ITALY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 September 1917, Page 5

ITALY.

CAPTURE OF MOUNT ST, GABRIELLE.

' MOUNTAIN SOAKED WITH BLOOD. SANTA. CATARINA OUT OFF. ITALIAN POSITION'S CONSOLIDATED Received Sept. 10, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 15. The Daily Telegraph's Rome correspondent states that the Italians cap•turod lionte San Oabrielle on the 4th. The summit was abandoned during the night, bi't recaptured, on the sth. The Italian positions are now strongly consolidated. The Au stnans sent five brigades to re-take tht peak, sacrHicing entire detachments. Thousands of Austrian were captured in caverns, and many machine-guns. Fort Santa Caterina is now out off, three enemy battalions being unable to escape. Mr. Julius Price, correspondent at General Cadorna's headquarters, says the titanic contest at San Gabrielle resolved itself into a question of endurance. A wounded survivor from the summit states that the mountain was absolutely soaked with blood, there being' a vast heap of corpses from end to end. Many of them had heen lying there for three weeks. He had never seen anything to compare with the horrors, though he had had experience of the :big battles on the Carso. ITALIAN LINE RECTIFIED. ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS BOMBED. Eeceived .Sept. "Mi, 5.5 p.m. Loudon, Sept. 15. A wireless Italian otlieial report states: Our advance has rectified the lino in the region of 'Log. In the northern zone of '.Baiiisizza wo took prisoners. Our airmen dropped three tons of bombs on the enemy's communications ou tlio Carso. EXTRAORDINARY BRAVERY OF ITALIANS. The Italians are losing heavily, but the Austrian losses are far heavier, owing to the reckless counter-attacks. The bravery of the Italians was extraordino.ry, They were up against the toughest job they have ever tackled, but the final result was beyond doubt.