ITALY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 5

ITALY.

STRICT. CENSORS__&^ESTAB- -" - XKHEBv ':i\V : <■ \ , "ITALIAN OUTPOSTS Sfia_Ll_E_)/ FIRST BIG ENGAGEMENT EX.PECTED ON THE iDIGE. AUSTRIAN TORPEDO BOATS BOMBARD COAST TOWN§. RUSH OF ITALIAN VOLUNTEERS. ENEMY AMBASSADORS LEAVE ROME.

ROME, May 25

A strict censorship has been established, which prohibits the publication of casualty lists or forecasts of the naval and military operations-.

General Caderna, chief of the general staff, has gone to the front. It is believed he commands the armies in the field, with General Perrow as -hief of stkff.

The first act of war was when Austrian artillery shelled the Italian outposts at the Adige. The Italians replied.: The first big engagements *vi re expected on the hank of the Adige.

Austrian torpedo boats bombarded several points between Venice and Barletta, and were everywhere repulsed. They bombarded a revolving bridge, at Sinigajglia, killing eight troops. They bombarded Ancona for an hour, damaging the railway station and several buildings in the town, and killing several civilians.

An Italian destroyer destroyed the quay at Portobuso, and 6ank motor boats, killing and taking prisoner fifty Austrians.'

Ten thousand joined the volunteer army in twenty-four hours. Marconi-is returning from America to assist the Governmet with expert advice. Five German spies were arrested in a train at Bologna, disguised as women, but their clumsy gait revealed the secret. LONDON, May 25. Prince yon Bulow and Baron Macchio have left Rome, as have also the Austrian and Bavarian ministers at the Vatican. There were no disturbances.

PARIS, May 25

There were many Franco-Italian manifestations. The shops were decorated with the Allied flags. Great crowds surrounded the Embassy, singing national songs. There were proItalian demonstrations at Belfort, and at all towns along the eastern frotier there were similar demonstrations.