GREAT GENERAL ASSAULT.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13826, 22 July 1915, Page 5

GREAT GENERAL ASSAULT.

NEARING THE CULMINATING

PHASE

July 22, 1.5 a.m.)" Rome, July.2l. The general assault on a front of 275 miles from Tai'vis to the Adriatic is nearing *.he culminating phase. Greater progress lias already been mado than the communiques specify. The Italians have cleared the way for a decisive advance- at a number of points, but isolated advances will be withheld to the iast, as tbey would result in insecure salients necessitating a heavy sacrifice of life if retained. Tlie most, pronounced advance is east of Sagracio, on the Carso Plateau, where bloody onslaughts throughout Monday resulted in the Italians carrying row after row of terraced trenches studded with bombproof shelters. The Italians bayoneted the defenders by hundreds.