ITALIANS FIGHT TO DEATH ON ASIAN PLATEAU
WAIT WITH THE BAYONET AN OVERWHELMING ATTACK. [(Received 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, December iz. Mr. Ward Price telegraphs that jn fighting like that on the Asiago Plateau last week men vanish not singly or in companies, but in battalions, the new heroic standard of resistance to the point of extinction was never upheld with completer self-sacrifice than by the Alpini and Bersaglieri, who held Monte Fiora to enable their comrades to take up a line of resistance in (he rear. These battalions were engulfed in an advancing flood of Austrians, but fully cognisant of their fate, they stood their ground though isolated, and when the hut cartridge and bomb was spent they shook hand* and awaited the enemy with, the bayonet, each setting hk back against a rock. Prisoners relating the story of the grim scene declare it was » shambles. .(A. and Hi. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 297, 13 December 1917, Page 5
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