New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-29
italians Enter, City
from the North, Is
ChiassO Report.
FOE REPULSED,
/ VIENNA ASSERTS
Admits Invader Pierced
Posts, but Claims to
Have ReWOn Them.
nv Cable 10 The Tribune.

fBy Cable TO The Tribune.
Paris, Nov. 2S.-Gorizia has
fallen, according to reports from
Chiasso, on the Swiss-Italian bor-
de- These dispatches, sent through
Geneva, add that the Italians en-
tered the town from the north.
No official confirmation Of these
messages has yet reached Paris.
Vienna asserts that heavy attacks
by the invader along the whole
I.onzo front were repulsed with
teavy losses. Rome gave out no Of
fetal statement to-day and its ST.
lence is construed here as an indi-
cation that the critical moment on
which hangs the fate Of the Aus
trian stronghold has come.
The report that the city has
fallen is credited generally here.
For the last week Berlin and vi
enna have remarked on the increas-
ing damage done by the besiegers'
guns. The Italian artillery was
moved nearer the city every day.
Moreover, it is known that General
Cadorna has brought reinforce
ments from the Tyrol front for
these operations. Hopelessly out
numbered, the Austrians could not
long withstand the fierce and re-
peated attacks Of the invader, COW
cred by the intense fire Of his heavy
artillery.
Italians Pierce Lines.
In the Austrian official statement
issued tonight there are signs that
the fall of the city is practically at
hand. Vienna talks of repulsing all
the Italian assaults, but at the same
time the Austrians admit that the
invader succeeded in piercing their
lines in many important places.
With more, and still more, men to
pour into the breach, these strategic
positions can be penetrated again,
as Vienna admits they were forced
to-day. And then the city must fall
if indeed, it has not already
fallen.
For the Goriza bridgehead, the key
to the stronghold, furious battle has
been fought Vienna tells how the
ensmv attacked "uninterruptedly with
his fresh and strong forces" In the at
tempt to carry this important post.
For Oslavia and for the Podgora crests,
which dominate the bridgehead, fierce
struggle waged.
Vienna admits that the Italians sue
ceeded in gaining the summit north
east Of Oslavia and the positions still
held by the defenders on Podgora, but
saws that counter attacks won both
35ts back. The ground before the
bridgehead, says Vienna, was covered
with dead, and near Oslavia alone more
than one thousand bodies were counted.
Tolmino's Fall Near.
Along the rest Of the lsonzo front
the struggle continues. On the Doberdo
plateau, south of Gorilla, the Italians
attack constantly. Further north, where
Tolmino is the objective of the invader
another fierce fight is in progress, with
the bridgehead as its centre Here, too
the Italians have pressed so close 10 the
Austrian positions that victory seems
only q matter Of time.
The terrible losses which the lsonzo
campaign has already cost the Italians
have left General Cadorna still more
determined 10 wrest the Austrian
stronghold from the Austrians. Re-
ports that Gorilla has fallen have come
before and have not been confirmed
But that the stronghold must fall is
accepted here as inevitable.
AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL.
The following official communication.
was issued at Vienna to-day:
On the whole littoral front the
Italians continued attacking actively
In their unsuccessful attempts yes
terday they lost heavily. The most
stubborn battle was fought at the
Gorilla bridgehead, where the enemy
uninterruptedly attacked with all MS
fresh and strong forces. especially,
near Oslavia, where they attempted
to break through along the road.
For short time the summit north-
east of OsIavis was in the hands OF
the enemy, but, after a heavy hre oy
our artillery, the troops regained al
their original trenches s'orn''"s
them.
Win Podgora Posts.
The Italians also penetrated our
nosition at Podgora, but were driven
out and afterward pursued by an en-
cacious fire. The ground before the
bridgehead was covered with enemy
dead Near 0slavia alone we count
On the border OF the Doberdo
plateau the Italians limited their
onerations TO an attack southwest OF
San Marino, which was repulsed.
Foually unsuccessful were all attacks
in the northern Isonzo sector, near
Zagora, against several points OF
the Tolmino bridgehead, at Mrvlivrh,