BALKANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1918, Page 6

BALKANS.

DEFEAT OF AUSTRIANS. A TlHtlili DAYS' BATTLE. AUSTRIANS RETREATING. London, .July 12. A French eastern communique reports:—South of Devoli we continued cur success and seized the whole Kosnitza ridge and occupied all the villages in the Temorica Valley and' about Dobney. On the left the Italians captured the Cafaglemaka heights. The Austrians suffered heavy losses and are retreating, pillaging, and burning their depots. Enemy artillery is active on the Macedonian front, especially on the west bank of the Vardar and north of Mon-astic—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn and ReuterZurich, July 12. The Austrians admit great losses in Albania, including Berat.—AusN.Z. Cable Assn. Rome, July 12. Thci Austrian's' defeat in.Albania h {serious. The Italians £tdjvancedi SflJ three days thirty to forty kilometres and the Whole of the southern bank of t!ie Semeni was occupied and Berat enveloped. After a three days' battle the Italians captured Fieri. They found an aerodromo and several aeroplanes infact. Later an enemy aeroplane, unaware of what had happened, landed. The aeroplane contained an Austrian aviator and four ladies—Aus.N-Z. Cable Assn. BRUTALITY TO SERVIANS. UNDER AUSTRIAN STRAFE REGIME ■ Received July 13, 5.5 p.m. London,. July 12. • Reuter learns that the Austrians are intensifying their strafe regime against the Servians at the front, in the factories, and at the internment camps. Beating and killing with rifle butts and sticks is practised on both, sexes, and countless numbers have perished in consequence of the ill*treatment.—Reuter. ITALIANS CAPTURE BERAT. Received July 13, 6.5 p.m. Vancouver, July 12. The Italians' have captured Berat.— (Press ,,