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Show 8000 Austrian Killed in Attack By United Press. ROME. Jun 10. At least 1000 Aul-trians Aul-trians succumbed in the fruitless enemy offensive around Mount Ortlgara between be-tween Jun 1 and it. according to war office estimate today. Th battle for this dominating point set a new mark In ferocity. The Austrian attacked In successive waves with every known device of killing big guns, little gun, machine guns, liquid fire, flame projector, asphyxiating asphyxiat-ing gasee. mines and bayonets. The ground was literally churned Into powder pow-der and soaked with th blood of th fighters. Today neither side held Ortlgara. The barrage wares of both ths Italian and Austrian force converged over Its summit making It Impossible for any human being to llv through the rain I of sheila |