AUSTRALAINS STUBBORNLY RESISTING.

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 155, 3 July 1916, Page 8

AUSTRALAINS STUBBORNLY RESISTING.

OOUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED

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and N\Z.'.Cable Association Rufeived July 3, : l-"> VU-"^) ■ ROME, July 2. An 'Italian- conununiqi'ip says: Between the Adigo and the Brentu. we are ,;ontiniun^ our offensive vigorously. Our hif'intiy began, tin -attack nt Vallav&a :igainst a. strong enemy line, -the; artillery .shelling the ■enemy foirfc- :it Posawchio. ".■''_ . v The Auhtrians are stubbornly resistiiiy; fortiiied positions^ between "Co.smomion niul Mount Spil. Our position on the F<xsinivAstico line Continues to iknprnve,.. completing the ■ conquest of f.( Ifount Majoo. We occupied fnn'ftout-]) side of. Mount: Selu"^io. and 1 attacked find .drove out the Austrian* from .trenches' northwards of Pehesciila.,.: itlio :,- ©nemy 'abandon!»'* arm« and ammunition. c4kirmisheN occured on the .Asia^o platoa;!, upon the north:side oc the 'Ase& Vnlfry. Wo ■bnllionfcly carried luor^ trenches .'md made prisoxiem At Monfaloono wg f©pulsed a counteriattaok' with heavy Josses. . Aeroplanes boinlVed Marostica and various nliices in tbe lower Isonzo region. There were .no casualties .aiid bxit slight damage.