Italy

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 46, 19 September 1918, Page 5

Italy

AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL REPORT.

Press Association—Copyright, Austra* lian and N.Z. Cable Association. Loudon, September 18.

Wireless (Austrian official: Between tlie Brenta and Monte Sol Alola the Italians yesterday morning opened an attack after strong artillery tire. We drove them back in the Brenta valley before Col Caprilo. Bitter fighting developed at Mounts Pertica, Sol Alola and the, Tasson Ridge,'in which the enemy was forced to retreat everywhere.

IN ROUGH COUNTRY.

ITALIANS RUSH THE DEFENCE.

THE CAPTURE OP PRISONERS.

Press Association —Copyright, Austra-j •« lian and N.Z. Cable Association, j (Received 8.55 a.in;) ! London, September 17. |

Mr Ward Price, writing from ftailian headquarters, says: On either side of a precipitous gorge of the, Brenta river where it leaves Austria and enters £he Italian lines, there is a formidable system of wire entanglements filling the whole valley, half being under the water of the rushing stream or on the walls of steep rock cliffs, which are also honeycombed with machine-gun posts. Italian infantry at daybreak rushed the whole defensive, system, making prisoners of 350 after a short fierce tight in a darkj ravine. The Italians also made pris- 1 oners of SOU in a raid at Monte Grappa.