ITALY.
j FORMIDABLE DEFENCES. OVERCOME BY THE ITALIANS. OFFENSIVE DEVELOPING SUCCESSFULLY. Received Aug. 22, 10.15 p.m. London. Aug. 22. The Daily Chronicle's correspondent on the Italian front, says the Italians on crossing the Isunzo found the A.Htrians in strength. Their organisation of the ground was technically perfect The ground was sown with machine-guns at a dozen points of attack. The problem was one of machine-guns playing like hoses across the front of the advancing Italians, and it remained a problem until late in the afternoon. Big trench ; mortars accounted for a proportion, but the Tett had to he rushed and bombed to silence.
A German-speaking Austrian among the first hutch of prisoners said they were utterly wearied and prostrated With the thirty hours' tornado of shells. The final convulsion of the battle was when the Italians stormed uphill, bombers leading and bayonets following with the greatest dash. They gave Italy's reply to the latest peace proposals. The offensive, is developing on a front of a huruired kilometres. There is every prospect of the capture of Monte Santo ami Hervada Tfill, paving the way to Trieste.
ENEMY'S LINE GIVING WAY. OVER 10,000 PRISONERS. Rectived August 22, 11 p.m. London, Aug. 22. A wireless Italian official message says: The battle on the Julien front is proceeding. Our troops on the cktremo right, despite the undiminished resistance, are advancing successfully, being supported by floating and fixed batteries of monitors. The struggle continues on the Carso plateau and in the coastal zone. The enemy's lino ia beginning to bend and give way at various points. We carried their defences between Corile and Solo. Two hundred and sixty-one of our aeroplanes, flying in the battlefield, bombed moving troops. Up till Monday evening we had taken prisoner 10,103 men -and 243 officers. We destroyed a storming party in the Lagaria, and by a counter-stroke drove back the enemy south-easf ~f Monte Maio. «K :iAN LOSSES. United Service. Received Aug. 23, 12.55 a.m. London, Aiifc. 22. The Daily Mail correspondent on the Italian front states that the Austrian losses are already thirty thousand, WEST
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1917, Page 5
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