Show TERRIBLE LOSSES IN CARSO BATTLE war correspondent gives fihs v thrilling description of the fight HEROISM ON BOTH SIDES surpassed all horrors winter had seen in nine months with aus tro hungarian forces field Is strewn with dead zurich A thrilling description of 0 the recent terrific battle on the ca barso arso plateau from the pen of joseph a war correspondent who viewed the gigantic struggle from the most advanced austro positions has just been published here the eighth battle on the isonzo isonio was the culmination of the italian campaign says 1 I have spent nine months on this front and witnessed the awful struggles around roberdo and gorigin Go but the hell on the carso plateau surpassed all horrors I 1 I 1 find seen before the italian attacks la in this latest and greatest battle batile were of almost incredible ferocity and the heroism displayed by both sides will live forever in history the new italian offensive was well planned and carried out with great skill and energy on the comparatively short front of six miles gen count cadorna threw no less than 0 6 men into battle or 10 q OW men more than lie he used in his september drive on t front of ten miles two bulf full corps of infantry the fourteenth and the twenty fourth attacked on a front fronton of only three and one halt half miles together with a corps of dismounted cavalry while at the same time eight regiments stormed forward against hill follows joffres methods in his great effort to break the austro hungarian lines general cn ca dorna used the methods of joffre and Brus ue ile prepared the storming attacks by a drum fire of his heaviest artillery and when after a terrible bombardment of hours the austrian positions seemed to be pulverized or at least badly shaken he ordered a general attack his infantry with admirable dash and courage advanced in formations twenty lines line deep under a withering fire from the heights the italians concentrated their efforts on the short front fron between tween graco dl aberna and and hills and from two bid sides s the italian waves rolled forward until at I 1 they reached jamilano Jam lano the austrians Aust lang rians soon found themselves flanked from two directions and their retreat was iw impossible possible as the italians had penetrated a full mile to their rear and threatened to cut them oft off completely when the situation became extremely critical for the austrians Aust rians two tyrolean regiments launched a furious counterattack counter attack the italians were caught in the flank and fell in rows under the hall of austrian shells and bullets nearly fifteen hundred men were cut oft off and had to surrender during the night the battle around hills and and raged incessantly italian re arrived continually and when the morning came the right lank flank of the defenders hung in the air and the ruins ruing of were in the hands bands of the italians A counterattack counter attack of tyrolean regiments and hungarian troops reestablished established re the austrian line but it was bent back three quarters of a mile on a front of about two miles this was the whole result ot of 48 hours of the most bloody fighting of the present war all during the next neat day and the following night the italians continued their storming attacks without a moments pause their reserves seemed to be inexhaustible but they made no further headway on the morning of the fourth day they gave up their efforts to break the austro hungarian front only in the southern part of the carso plateau they attacked 12 hours longer in their latest attempt to reach trieste the italians sacrificed at least men I 1 am positive that of their officers and soldiers were killed wounded or taken prisoners la in the sector between louvica and hill alone but tile the losses of the aus arians were also very heavy when the battle ceased the field was covered with dead they th ey are arc all holy friend f and foe an austrian general said to me pointing to heaps of corpses let us kneel down and pray for them |