ITALIANS CAPTURE GORIZIA.
10,000 PRISONERS TAKEN.
LONDON, August 9. The Italians have captured Gonzis and taken 10,000 prisoners.
CAPTURE OF GORIZIA CON= FIRMED.
Received August 10, 6.4 5 p.m
LONDON, August 9
Italian official. —Gorizia was occupied to-day. Yesterday morning, after intense artillery fire, we completed the occupation of the heights to the westward of the town. Trenches and dug-outs were found to be full of enemy corpses.
At nightfall we crossed the Isonzo, consolidating on the left bank.
We repulsed counter-attacks on the summit of Mont San Michel and took further trenches on San'Martino.
The "Morning Post's" Buda Pest correspondent says a recent visitor to Gorizia found the town half in ruins. Many of the people remaining were determined after the Italians enter to endure the Austrian shells as they did those of the Italians.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16718, 11 August 1916, Page 5
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