Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-10 | Page 2 | Southern Part of Doberdo Plateau under Heavy Fire

SOUTHERN PART OF DOBERDO PLATEAU UNDER HEAVY FIRE VIENNA, Aug. 9, noon, via London. 10:43 p. m. The following statement was issued by the Austrian war office today: In the Italian war theater: The southern part of the Doberdo plateau has been under a heavy artillery fire, which our artillery successfully answered. an-swered. In the Plava region there ha been increased artillery activity. A feeble attempt by hostile Infantry to break through our position near Zagora failed. On the Carinthian front, small hostile hos-tile detachments attacked unsuccessfully unsuccess-fully at several points. Before our positions on the Bladner-Joch (7450 feet high), the enemy left more than 100 dead. In the region of the Tyrolean frontier, fron-tier, one of our patrols on .the east of the Corno Bianco U1.26u feet high) j repulsed a hostil half company, inflicting in-flicting heavy losses without losing a single man.