GREAT LOSS OF AUSTRIAN GUNS.
. , . ROME, June 1. Austrian prisoners declare tnat the Austrian losses itfguns are incalculable. Jorty-were. captired by the Italians, but these were scarcely a tenth of the actual losses.
xie BaXv Chronicle's correspondent at Monfalcone states that^the oft-rum-oured practice of padlocking machinegunners to.their guns has been proved on the slopes of Hermada, where the gunners were chained by the ankle to tiie tnpol, and by the waist to th~. sun barrel. Prisoners assert that the idea is to prevent retreating gunners abanfu nl nA hf 1T guns > but ■** suggested that the Austr-ans ar- employing Roumanians.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17004, 4 June 1917, Page 5
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99GREAT LOSS OF AUSTRIAN GUNS. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17004, 4 June 1917, Page 5
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