ITALIAN COUNTER-ATTACKS.
MANY POSITIONS RECAPTURED. TEN BRITISH NIGHT RAIDS. LULL ON THE VERDUN FRONT.
The Italian counter-offensive in the Trentino has been crowned with success, and a great many positions have been recaptured from the Austrians. One version suggests that the Italians have regained all the ground lost, but the official report makes it more probable that so far only the positions lost on the Italian side of the frontier have been reoccupied. The Italian success was made possible by the dragging of hundreds of new guns into apparently impossible positions. When these were unmasked the Austrian centre was menaced, and fell back. Motor transport played an important part in the Italian concentration.
The British in France, by raiding parties, penetrated the hostile lines in ten places on Saturday night. The Anzacs and Munster Fusiliers were particularly successful. The British losses were very slight, and the enemy's losses con. siderable.
A quiet day is reported from the Verdun front. Although the Germans may soon commence an attack on Sousville Plateau, the last bulwark of outer Verdun, the French are not despondent, realising that the fate of Verdun will soon be merged in the general strategic situation.
The Russians have repulsed enemy attacks near Barano* vitch, north of Pinsk, and on the River Stochod. Cossacks crossed the River Strypa south of Buczacz, and overthrew the enemy's advance guard.
The Russians are near the passes from Bukovina to Tran* sylvania, the most easterly portion of Hungary, and the principal " unredeemed province " of Roumania.
The Turks had a temporary success in Northern Mesopo* lamia, but a Russian counter-attack regained the ground lost.
The Italian auxiliary cruiser Citta di Messina was torpedoed in the Strait of Otranto. The French destroyer Fourche, which was escorting her, also fell a victim to the submarine.
An enemy force has been defeated in the northern portion of German East Africa.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16267, 28 June 1916, Page 7
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