ITALY'S VIGOROUS OPERATIONS

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13754, 13 November 1916, Page 3

ITALY'S VIGOROUS OPERATIONS

' bad weather holds up artillery work, v .Vt.v ■; 1 ■ i ; f- it - r , . „ ■ . t!/ .. . , ITALIANS MAKE SUBSTANTIAL ADVANCE, • . . - ' i . (AuitrariAn and New Zealand Cable Association and Renter). November 12,5.5 p.m. . \ ROME, November 11. . All official report, says: Snowfalls and torrential rain are artillery, We straightened our front between Monte.Fiti and Gaitaguavizi, advancing, nine hundred yards, and capturing two six-inch guns and abundant stores of ammunition. LONDON, November 10. • ; ,An Italian communique says: We advanced and straightened oilt our line in the northern sector on the Carso. AUSTRIANS' HEAVY LOSSES ON THE CARSO. SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF MUNITIONS REPORTED. ( (Australian sml New Zealand Cable Association,) Received November 12, 5,5 p.m. ROME, November 11, .JUfessagero estimates the Austrian losses on the Carso at nearly sixty per cent, of the effectives. The battle revealed that the Austrians no longer have a limitless quantity of munitions, Prisoners state that many batteries ceased' fire, owing., to the lack of shells. The. increasing activity on all fronts involves the expenditure of munitions and guns at a far greater rate. than. Germany and Austria are capable of producing. Bulgaria and Turkey are producing practically nothing.