ITALY'S PART.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1916, Page 5

ITALY'S PART.

GREAT ITALIAN ADVANCE. WITHIN 13 MILES OF TRIESTE I AUSTRIAN'S SEVERELY DEFEATED. Rome, Oct. ,2 The offensive was preceded by live (lays' intense artillery bombardment and sreat aerial activity. As the result of the fighting the Austrians suffered the heaviest reverse since General Cadorna's offensive early in August. The weather recently has made progress most difficult. The Duke of Aosta commanded the attacking army, which is the same as was covered with glory at Gom/a. The assaults resulted in the capture of several elaborately fortified 1 lines, bringing the Italian front within thirteen miles of Trieste. General Cadorna'i push is further proof of the unity of the. Allies. It was intended to assist the Roumanians, who are hard pressed in Transylvania, also to prevent Austria reinforcing the Lember" front, {-—i . THE" GREAT ITALIAN VICTORY. RESULTS EXCEED EXPECT A HONS. ENEMY'S COLOSSAL LOSSES. BATTLE CONTINUES WITH EXTRAORDINARY VIOLENCE, Received Oct. 13, " p.m. London, Oct. 13 The Daily Telegraph's Rome correspondent says that no Italian attack has taken such a lengthy preparation as the latest. Almost the entire front from Garda to the sea was swept by shells. The Austrian® expected the offensive at the Carso, not in the Trcntino. The results in the Trentino surpassed expectations, causing colossal losses. Three enemy battalions were wiped out in the eastern sector and others in the southern. Tha strategic result is the breaking of the whole front north of Passubio and Arsiev along a thirty mile front. The battle in the Carso continues with extraordinary violence. Two Italian armies are engaged with two hundred thousand Austrians. The enemy's defences have been broken on a ten-mile front from Vertoiba to Novastas, and they are retreating to '.lew lines, which are now subjected to unceasing attacks. The Austrians losses in killed greatly exceed the prisoners and wounded. Entire units were entombed by the debris in the trenches. ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED. ' JAINS IMPROVED | I 'JEARLY 31,000 PRISONERS TAKEN. Received Oct. 13, 5.5 p.m. i London, Oct. 12, Italian communique states: The J four times attacked our new position itßasalta, but our Bersaglieri rail " '/icm with the bayonet. We im-p-c ,ur gains on the Julian front. 'I 1 I number of prisoner? captured I i -n the Julian front since August '.J .iUi/l. A FIFTY MILE FRONT. ■ BATTLE NOW RAGING Received Oct. 13, 11 p.m. Rome, Oct. 13. The battle of Carso has extended to :he I'lava. Tolmino, and Monte Sainto.'miino. and now rage:, over a fifty-mile ' front, ITALIAN FIRE. ■HEAVIER THAN KNEMY'C 11.000 AUSTRIANS PUT OUT ..'.eceive:l Oct. 14, ..p a.m Rome, -01. 13. Half a million men were engaged in ' the Carso battle. Whereas the Italian offensive in October, 11)15, was broken by the KrnppSkoda guns, the Italian artillery have now a marked superiority. ' The Italian fire was continued [ throughout the nig'lit, by moonlight, the ! whole plateau being in flames, and fires were, rising from the deep ravines enveloping the hamlets and villages. The; burning woods were turning the trenches \t.o charnel-houses. The Austrians followed a new plan, saving their munitions for the moment of assault, when the barrage of fire was intense. Prior to the attack, Austrian officers deprived the men of their handkerchiefs, but their eagerness to ■ surrender was so great that the Austri--1 ans tocF off their shirts, which tliey waved a.? signals. Many of the prisoners declared that t'lley had been foodlcss for fitty hours. At least 2J,000 Austrian,s were killed, wounded, oi taken prisoner in two days.