ITALY

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144778, 7 September 1915, Page 3

ITALY

IMPORTANT PASS SEIZED. HOME, Sept. 6. The Italians, by a combined assault at many points, seized the Sosis Pass, which is of great strategic value, and the only pass to the Carnic Alps, which the Austrians held. The scene of the fighting was at a height of 7000 ft, Every peak was stubbornly defended. Small Austrian groups were strongly entrenched, and their dislodging entailed weeks ofopersistent strife. UNITED STATES THE EXCHANGE PROBLEM. LONDON, Sept. 5. The Anglo-French mission to the United States, in connection with the American exchange, has sailed. It consists of Lord Reading, Mr. Edward H. Halden, Mr. Babington Smith, and Mr. fl. Blackett. The French representatives are MM. Octave Homberg and Ernest Mallet. The American exchange is steadier, and there are small transactions at 4 dollars 69 cents. BREACH OF HOSPITALITY. BY AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR. (Received Sept. 7, 9.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. 6. Herr Duinba, the Austrian Ambassador, admits giving Archibald, a war correspondent, a letter for Count Burian, Austrian Foreign Minister, suggesting measures to hamper the manufacture of munitions in America for the Allies. Britain confiscated the letter. Herr Dumba claims that he has the right to call out Austro-Hun-garians employed in producing the above-mentioned munitions on the ground that they are liable to penal servitude in Austria-Hungary. Many newspapers indignantly demand that Herr Dumba should receive his passports for his abuse of American hospitality;