ITALIANS HOLD INITIATIVE
INCREASING IMPORTANCE OF MONITORS. AustraJian-Now Zealand Cable Association Received Juno 1 10.10 a.m LONDON, May 31. The Central News Agency’s Rome correspondent states that the battle of the Oonzo has completed its first phase in the failure of the Austrian counter-attacks on Vodice. The Austrians admit that they ached on the impregnability of their own positions. Their plans were based on that •assumption, these have now been upset, and tho initiative has virtually passed into Italian hands.
Prisoners declare that Austria regarded separate peace with Russia as imminent. The participation of British monitors is increasing in importance. In view of their employment in addition to aeroplanes and all other weapons of land warfare the battle of the Carso i s regarded here as one of kho most interesting of modern battles,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10109, 1 June 1917, Page 5
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