OCCUPATION OF MONFALCONE.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 5

OCCUPATION OF MONFALCONE.

AUSTRIAN POSITIONS CAPTURED.

MARKEii ITALIAN PROGRESS

(Received • Juno 11, 1 a.m.) Rome, Juno 10. Official..-Our troops on the Isonzo, with great dash, and tenacity, won important positions. We occupied Monfalcone, and our artillery damaged several of the enemy's batteries. W Te occupied Austrian positions in the Montcnero region, tho enemy leavi ing 100 corpses bosides sixty wounded. Seventy .Bosnian deserters surrendered at Capareito, and wo Look prisoner 400 Austrians elsewhere on tho Isonzo. Our casualties wore not serious. Prisoners state that the Austrian losses were very great. King Victor Emannel visited all tho 'advanced tiouches between Stclvio and the Adriatic, immensely stimulating tho troops' enthusiasm. He accompanied the First Brigade when'it crossed the Isonzo on a pontoon thrown up by the engineers.