AUSTRIANS COMPLETELY SURPRISED.
ITALIANS CAPTURE DOMINATING HEIGHT.
FOUR PEAKS SURRENDER UN* CONDITIONALLY.
(Times.) Received August 9. 10.40 p.m. ' LONDON, August 9.
A correspondent at the Italian headquarters says General Cadorna's Isonzo offensive displays wonderful breadth of conception. The Austrians were completely surprised, the Italians gaining many positions which had previously held out for a year. The struggle commenced with a fearful bombardment from Monte Santo to Monfalcone, new batteries o^/m<yun.taln heights raining shells on Sabotino, which is over 2000 feet high and dominates Gorizia. Infantry emerged through secretly-con-structed tunnels and galleries in the mountain side, and assaulted with incredible rapidity, carrying the first three lines of trenches in twenty minutes and the redoubt on the summit in an hour, the pursuit continuing down the slopes straight to the Isonzo. Four peaks at San\Michel i surrendered unconditionally .under Sabotino's fire. ■
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16718, 10 August 1916, Page 5
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