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Show BRILLIANT VICTORY CAINEDBlf ITALIANS Alpini Overwhelm Austria ans in 40-hour Fight 12,-000 12,-000 Feet Above the Sea. ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS, Tuesday, May 28. (By the Associated Press.) One of the most brliliant mountain moun-tain operations since the beginning of the war was carried out by the Italians in the Tonale region, northwest of Trent, early this- week. The basin of Presena lake was captured byt Italian Alpini after forty hours of fierce fighting The Austrian Aus-trian were well entrenched. The great Presena mountain was reached by the Alpini after attacking four times under a heavy fire. The enemy was finally over whelmed by a bayonet drive. The fight was rendered more difficult by the condition of the ground, which was hard and slippery with fate spring, snows. The Italians advanced up steep ascents, down precipices and over glaciers. ROME, May 27. The brilliant victory of the Italians in the Tonale region was won in fighting on ground afJCut 12,000 feet above the sea, amid melting snows and everlasting glaciers. The battle was remarkable re-markable on account of the highly specialized spe-cialized troops engaged and the mechanical mechani-cal devices applied. The vast wastes of Tonale mountain, dominating the Camonica plateau and the approaches to Paradise pass, had been neglected by both sides as a field for offensive of-fensive operations, but now become more important. Among the results of the Italian attack at-tack were the blowing up by artillery fire of an important Austrian munitions depot and the capture of two telegraph lines which ran through Paradise pass. The Italians were assisted greatly by a violent fire. It required heroic efforts by the Alpini to carry the guns to the mountain moun-tain tops. ROME, May 29. "At Capo Sile Monday night two hostile attacks were broken up in front of our new positions," says the official report from headquarters today. to-day. "In the Presena valley we captured a patrol of thirteen. Other prisoners were taken in the Col Caprllle area. "Enemy detachments were repulsed at Mont Como and Mont Asolene." VIENNA, via London, May 29. Austrian Aus-trian headquarters report today as follows: fol-lows: , In the Tonale region the fighting revived Tuesday. Two Italian attacks, at-tacks, supported by strong artillery and mine fire, against Monticello, south of the Pass, broke down. The enemy artillery fire against our positions po-sitions on the lower course of the Piave continues. |