HEAVY AUSTRIAN LOSSES.'
ENEJIV'S CALCULATIONS DPSET.
. -NEW YORK,, May 31 .- A message from Milan states that a Swiss officer who has returned, from tho Trontino says the Axistrian losses during the first 12 days oi' the offensive averaged 5000 a clay. Other reports from Berne state that 69.000 Austrians *woro fighting on tho loft wing;. After seven.daj's more .than half of this number had "booh destroyed. Although the enemy was propared at all points lor a sensational,march to victory, ho found that the evacuated territory had been denuded even of cTcenstuffs. Calculating that the Italians would retreat precipitately, the onomy expected to find ample stores in the raptured territory, but tho field telephones wore .busy, with the result that the invading army was without rood for 24 hours.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8464, 1 June 1916, Page 5
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