COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULED.
OVER 27,000 PRISONERS TO
DATE.
Received Sept. 2, 11.30 pm LONDON, September i. Italian official.—We repulsed, with heavy losses, repeated violent coun-ter-attacks on the northern slopes of Monte San Gabrielle and eastward of Gorizia.
We carried elements of trenches in Brestovizza Valley. We prisonered yesterday 717, making 720 officers and 26,481 men since the beginning of the battle One of our flights dropped 2y 2 tons of bombs on railway establishments at Grahovo.
Received 12.45 a.m., Sept. 3 ■ . ■ LONDON, Sept. 2. A wireless Austrian official claims that the Austrians repulsed a strong Italian attack northward of Kal, and stemmed all assaults.on Monte San Gabrielle They also captured trenches east of Uonzia.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17077, 3 September 1917, Page 5
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