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ITALY.

AUSTRIAN DISAPPOINTMENT/ IfISSBS CONCEALED PROM PEXXHUB,, /"" London, July 9. Mr. Ward Price mites: The Austrians 'were bitterly reluctant to lose the halfdrowned positions in the Piaye delta, for which they made terrible sacrifices last winter. Two Italian officers who werejrecently taken prisoner and escaped, describe an exalted Austrian admiral and large staff assembled at Oaorle, ten miles behind the front, waiting to assume command of the naval base at Venice. The Austrians retreated from the delta only when liable to complete extermina tion. Added to the increasing Italian shelling and machine-gun fire, there was an imminent risk of starvation, owing to the cutting off of supplies. Retirement under heavy fire disorganised the xemnant of the shattered four divisions, who left heaps of corpses everywhere sinking in the delta's greedy mud. .The dead include' many of the crack Viennese infantry corps known as "The Company of Death," who wear as an emblem a skull and. crosabones' and are noted for their daring. t The Austro-German Gowrnmentsiava ordered the censorship rigidly to suppress news of the clean sweep of generals involved in the recent defeat, as it h felt the disclosure of the incompetence of the military leaders would dangerously increase the discontent of the hungry and disappointed Austriaimvr Timees.

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Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1918, Page 5

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ITALY. Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1918, Page 5

ITALY. Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1918, Page 5

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