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Show BATTLE RAGES III 1 BLIZZHHD IRDUNDGORIZIA Big Guns Bombard Town While Infantrymen Attack in Gale Blowing Sixty Miles an Hour. SNOW WILL COVER BODIES TILL SPRING Italians Trap Enemy in a Pass, Cut Off Retreat With Machine Guns; Slaughter Slaugh-ter Follows. ' (SWU1 cht hr Arrnrint "i'h Ivwvlon D-lly Tclt graph ami In trr Ltlonl News tirvic.) IiUNDON, Dec. The Italians, fighting under unparalleled renditions, arc keeping up their violent attacks upon up-on the Austrian position defending Gori-.ia. Gori-.ia. Tho Gorizia and Tolmino bridgeheads bridge-heads are under almost continual aa-tault. aa-tault. Dispatches reaching here tonight from points near the front tell of the tre-mendoub tre-mendoub handiraps under whic h the Italians are fighting. An icy gale of more than sixty miles an hour is whistling whis-tling across the mountain crests where the Italians are attacking the almost impregnable im-pregnable positions of tho Austrians. So strong is the wind that on occasions the men have bt-en forced to lie flat to save themselves from being carried over the edo of precipices and hurled to death in the deep canyons of the Carso. Tho losses on both sides outrival anything any-thing before seen in war when the comparatively com-paratively short front is taken into consideration. con-sideration. Thousands are buried under the mow, where their bodies will lie until spring. Wounded men freeze to I'ath before aid can reach them. Fiht for Nine Days. The Italians continue their attacks around Oslavla, whero for nine days and nights the lighting has beeu continuous. Bodies 'are piled high everywhere. A dispatch to the Idea Nazionale of Udiua, describing the fight, says: "In a fight near Oslavia two battalions bat-talions of Hungarian honved were wiped cut. Upon tho previous day the Italians had captured a pass between Sabotiuo and Oslaviu, driving out the Austrians. 'The next morning the Austrian commander com-mander hurled two battalions against the poaitiou with orders to the men not to return to Gorizia if they should fail to retake it. "The Italians prepared an ambush. After tho Hungarians had penetrated the pass they found their retreat cut off by machine guns. In a spa-ce of thirty square yards the Italians counted 450 bodies. Of the 150 others only fil'ty escaped. ' ' Says Latins Were Repulsed. The Austrian war office tonight reports re-ports the repulse of new Italian attacks upon the Oslavia sector. The official statement says: After the repeated unsuccessful attacks of the last few clays against the bridgeheads of Tolmino and our mountain positions north thereof, quiet prevailed there yesterday. Near San Martino Italian detachments detach-ments which approached with sandbags sand-bags were annihilated.. Gorizia again has been subjected to an especially vigorous bombardment, bombard-ment, which in the center of the town caused considerable fresh damage. dam-age. An important gain upon the Austrian front, where part of the Austrian trenches have been occupied, and a surprise sur-prise attack by Alpine troops in the Ledro valley are chronicled iu the Rome official statement. It says: In the Ledro valley one of our detachments of Alpinists descended a precipice north of Pre by means of ropes and surprised the enemy, who had been reinforced, aud drove him back, afterward firmly occupying occu-pying the position. Minor actions ending in our favor fa-vor are reported from northwest of Koneeguo, in the Valley of Sugana, in the liienz-pischbach ridge, and tho Valley of Seebach in G-nlictz. Our infantry occupied in front of Tolmino a part of an enemy entrenchment en-trenchment on Santa Maria hill, capturing rifles and munitions. There is no change on the rest of the front. |