ITALY AT WAR.
FIGHTING AT CARSO.
CRACK AUSTRIAN REGIMENT DEFEATED. ROME, August 4. The climax of the Carso fighting came when the Kaiser Jaeger Regiment was, brought .up-to" tho trenches for a last .effort. ... ... . \ , . The. Emperprji. of I Austria a few days before had reviewed the regiment at Vienna, and the regiment had renewed its traditional oath:—"l swear to. be as inflexible as iron." ' The Kaiser Jaegar, who are mostly ;Tyrolese,- were so convinced that they were irresistible that they shouted "Surrender I in Italian. The Bergsa-?-! Jiori shouted back, "We wil eat your hearts first." The next moment 4000 Bergsaglieri with their bayonets leapt, at the Kaiser. Jaegar's; trenches, shouting ""Sayoia.••!". A desperate handto hand -struggle followed)/ and eventeeth jrdre -used. The trenches we*© soon piled with; dead! Few escaped: • -
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8209, 5 August 1915, Page 5
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