SUOCESS ON GOAZ HEIGHTS.
STRONG POSITIONS TAKEN.
London, March 31. A Rome official message, describing the Italian successes at the Gore heights, says tl at the Aus'iri&ns, in 9. surprise attack ' ou Mirch 28, capered an .stronchmer.y | io. Val Piccolo. '' »'e cor.'iter-attaeb? 1 t4onv the whole fvoni " sdds ffc* >, " ,nd 'rock several nchi;s, ;tu. '-a afterwards abandonee because they re reopen to enfilading fir;. Thirty hours of ft rioUf fighting ensued, which cost the enemy the formidable Freikfel position, which had been solidly strengthened by 10 months of incessant work. " The prisoners state that the Austriatu were terrorised by ouv exterminating artillery fire, and the indomitable fury of our infantry attacks. We have captured much war material and rich booty. The .it-my showed great cruelty. In the reI won trenches we found tho corpses of four [ of our Alpini with their hands tied and their faces giving evidence of brutal blows with rifle-butts.'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16202, 12 April 1916, Page 8
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153SUOCESS ON GOAZ HEIGHTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16202, 12 April 1916, Page 8
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