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Show "FOE ON ALL SIDES I AM ATTACKING," IS HERO'S LAST REPORT l".y Associated Press. ITALIAN H KADQl'A -ITERS IN NORTHERN ITALY, Monday. Dec. A visit today to the headquarters of a major general commanding a division of lie role A 1 pin I and Bersaglierl disclosed t he story of t he ma unci- in which this, division held the heights hack of the' Asiago platou T:ilik,il was cut to pieces t and the remnant 'was coinpoilcd to fall .iclt to ita present new line. Th.- gen- j V' is now engaged in n forming h'.s i J! tttered forces, which wer" seen in long I 1 ' ..;cs along the loads preparin.; to gn back I Into the tight. A major of the general's si u IT. who toward the close of the light collected the remainder of t-e men of the division and led them In the ilual charges until the order for retirement came, gave a firsthand first-hand description of the struggle. He said there were three Horsaylieri regiments, regi-ments, some Alplui battalions and one infantry regiment in the division, in addition ad-dition to the, usual quota of butteries of 'icld and middle caliher cuns. These were ranged hack of Asia go when t he enemy's drive reached Its maximum Intensity In-tensity last Wediirsviay. For twenty-four latins one' Hersasliori regiment ' had held Monte Tondarecar until its platoons had 1 tec n reduced from thirty men to six. It v, as t lien that t lie ha it aliens of Alpini were sent In their relief. The Alpini fought their wav up the hill, galniiuf the summit against heavy odds, only to llnd their comrades cm to pieces. Most of them were lying dd from stal wounds. Now the Alpini battalions bat-talions found themselves in t he cent r r of concentration of enemy forces which gradually encircled them. Some of Die battalions maneuvered and were carried back and forth in the fury of the lighting light-ing along the slopes. Others remained on the summit, with the enemy surrounding surround-ing them. At f o'clock on Wednesday morning t he colonel of these battalions sent Ids Inst report to the general. It said, laconically: la-conically: "The enemy is on nil sides and T am about to v I large." Tha I was i he last which was ever heard of him or anv of l is men. The . enveloping masses grew denser and the gallant Alpini band which had gone to i escue the Him saglleri was wiped out of existence. El ch ting- continued along other points of the line until tile I orces were decimated deci-mated and it became clear teat the enemv greatly outnumbered the 1 taliaps. The general himself, who was directimr operations oper-ations from a point just hack of the line, narrowly escaped a shrapnel shell whlvh hurst near his automohiie. It was then l hat the major who recount l these events gathered the remnant of the division divi-sion and fought on the remainder of the lav until the new Italian lines of defense fre. formed across the Era nzeha mid adena passes, leading to the Bienta val- ley and the plain. It Is here the lines are now resting, with good prospects of holding. The correspondent visited a number of ooints on the present line and talked with o;;icers and men. Ail were con rid en t of oemg nMo to hold when the new attack, wnivh they expect in a few das, Is made |