ITALY.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 July 1918, Page 5

ITALY.

IMPORTANT OPERATIONS. NAVAL AND MILITARY OFFENSIVE. TO DRIVE ENEMY.PROM BETWEEN TWO PIAVES. VIGOROUS FIGHTING. Received July 6, 5.5 p.m. London, July J In the early morning Italian warships attacked the coast between Kevedoli and the banks of the old Piave and Eaorle, in conjunction with an attack by troops ashore. The whole objective was to drive the enemy from the area between the two CPiaves. The first flotilla headed for Pola and detected a force of Austrian destroyers coming from the south-west. The Austrian made off at full speed towards Pola, and a twenty minutes running fight at 2000 yards range ensued, the Austrian tracer shells falling accurately around the pursuers. One Italian funnel was shelled and the engines injured. The largest Austrian vessel was directly hit, and the flames belched from below the bridge, her speed being reduced. The Italian flotilla gave up the chase in order to protect the other flotilla, which was bombarding the coast. This force Bteamed up and down the coast, firing at the Austrian shore batteries and encampments. At six o'clock the auxiliary cruisers, towing rafts, lay in toward the coast, while the destroyers issued clouds of smdke, masking the movements of the whole group of ships. This mock landing produced wild fire ashore. Simultaneously a great attack by the Italian army started from Chiesannova to fhe coast by night, driving the Austrians from most of the ground between the two Piaves, nearly 2000 being taken prisoner, mostly. Bosnians, who resisted vigorously. , The Italians set fire to some email bridges with floats and sent them down the stream aflame, fed with petrol. The Italians, under heavy fire, built eight canal bridges on the battlefield, which was seven miles long and twa 4eep.—United Service, 6b .

ITALIANS MAKE PROGRESS. jsmre positions PBiwrnOTb. SEVERE [LOSSES INFLICTED. JUceiVed July; 7, SJS p.m, London, July 5. Italian official:—On the lower Piave, having repulsed violent counter-attacks and destroyed new centres of the enemy's resistance, we considerably extended our occupation south-east of Chieaaruova and northward of Cavazuccherina, prisoneriag 419 and capturing a battery of six howitzers and many machine-guns. We penetrated enemy positions northeast of Grappa, and lepulsed two coun-ter-attacks on the Aaiago Plateau, in-, flicting severe losses, The British destroyed a post at Caaove.—Aus.-N.Zr

FIERCE STRUGGLES. DYKES SWALLOW UP COMBATANTS. Received July 6, 12.30 a.m. i London, July «■ Mr. Ward Price says that a curious gemi-sulbmerged battle is proceeding as the result of the Italian effort to eject the Auatrians from the Piave estuary, which has resolved itself into a series of fierce, little struggles, often hand-to-hand, on islets, causeways, and dykes. The dead and wounded living alike fall into the dykes and are swallowed pitilessly in the slimy water. The 'ltalians are slowly pushing out the enemy.— Times Service.

HEAVY AUSTRIAN LOSSES.

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