ITALY
AUSTRIAN ATTACK REPULSED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable' Assn.) LONDON, Sept. 28. Ann Italian communique states:— ; The enemy artillery is active at Mont Cimono. We destroyed strong entrenchments at Asiago and repulsed an attack on our new position at Mount Seif. COMPENSATION FOR, RAIDS. ROME, Sept. 28. The Austrian Imperial family's Italian property, to a value approaching £41,000,000, will be sold to opmpensate sufferers through tlio raids of Austrian aircraft-. . SIEGE OF TRIESTE. (United Service.) NEW YORK, Sept. 28. Ita.iau airmen destroyed the Trieste aqueduct. The city is now dependent on wells and cisterns. FOUR, MILES TO GO. (Router's Telegrams.) ROME, Sept. 28. The'-Italians are now only four miles from Trieste.
AUSTRIAN'S' DESPERATE POSITION., :• ..A semi-official message says:—The eastern part of the Carso plateau gradually ■ widens towards the south, hence the- enemy's persistent attempts to retake San GradO' di Merna and other important hills, because any serious extension of the successive Austrian, defensive lines further to the rear will necessitate the employment of larger bodies of troops which the Austri.ws arc obliged 'to withdraw, to otaher points.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CV, Issue 16081, 30 September 1916, Page 10
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