EAST OF GORIZIA.
HARD SET-TO EVIDENT,
HOME, February 12. (Received February 13, at 11.35 a.m.) ‘ II Messagero ’ states that the Austrian attack began in brilliant moonlight at 3 a.m. along a live-kilometre front between Sau Marco and Santa Caterina. The Italian defenders evacuated their Font trenches, and within half an hour delivered massed counter-attacks with the bayonet. The majority of those manning tho_ Austrian trenches were killed in furious hand-to-hand fighting which lasted till dawn.
The Austrians employed picked troops, slight 0 * aU osses Mere comparatively
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Evening Star, Issue 16347, 13 February 1917, Page 6
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