DEADLY HAND-TO-HAND StRUGGLE IN THE TRENTINO.
SURPRISE ATTACK ON POSITIONS ABOVE LEDRO VALLEY ITALIANS RECOVER LOST GROUND AND MAKE PROGRESS, ENEMY TRENCHES WRECKED ON THE CARSO PLATEAU. (Received April 14, 10.6 pm.) Rome, April 13. A communique states: "By a surprise attack the enemy rushed ' our positions above the Ledro Valley, and also took Mount Sperone. "We made a counter-attack, and recovered the positions after" a deadly hand-to-hand struggle, extending. our lines by the occupation of the slopes of Mount Sperone, ' ■"We wrecked the,, enemy's trenches.at St. Michele and San Martino, in the .torso Plateau, with hand bombs. There have been artillery, duels along the whole of the OarsQ fronts _
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16205, 15 April 1916, Page 7
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