TERRIFIC FIGHTING FAVOURS ITALIANS
lßeceived July 7, 9.15 p.m.) - I * - - HOME. July 7. Terrific fighting is going on at Carso Plateau, developing favourably lot the Italians, who advanced six miles from the margin of the' tjyljl&land towards the Vipacco Valley, where the enemy, in considerable force, occupy three successive parallel positions along rows of high hills on a front ol threv debatable ground, however, extends backwards for twenty miles. ►- * The whole region abounds in wonderful grottos, and insidious tarns, and tXo spongy’ subsoil makes the district a vast land sea, islanded by_i'o<9cs_and m ° U The n itali an advance is assisted admirably by airship and artillery, work, which makes the infantry attacks invariably successful. „ The Italian left, in the presence of King Victor Emmanuel, reached > height at Crisis (?) capturing a battery and taking six hundred'prisoners.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9090, 8 July 1915, Page 5
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