TRIESTE AND THE BATTLE.
FAMOUS orM NOT OMIEiDIATE OBJECTIVE. Trieste lies within easy range of the Italian heavy artillery m the Carso slopes. :<- FTom^l<)unt,-Hermada;- ,^ie last :great>'n ? eigk|ujf' .tKet^sajJlateau, and tne'^chief Austrian ""fortress on tlie Oarso front, is only about 12^ miles. It has not been reported however, that shells hjfjye . tm^.^M i *to,s an A^he . Italians woul^ Satormv ( 4e%iiti could from ' ' bombarding 1 ' • tKis beautiful city, thie dream of their desire. n Though Trieste is the chief political, and -therefore strategical, objective of the Italia^ #rniifes,%# not the immediate or even proximate tactical objective m the present battle, which' is fiercest m the region north of thte Carso and away from Trieste. * In the. event of ah Italian break through m. the neighborhood of Monte. Nero, the Austrains would not necessarily have \to evacuate Trieste^' nor would the -ciiy be 'm any early -danger of being ciit off, having untareatenedcommunications with the South and West. . ■ [ ..
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14439, 27 October 1917, Page 9
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