ITALIAN FRONT.
FIERCE Fi&fITING.
IB THE CAEKIC ALPS
ITALIANS IRRESISTIBLE ADVANCE
(Press Assn.—Reed. 9.45 a.m.)
ROME,,JuIy 21
■Fighting of the fiercest description continues on.the westerp chain of the Carnic Alps. The Italians are in possession of all the territory west of a line from Gorizia to Monfalcone. During the night Italian wire-cutters with grenade, and knives ciawled to the Austrian entrenchments, surprised the guards and the artillery and,completed the cutting of the entanglements. In-the morning the infantry advanced crawling with bags of earth on their backs, which protects them from shells. When they halt, the bags form a parapet from whence they spring at the enemy with their bayonets. The Italians thus carried five 'miles of entrenchments, suffering considerably but inflicting much heavier losses. The Austrians lost 10,000 in the Carnic battle On Sunday.
The Italian bombardment of Gorizia caused great destruction. Two guns on the inner fortifications were blown up.
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Northern Advocate, 22 July 1915, Page 3
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