HERMADA ISOLATED
A TREMENDOUS STORM OF FIRE.
(Received August 25, 3.30 p.m.)
(AUS. AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN. AND REUTER.)
ROME, 24th August,
Hermada Hill is attacked on all sides, and isolated; but if continues to pour out the fire of 500 cannon and thousands of machine-guns. The Austrians recognise that its fall will probably cause the collapse of the entire front.
An Italian official report states: The battle continues. We carried new positions, and repulsed violent counterattacks. The' prisoners now' total 20,000 men and 500 officers, with 60 gun 3. ■
Our aeroplanes bombed massed troops and the Austrian communications. The enemy persists in fruitless attempts in the Trentino.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 48, 25 August 1917, Page 8
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