ITALIAN PROGRESS ON THE ADIGE
SUCCESSFUL OFFENSIVE ON THE •OSONiZO. ITALIAN SUBMARINE TORPEDOED (Official.) IRQME, June 18. We : are progressing on both sides of tjae Adige. 'We dismounted some Austrian- gains in ■Caroia, arid; further damaged the fortress of jVlalborgetto. We took 600 prisoners in 'the Montenero region, including 30 officers, and manyi rifles andi two machine 'guns. We annihilated a Hungarian battalion, which violently attacked our positions north-eastward of Montenero. Our offensive on the Isonzo is progressing." : . Our troops', debouching, towards Plava, conquered after a sanguinary action the surrounding heights, and repulsed repeated: obstinate counterattacks. ■Our* artillery fire partly destroyed the railway station at Goivs. Our naval airship bombed the important railway junction of Ddvaca, doing great damage. The* airship returned ufc Jiarmed. : Are enemy submarine torpedoed our submarine at Medusa-. One officer and> four of the crew were rescued, and taken prisoner. .. . ,
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 19 June 1915, Page 5
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