AN AUSTRIAN TRAP.

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

AN AUSTRIAN TRAP.

Lenders, June 8

The newspaper "Correspondenta" states that before abandoning advance positions on the frontier, the Austrians arrested thousands cf Italian sympathisers, mid told the. inhabitants that they were sending to Askari troops to violate the women and pillage and destroy everything. The people promptly loft*

The Austrians ~ then barricaded the passes with chains interwoven with Mire entanglements, burned and destroyed the bridges, and retired to strongly protected mountain positions. The Austrians" purposely left the rich valley of the Isonzo open, and the towns unprotected, to lure the Italians into a trap, believing the ardour of. the Italian, troops would cause them to occupy the valley and enable the Austrians to decimate them from the surrounding hills. The Italians, however, did not enter the valley, but, instead, are assailing the hills. '