ITALIAN FRONT.
AUSTRIANS ON DEFENSIVE. TO STEM ITMJAN ADVANCE. The High Commissioner reports:— LONDON, June 22. The Italian communique of yesterday says tlie enemy attacked our positions afc Ledro Valley, on the southern slopes of Mount Sperone. Inhere was lively fighting, and the enemy was completely repulsed. Yesterday a,t Lake Garda andAvico there were artillery skirmishes, in the course of {which we took rifles, ammunition and a machine gun. On the Asiago plateau, with the exception of small attacks towards Mount Magnaboschi, and Mandrielle, the enemy was strictly on the, defensive, strongly resisting tho Italian advance.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11732, 23 June 1916, Page 6
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