ITALY AT WAR.
BRAVE ITALIANS.
DANGEROUS TASK FULFILLED
(Received July 26, 9.a5 a.m.) ROME, July 25. In an attack on Gorizia, the colonel of an infantry regiment called for volunteers for an almost forlorn hope, in which mino-entrenchers were needed to assault the Austrian trenches. The whole regiment volunteered, and over 100 men from provinces still under. Austrian rule claimed priority. Thr colonel drew 49 by lotj and they blew up the entanglements, flung them selves into the trenches, and captured the position. Only seven were unhurt.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8201, 26 July 1915, Page 5
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