ENEMY'S HUGE LOSSES.
100,000 CASUALTIES DURING
THE OFFENSIVE.
11-MILE BREACH IN AUSTRIAN
LINES.
Received September 2, 5.5 p.m
ROME, September 1. The enemy's losses are officially estimated at at least 100,000 during the offensive. Already fourteen strongls'-fortified mountains have been stormed and captured. The breach in the Austrian line is eleven miles in width. The rout of the centre —the l?»oroevich army—was so precipitate- that the Austrians had no time to spike guns, destroy foodstuffs and munitions hidden in the depths of caverns, or to burn ele-gantly-furnished officers' quarters. The Italian booty includes a thousand yoke of oxen, seventeen trench mortars of a new type and bigger calibre than seen before.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17077, 3 September 1917, Page 5
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