BRILLIANT ITALIAN OFFENSIVE.
UNPRECEDENTED PREPARA=
TIONS.
GHASTLY AUSTRIAN LOSSES.
Received 5-15 p.m., Oct. 13
LONDON, Oct. 12
The "Daily Telegraph's" Rome correspondent says no Italian attack has taken such lengthy preparation as the latest. Almost the entire front from Garda to the sea was shell swept. The Austrians expected an offensive at Carso, not in tho' Trentino. The results in Trentino surpassed expectations, causing colossal losses. Three enemy battalions were wiped out on the eastern sector, and others on the southern. The strategic result is the breaking of the whole front north of Passa-bio-Arsiero, over a thirty mile* front. The battle at Carso continues with extraordinary violence. 'I'wo Italian armies are engaged, and two hundred thousand Austrians. The enemy's defences are broken over a
ten miles front from Vertoiba to Novastas, and he is retreating to new lines which are how subjected to uncasing attacks. The Austrian losses in killed greatly exceed the prisoners and woundeds Entire units \v*_re entombed in to.' debris of the trenches.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16751, 14 October 1916, Page 5
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