ITALIANS STEADILY REGAINING GROUND.
FIRST ACT OF DRAMA : WHAT WILL BE THE NEXT?
(The Times.) Received July 3, 8;5O a.m.)
LONDON, July 2. Mr. G. Ward Price states : The Italians are steadily plucking back isolated fragments of the mountain line remaining m Austrian hands.
The ferocity of the Monte val Bella fight showed that the enemy was aware of the value of the positions they were relinquishing. They threw in* heavy masses of their best regiments m trying to retain them. The men taken prisoner belong to four divisions.
The gaps made m the Italian ranks since the Pirvve counter-attack have now been refilled.
There i.<? a general feeling- that only one act of the new drama has been played, _ nnd the course of the next is uncertain. It depends partially on the enemy's plans m Franco. The continued delay of the offensive there may mean thnt the Germans are coming to Italy.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14647, 3 July 1918, Page 3
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