ENEMY'S LOSSES ESTIMATED AT 100,000.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14392, 3 September 1917, Page 3

ENEMY'S LOSSES ESTIMATED AT 100,000.

BMPEKiOR'S APPEAL FOR HELP.

I (Australian ( and N.Z. Cable Association) ROME, September 2. The enemy's losses are officially eati- ! mated as at least 100,000 during the! offensive. Already 14 strongly-fortified mountains have been stormed and captured) and the breach i n the Austrian line is 11 miles in width. ! The rout of the centre of General Borowich's army was so precipitate that the Austrians had no time, to spike their guns or destroy. the ; ioodMuffs. and. muni-, tions hidden in the depths of caverns or burn the 'elegantly furnished officers', quarters. ;

The Italian booty includes a thousand j^oke of oxen, and 17 trench mortars of a new type and of bigger calibre than seen before.

'< ;The Agenta. Libiina lias information from Berlin tliat. the Austrian defeats have greatly alarmed German military circles. ■ ■•■•!>•••'■. .'i'-'V'

The Kaiser has arranged a special inierview with the, Austrian . Emperor, who ?« desperately appealingrfor ; ijelp. ; ; It is reported that Miurshal .'Hindenburg has sent one Army Corps jfo rein;, foi^ce Austria. ■...-.,. ...... .'•' ■

It is reported ' that' there ane serious revolts ■4n' southern Austria and eastern Hungary, 'Bohemia \and - Transylvania:' Thfere has;- beeo, no ■.-iapw&...fvom~ .tho?e ljegionai. for, some days, but it is. known that ti % ain-loads of soldiere were sent to suppress disorders, mostly due to thp poor "hai'vest. 'But -the Bohemian dis-cjrders.ati'e--political. i .i ■ > .^ N * ' ■ h The French newspapei's are discussing tihe possibility; of putting Austria , alto/, gether'outof the fight.