CAPTURE OF ORTIGARA.
DOMINATING POSITION '•$ STORMED. FURTHER ADVANCE: I PROBABLE. ' ,r$ Australian and C&blo Assooistiozu LONDON, June 2L > (■Received June 22, at 8.15 p m) The Daily Telegraph's Milan dent states £hat the Italians' .brilliant cap-a tore of Ortigara is a seqizel to the capture of tihe Agnella Pass on the 10th mat. » Heavy storms and the worst of interrupted the operations for eight but preparations were completed m thes interval for another dash. The attack! covered an eight miles front, consisting o£ v " lofty peaks... The loss of Ortigara by'thes? Austrians delivers to the Kalians what-5 were once the bulwarks protei ting theli Sugana_ Valley. The Austrian position the Asiago Plateau is now reduced to a" 5 ", narrow strip between Asa and Galmarra," which will probably .be untenable if. that-; Italians advance further at Ortigara. - GOOD WORE BY AIRMEN. Router's Telcgrami LONDON,. June (Received June 22, at 6.30 p.m.) A feature of the Italian success on'.-thfe Asiago Plateau was the employment of:s 145 which threw tons' of® air torpedoes on the enemy's tions. „ * — 1 -'3
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17038, 23 June 1917, Page 9
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