AUSTRIA'S HEAVY LOSSES IN CARNIC ALPS.
MASSED ATTACKS SWEPT AWAY BY HEAVY FIRE. LONDON. June 17. Tbe "Daily Chronicle" war correspondent, (Mr. Martin Donohuc), telegraphing from Home, states that the. Austrians attacked the Italian positions in the Scssis Pass, in the Camic Alps, at dawn. They advanced in massed formation. Few lived to reach the Italian trenches. Tbe Austrian artillery was unable to co-operate, as. owing to the unfavourable nature of the ground, the big guns might have decimated their own ranks. The Austrian infantry reserved their fire, trusting to their bayonets, but the Italian fire swept the open ground. The Austrian? fell in heaps. Their first and second attacks withered away, aud the third also failed. Jt is officially stated that combats favourable to the Italians are proceeding along the whole frontier, notably in the Carnic Alps, and along tbe River Isonzo. On Monte Nero the Italians charged and expelled the Austrians from positions northward of the principal summit, taking prisoner 315, including 14 officers.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 144, 18 June 1915, Page 5
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