts, which were barely finished when the Italian guns destroyed the greater part of the new encampment. It is apparently a desultory and disjointed species of warfare, but really each movement is carefully linked up to form part of a definite plan. ENEMY REINFORCEMENTS. TROOPS FOR THE BALKANS GO EAST. Received Sept. 15, 10.5 p.m. Zurich, Sept, 15. Large numbers of German forces continue to go towards the Italian frontier. Tea regiments at Vofarlbcrg are specially training in mountain warfare. Austro-Gormany is unable to bring troops from the Eastern front owing to the unexpected strength of the Russi&n offensive, and almost the whole of the Austrian*) intended for Montenegro and Serbia have gone to the East front.

AUSTRIANS ATTACK. USING GASES AND LIQUID FIRE. Received Sept. 15, 10.50 p.m. ' Rome, Sept. 10. 1 A communique pays that the Austrian* attempted a resolute attack, iin the mezzo basin with asphyxiating gases and inflammable liquids at Bailagilez, and bombarded our Carso positions, but our guns silenced them. Received Sept. 1", 10:25 p.m. London, Sept. 15! The Daily Chronicle's Rome correspondent says the Italians in the Piqve di Cadore sector had encircled a, strategic mountain on all but the northern side where the enemy's entrenclj: ments were backed by a wall of precipitous rock, which the Austrians deemed 1 secure from surprise. Several hundred Italian volunteers lowered themselves by 1 ropes, and at dawn discovered the', trenches empty. The former occupants' were at a distance creating a bridge' across a chasm to facilitate the. arrival of supplies. The Italians remained | quiescent in the trenches, and the unsuspecting Austrians on returning met with a withering volley, the' whole column being exterminated. CHURCH DAMAGED. _ •Rome, Sept. 15. An Austrian aeroplane, Hyirjg the Italian flag, bombed Vicienga, dauikging tlio church.