ITALY'S RELENTLESS PRESSURE IN CARNICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 230, 27 September 1915, Page 5

ITALY'S RELENTLESS PRESSURE IN CARNICS.

AUSTRIANS GRADUALLY PUSHED BACK THROUGH PASSES WONDEBFUZ. WORK OF THE ALPINI. {Times and Sydney <3ud Serrtces-l I 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 2d. The "Times" correspondent on the Cnrnic Alps front says that the Itiilian troops are now dominating the greut high road through I'ler.zo to Tarvis, by way of l*redic Piuss. I'le/.r.0 has been gripped fast since Italy occupied Muncombon. Tho I'rcdie I'aaa fortifications crumpled under the Italian 'jig guns, ouc« more proving that fortresses are helpless against modern heavy j>nns. The Austrian* ueciuei to have abandoned their fortresses. They have shown great bkill ir\ °' tbejr guns among the mountains, but have bern slowly j,u*iu\l l«< 1; yuJcr roicntlcjui pre*sure. Tho eyes of the Austrian artillery have |.«-un |JucLed out by Uio Alpini, to whom nothing is inaccessible. They climb pe.ij:i< and drop from rorks with bayonet a.id knife, taking Yrenchci without firing a shot. What cannot troops do who treat mountains like wild goats? The Italian en£-.ne*r» .-ire wonderful. They have driven roadt up, roun.l icd tUrough luouuUuui, ,-jg-euggcd along the face of cllffi, tail blaeteU