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Show V7U ITALIANS GAIN A MOUNTAIN FORT Geneva, Switzerland, via Paris, June o0, 11:55 p. m. A dispatch from Lai-bach, Lai-bach, Austria, to the Geneva Tribune, reports the capture by Italians of a mountain fortress at Coni Sugna, 2500 meters northeast of Ala, in Trentluo, which cost tho Austrians $800,000 to construct. The correspondent characterizes the capture as an "audacious affair." He states that an Italian captain' with 100 men climbed the steep slope and demanded that tho garrison surrender, surren-der, saying that the fortress was surrounded, sur-rounded, which was a bluff, and the garrison capitulated. Concerning other operations, the dispatch says: "The Italians on the Carnic frontier captured three passes in the Alps yos-terday. yos-terday. The Austrians have begun not only resisting, but attacking, and the battle around Gorizia is a bloody one, both sides using heavy guns and there being many infantry counter-attacks. "There is every evidence tha,t the Italians are meeting strong organized forces, especially on tho Isonzo, and are still a long way from Trlest, although al-though they are within twenty miles at Monfalcone." |