Evening star., 1915-06-23
|TAL|ANSREPORT
REPULSE FOR FOE
important Reinforcements
Have Been Sent to Aus
trians Is Claim.
BERLIN SAYS ENEMY
HAS MET REVERSES
Malborgeth Positions Captured by
Rome's Forces, Says an Un-
official Dispatch

LONDON. June 25.-Ihe tdlian gen
eral staff announces the arrival OF I'M
portant renforcements for the Aus
trains along the Isonzo front north OF
the Gulf of Trieste. In the Monte Nero
district these forces, believed by the
Italians to have been brought m from
the Galician front, were encountered
for the first time in a battle In which
the announcement says they were re-
pulsed by Alpine troops.
An unofficial dispatch from Geneva
says the Italians have captured all the
positions defending Malborgeth and are
bombarding the fortress itself.
Berlin reports that the Italians have
sustained serious reverses in the last
four days on the Isonzo.
Malborgeth Bombarded.
Geneva Tribune dispatch from Lai-
bach says:
THE Italians have gained posses
sion of all the positions defending NAL
borgeth after fierce struggle against
the Austrians. particularly Honved de-
tacbments which displayed great ten
acity The Italians now are violently
bombarding the city
Arrival of Austrian reinforcements
stopped the Italians advance at Ca
poretto. but they have not gone back
across the ISonZo.
Thirty thousand Austrians who de-
bouched from the Ternova forest are
marching against positions north of
Gorilla.
Hundreds Are Killed.
Southeast of F1itsch strong Austrian
forces sought to drive back the Italians.
who gave way before superior numbers
and retired SO far the frontier.
where they concealed themselves in
forest and allowed the Austrians to
pass When the Austrians were in
stalled in Italian positions the Italians
opened a murderous machine gun fire.
killing over 400 of their adversarfes,
and forcing the rest out of their posi-
tions.''
italian Reverses Claimed.
BERLIN. via London. June 23-Dis-
patches from the Italian front report
serious reverses experienced by the
Italians during the last four days in
their attempts to storm the Austro-
Hungarian line along the Isonzo river.
q few miles from the Italian frontier.
The attacks. the reports say. were
preceded by three days of terrific ar
tillery bombardment- The Italians, then
in thick lines of skirmishers one be-
the heights. the submits of which
were held by the Austrians. only to be
moved down by rife and machine gum
fire.
Six Attacks In Two Days.
The attacks were repeated six times
In two days, and each time are de-
clared to have been repulsed with
heavy losses. The attackers left large
numbers of dead between the lines, and
many wounded could be seen making
their way painfully down the rocky
and precipitous slopes.
Austrian women and girls are dis
tnguishing themselves by carving
water and food to the army positions,
which at some places are at an alti-
tude of $500 feet. and also by attend
ing the wounded
Use Cliffs for Defenses.
Eugene Lenhoff, correspondent of the
zeitung Ammittag. telegraphs an ac-
count of the Austrian Notifications on
the south Tyrol front. which he was
permitted to visit. Tho Austrians, he
says. not content with entrenchinr on
the surface have blasted galleries in
the interior OF the mountain summit
which end in chambers for the artil-
lery.
The muzzles Of the guns" the cor.
respondent adds. thus peep through
cliffs from positions utterly ,naccess-
ibie to the enemy. The infantry posi-
tlons are similarly blasted into the
face Of the cliffs and very impree-
nable The Italians on this front are
devotfng their efforts to bringing up
heavy artillery and the buildinS 81
roads. and. therefore, have not vet
iAunched a vigorous offensive"