THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN
FORT REDUCED TO A MASS OF RUINS By Telegraph.—Press Association.''-Copyright. (Received July 14, 1 a.m.) ROME, July 13. The Italian eleven-inch howitzers heavily bombarded the last three Austrian forts blocking the advance to Blanch Innichen. Fort Hemsel, at the other extremity of the Alpine frontier, is a mass of ruins, shattered by twelveinch Italian shell, which exploded the magazine. The Alpini blockaded an Austrian armoured train, laden with munitions and reinforcements, in a mountain tunnel near the fort. After two days and nights, the enemy surrendered. Official.—“ Owing to our offensive on the southern watershed of Carnia, the enemy abandoned his advanced positions. The enemy during a storm at night on the eleventh attempted to surprise our positions at Monte Nero, hut was repulsed.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XL, Issue 9095, 14 July 1915, Page 7
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