ITALY’S CAMPAIGN

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17250, 18 August 1916, Page 7

ITALY’S CAMPAIGN

THE ISONZQ FRONT.

MORE TRENCHES TAKEN.

AIR SQUADRON’S WORK

Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. ROME, August 16.

An Italian communique says : We captured enemy trenches at Monte Pecinka and in tho areas San Caterina and San Marco. Our air squadron dropped two and a half tons of explosives on the railway and military establishments near Proar nina and Dornberg. The machines returned safely. Wo took 353 prisoners.

PRISONERS STILL COMING IN.

FIERCE FIGHTING GOES ON.

Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.

(Received August 17, 11.5 p.m.) ROME, August 17.

Prisoners are still arriving at Gorizia, They are trembling and dazed and suffering from tho terrible effects of tho battle. Gorizia is still under the trajectory of the opposing batteries, which send a terrific hurricane of shells at times. This is nothing to the actual fighting scenes to the eastward. Battalion after battalion comes into close touch with the enemy. Every inch of tho ground is hotly contested and there are furious hand to hand encounters. Armoured cars dash up to within a few feet of the enemy lines and pour in an onfilading machine guD fire.

ALPINE FIGHTING.

HEAVY ENGINEERING WORK

" Tha Times ” Service,

LONDON, August 15. Lord Northcliffe says that the only day of fifth ting in the Alps is when*

after months of tunnelling and drilling, thirty tons of dynamite blows off the tvps of a mountain. Three Austrian strongholds have been thus destroyed. Each Italian gun position requires three months’ cutting of galleries and catacombs.