ITALIAN CAMPAIGN

Grey River Argus, 12 June 1915, Page 5

ITALIAN CAMPAIGN

FOODSTUFFS SEIZED AT MEDUA.

ITALIAN DESTROYERS SHELL

THE TOWN.

ROME, June 11. The authorities at Medua detained vessels with food cargoes destined for the Montenegrin Mnlessori, and looted the vessels.

Italian destroyer^ thereupon shelled the town, and dTsemburkcd v, landing party to hold the leaders as hostages until the foodstuff was dispatched.

OUR ALLY CLOSE TO TRIESTE

GERMAN THREATS TO BOMB

CATHEDRALS,

FIERCE FIGHT FOR A PASS,

(Reed. 8.5 p.m.)

ROME, June 11. The Italians are within seventeen miles of Trieste. .

The "Vossiche Zeitung" announces by wireless telegraph that there is a report that the anti-aircraft guns are placed on the cathedrals at Milan and St. Marks, Venice. this will justify aerial attacks. The Italian authorities say that the statement is false. It is evident that the object is to prepare public opinion for . outrages similar to those at Rheinis and Louvain. A German aeroplane, flying towards Turkey over Bulgaria, took fire, and the airman was incinerated. Illegitimate flights across Bulgaria, for the purpose of reinforcements to the Turkish airfleet, have been proceeding for two months. Several machines have fallen and have been sequestrated. The details of the.-capture of the Preikofel Pass show that the Austrians made a desperate resistance for three days. They repeatedly rallied and flung themselves on the small Italian force holding the Pass. The artillery were unable to intervene and let the struggle go on between men with bayonets and clubbed rifles. At a critical moment three fresh Austrian regiments were thrown en the sadly decimated Italian front. The officers ordered the Alpini to die rather than yield an inch. A charge drove the Alpini down the

Pass,

Reforming, they brought, the Austrian rush to a standstill. >

Steadily feeding their line and entrenching, the Italians made their position secure until the Austrians refused again to face the steel.

Then the Alpini assumed the offensive and converted the repulse into a rout.