ITALY AT WAR.
UNOFFICIAL REPORTS.
AUSTRIANS ON SECOND LINE " OF .; • DEFENCE.
ENEMY'S TRIBUTES TO ITALIAN TROOPS.
'" . i ROME, August 2. The Au&'trians have taken up a second line of defence east of Gradisca and Monfalcone. The Italians are now able to continue the ascent of the Car&o plateau, supported by artillery placed on Monte Seibasi and Monte St. ■ Michael. The la tests Austrian losses have been enormous. '
MILAN, August 2. The Italians have made further progress, chiefly in the Carso .region. Austrian cotinter-attacks are '! subsiding, and .the enemy is busy - preparing trenches rearward of his abandoned positidns. He appears 'to -be determined on a fresh stand upon,activities eastward of Vallone.
Prisoners pay a tribut-o to . Italian bravery. They declare- the attacks i» the last fortnight were more violent than anything seen at Tarnow or elsewhere on the Russian front.
The Austrians are compelling Russian. prisoners to, dig trenches.----1 ' ZURICH, August 2. Despatches published in Vienna testify to the tenacity and bravery of tho Italian attack on>,tho Isonzo front." Extending from ,Rub,bia to the s«a co.ast, the second battle lasted front July 18 to the 25th.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8207, 3 August 1915, Page 5
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