IN ITALY
THE TRENTINO SUCCESS. BIG MOUNTAIN BATTLE. i WOUNDED DROP~THOUfcJANDJi OH* i ' ' ' FEET. ■-",'• Ree. May 30, 9 p.m.) LOSDON, May 29. Mr. Ward Price writes that .tho Trentino success . Svas gained by tho Italians in a very big mountain battle fought over ten thousand fesi precipitiousj • rugged rocky slopes, ice and snow.,: . . - . ' . The Alpine troops, roped together, clinied for hours until they got sufficiently, near the fortified xock lyres of the. enemy to- throw bombs. Those missing, a footing, or wounded, dropped thousands of feet and were batter-
Ed to pieces. The defenders by cutting the ropes sometimes hurled groups or Italians to destruction. /
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Grey River Argus, 31 May 1918, Page 3
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