DESPERATE BATTLE ON LAVERADO HEIGHTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 9 July 1915, Page 5

DESPERATE BATTLE ON LAVERADO HEIGHTS

COMBATANTS ENSHROUDED IN TMPENET-RABEE MIST.

(Bee. July 9, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, J.uly 0

Tlhe "Chronicle's" Turku correspondent that &< d'esiperat© 'battle raged oru •the Laverado Heights ire the Tyrol from the Ist to tlhe sth. It began, ili'a bliz-zaa-dt, aaidi conltinuedi in bitterly ■cold weather. Then the fog becaime so dense <tha>b searchlights were unable to penetrate it, 'and soldiers oil both sides graippledj fwdjfch Pieiir amOng} the n-ocks. Two Austrian batteries -engaged in a, fierce duel 1 . The Austrians eva -.-.ated tftie positions before the fog lifted. Some Austriansi wear sshieldis on. their backs ■and' breasts, and' others carry steel screens with peepholes. ' ; ADVANCE ON CARSIC PLATEAU AUSTRIAN POSITION BOMBED. (Official.) ROME, July 8. We are making progress on the Carsic. Plat-6aii. We took-prisoner from the 4tli to th,A 7jtli J4op: Austrians. ' 'Out dirigible effectively bombarded an. important junction northward of Opcina, near Trieste. Our aeroplanes 'bombed -an aviation camp at Aisovizzia, eastward' of Gorz, causing fires. They also bombed Na-' bresina station, and returned safely d%

spite artillery and machine gtiii fire. Six thousand Itiliatife c&ptui'ed in Cralicia iiav§ been sent tb Italy. . The Afchduke Eugene presided: over A wai 4 council at ihn£bruck. German atid Austrian generals bitterly debated the sitciatioTi, aniT three Austtiaii gerierals bit" the itaiiaii frontier were relieved of their commands. All the San Marino Army «f twelve thousand, gcßjit twd thousand, are fighting alongside the Italians.