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Show WINTER SNOWS FALLING IN THE ALPINE REGION LAl:BANNE, Switzerland. Monday. Sept. 20, via Paris. Sept 23. 11:30 a. m.. tdelaved in transmission. Winter snows already are falling in the Alps, rendering still more perilous the work of the ItHiian and Austrian troops who are engnced In warfare in the mountainous region near the border. A correspondent of the Gazette de Lausanne Lau-sanne describes the recent battle for possession of the Austrian stronghold on top of Freikofel mountain. 9000 feet high. The attack was made under the most difficult dif-ficult conditions. The AiiPtrtans had prepared pre-pared for an attack from the east. Two battalions of Italian Alpine troops made their way around the mountain and attacked at-tacked the Austrlans Muni the rear. To reach the summit they were compelled to scale the precipitous side of the mountain, moun-tain, clinging to ropes placed in position by mountaineers. The correspondent states that the Italians raptured 250 Alis-trians Alis-trians and a large quantity of munition?. |