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YPAL FUNDS AT 91st DeceXian, 1914,
TOTAL £23.970,307.
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£2,581,458
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937,239 478,940
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TRAMWAYS LIMITED.
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THE GREAT BATTLE IN ITALY.
INITIAL ENEMY GAINS BEING REDUCED,
POSITION HIGHLY SATIS- FACTORY.
Losos, June 19.
GALLANT WORK BY YORKSHIRE-
TROOPS.
CAPTURED GUNS TURNED
ENEMY
Lospos, Jume 20: Reuters Correspondent at Italian Helquarters, telegraphing on the 18th, sys:-
There is no change on the British”.
The position on the Italian Fronti alter four-and-a-half days of fighting front. Further particulars of the is generally regunted as highly satis-uttack on our right Division show factory. The initial Austrian gains that the early morning init helped are gradually being reduced by local the enemy and rendered, difficult our counter-attacks. For example, the fire. They advanced in great num Austrias now hold only a third of hers, carrying flammeweerfer. the Montello Eeights.
The main Austrian effort is befront Ene with us and the second After heavy bombardment of the tween Montello and the sea, the line by shrapnel cur machine-gun object boing to push on to the plus ning stopped them dead on the hit Jaud take Trivesa There is so in- Bank, but on the right the enemy dication so far that this air will manager to enter some 150 yards of bo realised for the Italians possess our font trenches. The line pus plenty of unused reserves and are alhintly restored in the afternoon fighting well.
by Yorkshire troops.
THEATRES OF EPIC STRUGGLES
SUPERB FIGHTING BY ITALIANS.
to Montello.
and
One of our othcers commanding ant advanced pest after losing illuis, men- succeeded in killing two machine-gun Seurre and the capturéel gurs were turned by them on the enemy. Ab An Italian official report:- one time the enemy penetrated to During the night of Monday and the battalion headquarters on the yesterday the enemy did not renew right. The commanding officer col- his attack from the Asiago Plateau lected his personnel, wooks etc.,
drove them out. We took. 20°
pria The completely repulsed partial sohem and captured machine-guns" actions in the Grappa and Montello anil fammenwerfer. In the original regions.
attack on the left the only party We carried out thrusts on the who got in were ten Austrians. Asiago Plateau, where Allied detach. | All were promptly killed. ments captured scores of prisoners. Our Zunceasing pressure, shortened. the 'front opened by the enemy to the south of the Monte Belluno rail- way, where our deadly concentra- tions of artillery fire Are not giving any truce to enemy masses on thei battle-front or moving in back areas.
EXCUSES FOR AUSTRIAN FLILURE: OBJECT OF THE OFFENSIVE
Laspor, June 193 The Germans are beginning to find
After a quiet morning on the Piave excuses for the Austrian failure.
The Berner, Tagblatt, the unofficial
on the 18th the battle bioka out
CHIF
furiously in the afternoon. The organ of the German Embassy at Berne declares that, Austria, has not "the" enemy's fresh attempt to cross to slightest interest in extending her the right bank from Supandres to occupation of Italian territory. The Candelu wus regulsed,
simultaneous assault on the whole On the embankments of the front merely meant to prevent the river between Gardelu and Fossalta Italian from sending now Divisions to
strenuous defence tried the help France euemy sorely his impetus being broken by our infantry's unshaken Tudour. Equally intense on a vister front the struggle ged in the Fos
A telegram From Milan says the salta sector
to the south-east of Carnage on the Piave is horrifying, the Meolo und so the north of Caposile, eurrent carrying thousands of corpses, The enemy, followed up by us, de. I with broken barges and blood-spattered fended himself desperately and every poutoons.
TERRIBLE CARNAGE ON
THE PIAVES ***
· AUSTRIAN REPORT..
furd was a theatre of epis struggles, A captured Austrian Major mid be the Italian and Allied aeroplanes was the only survivor of a Battalio participating, and dropping 15,000 which crossed the river. kilos of bombs and firing tens of thousands of machine-gun rounds. Vulnerable targets were offered by the troops, which were forced into ja narrow space on the right back. The battle is continuing bitterly. The enemy, in order to preserve. some of the infal advantages that The gained does not head the immense,
losses which our rifles, guns and air- -
Losnox, June 19.
A wireless Austrian oficial report states;G HERE.
General von Dboroevic's southea
men have been inflicting during the wing in steady advance obtainedė five days
fresh advantagee and the Fissetta The prisoners now number 9011. Cazul was crossed it some points. The captures include many guns and The Italians are taking every several hundred machine-guns, while thing to stop our advance.. 50 eneiny aeroplates schová been bright down. Only two Italian or Allied machines have nos returned.
| HEAVY, FIGHTING ON PLATE. FRONT.
A British official report from the Italian Front statésr
The situation on the British Front has not changed.n..
Frisonery have been taken from nurnerous units. Most stubborn at tacks, especially on both sides of tha Oderzul-Reviso Railway, broke down? with heavy loanCB.
The Archduke Joseph's Divisions pierced several Italian lines pour Sovilla and the southern foot of Montelb
Our artillery curst out bonbard-Dur game between the Fieva and ments and are hard ng the eserny the Prints cad to the south-east of by the Bre
Asiago are again subjected to bitter assaults. Despite. the ramy, was una
The enmy's artillery was inactive We have now captured seven and Then has been mary fighting on the Piave fronte edemy little, if any, progression the The river is in flood.. Many enemy's bridges
vannga anyw
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