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ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED.; >4 " LINES RE-ESTARLISBED, '.J Admiralty, per Wireless PreUl ,;< Received Feb. IS, 8.5 p.m. r'' London, Feb. 12. '^' Italian, Official.—We reached Ta*vi« \ station, and repulsed an attack in the '. t Yndcl zone, after violent hand-tOrband ,- lighting, tho survivors being captured. ' H'r re-established our lines east of •"' Oorizia. and repulsed the enemy jritb, serious losses. '. DETAILS OF RECENT ATTACK, :'J." Rome, February 12. ,' The Messagero says the Austrian attack began in brilliant moonlight at -,J 3 a.m. on a five-kilometre front be- ' t fcwecn San .Marco and San Tacalerana. _* The defenders evacuated . the front ■ ''; trenches for hall'-an-hour and delivered 'vj massed counter-attacks with the- bayonet* The majority of the Austrians in _' v the trenches wero killed in furiou* ■f t haiul-to-hpjid fighting lasting till dawn. The Austrians employed picked troop*. The Italian losses were comparatively; slight.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1917, Page 5
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