ITALY'S WAR.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13657, 28 August 1916, Page 3

ITALY'S WAR.

ACTIVITY ON THE ISONZO FRONT. DILATORY officers punished. (Australian nml N.Z, Cable Association.) LONDON, August 25, An Italian communique savs: We have made-fresh progress'on tile slopes of Mount Cintvoil, The, Austria us are shelling Gorizia and the Isonzo ridges, BERNE, August 2n, General Riedel, an Austrian officer, find two of his colonels have been dismissed from the army for being absent on pleasure during the first two days of the attack on Gorizia, NEW SYSTEM OF DEFENCES. : RUSSIAN' PRISONERS ON ITALIAN FRONT, (Australian and N.Z. Calilf Association.). Received August 27, ii.n'p.m." ■ f ROME, August 2(5. The Message reports that the Anstrians have sent 100,000 Russian prisoners to Hie forests of Ternova) Viepagh, Liarach, Kegenfurt, to construct a new system of trenches against Italian advances. Received August 27, iw p.m. < ROME, August 26, The Idea. Nazionale states that small Turkish detachments are Helping the •Austrians on ! |lie Carsn and east of Goriuia." - \ •\. .•