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RECENT AUSTRIAN ATTACKS. BRILLIANTLY REPULSED. Press Association—Copyright, Austr* ban and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 11.30 a.m.) Rome, February 12. The Messagero states that the Austrian attack began in brilliant moonlight at three o'clock in the morning on a five-kilometre front between San Marco and Santa Caterana. The defenders evacuated the front trenches but in half an hour delivered massed counter-attacks with the bayonet. The majority of ' the Au'str'ians in the trenches were -killed,, furious hand-to-hand fighting lasting till dawn. The Austrians employed picked troops. The Italian losses were comparatively light. '
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 66, 13 February 1917, Page 6
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