ITALIAN ARTILLERY ATTACK IN WEST TRENTINO

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 195, 16 August 1918, Page 5

ITALIAN ARTILLERY ATTACK IN WEST TRENTINO

POSSIBLE STARTING POINT OF NEW OFFENSIVE. (Received 10.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, August IS. The United Press Association's Washington correspondent states tbat dispatches from Italian general headquarters to the military attache of the Italian Embassy, say that the Italians opened an intense artillery attack on a 25-mile front in the mountain zone near the Swiss border, where there has been practically no fighting since the beginning of the wa_. Military circles express the opinion that this is the starting of an Italian offensive. They point out that Austrian, and Germans recently concentrated their infantry and artillery in tho Trentino region. A successful Italian offensive would endanger the enemy's Trentino positions. It is further reported that Alpine troops captured Mount. Montieqllo and arc advancing up Mount Albiolo.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) LONDON. August 15. An Italian official report states: —In the Tonale region, south of the Swiss border, we carried out thrusts and occupied Mount Monticcllo, Tunta di San Matteo, seven miles north of Tonale Pass, and a spur south-east of Cima Zigolon. Our batteries set fire to supply depots on the cast bank of the Piave.— (A. and N__. and Reuter.)