AUSTRO-ITALIAN OPERATIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 6 July 1915, Page 5

AUSTRO-ITALIAN OPERATIONS.

ITALY'S RAPID PROGRESS. WHAT THE BAYERN WAS CARRYING. (Received This Morning, 12.5 o'clock.) R)OME, July sth. The Austrians at Plava were repulsed with heavy losses, and their offensive checked, inasmuch as the reinforcements from Leirtberg were too late to stop the Italian advance. Two of three forts protecting Tolmino were captured by the Italian advance, and this was marked by a wonderful charge and a great struggle on the part of the officers to prevent the men from going too far. Riva is closely invested, and under fire on two sides. Ihe revictualling of the town is impossible. The Italians are advancing from three points on the line of retreat from Riva. Italy, in reply to Germany's protest, states that the legality of the Bayem's seizure may be settled after the war, and points out that the cargo comprised war material and valued at a. quarter of a million sterling, including half a million heavy calibre revolvers, hundred thousand rifles, 200,000 cases of ammunition/three aeroplane sheds, four, biplanes fitted ivith ''WirelesS- installation, and machine-guns; a thousand bombs for aeroplanes, four ten field guns with carriages. . , Tlie military authorities believe the cargo was intended for use against the British in East Africa.