Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-28
AUSTRIANS HURL GAS
BOMBS INTO ITALIAN
TRENCHES ON ISONZO
Summit of Zeillenkoffel
Occupied by Alpini- Aus
trians Make Desperate
Assaults on Freikofel in
Carnic Alps.
ROME. June %.

ROME. June %.
with the artillery duel among the Al
pine craas of Trentino ana TyrOl becom-
ing more and more violent the Austrians
have introduced the use Of poisonous
gases along the 1sonzo River front I'm the
Gorilla crownland Shells charged with
asphyNatlnE fumes are being hurled
against the italian trenches. The floods
In the lson2o, north and south Of Gorilla
which checked operations in that district
have begun TO subside, but fresh storms
have broken over the Carnic Alps which
threaten to cause other floods.
10 ls officially stated by the War Office
that the Austrian officers have begun
the circulation Of false information among
the rank and nle In order TO encourage
them. one batch OF Austrian prisoners
taken near SaErada expressed great SUR
prise when they learned that Italy had
not been visited by a devastating earth
quake recently. They declared that their
officers had told them all OF Calabria had
been destroyed by quake.
PREMIER OFF TO FRONT.
Premier Solandra has left for general
headquarters, where he will hold con-
ference with King Victor Emmanuel
Deputy Bissolau who Joined the army
at the outbreak OF war with the rank
of sergeant in the Alpine Rifles. has been
promoted to a lleutenancy for bravery IN
the fghting south of Trent in the Adlge
valley.
Counter attacks by the Austrans at
Zellenkofel Pass west of the Pass OF
Monte CrOce, were rcpulsed. italian guns
are being mounted at an altitude OF 25OO
feet to sweep the pass
There iA no official confirmation of tho
report that GorizIa has been taken.
Official dispatches report that tho
Italians have Invested the city on three
cid he Nl,n s,IN l, uN1 fN,.NH
fed IL is not expected to fall quickly.
The Italian Alpine troops hghtng in |
the Carnic Alps have further strength |
ened their hold on Plocken by the cap
ture of the Peaks OF zellenkoffel
"on the Tyrol-Trentlno frontier long |
range artillery duels continued" says |
the official report I'm Carnioa the |
usual vain attack on Frelkofel was re-
peated. West Of the Pass OF Monte |
Croce our troops occupied the summit |
OF zeillenkoffel"
This peak is $500 feet high and lies west
of Freikofel, forming part of the Keller
spitzen table land which Overlooks |
Plocken. about two hours march away.
THE enemy is continually growing in
numbers" the correspondent says, "and
never let's night pass without n siren
uous attempt Ia recapture Frekofcl"
Regarding the fighting along the line of
the Isonzo the official report says:
"Our progress is developing slowly but
without pause. To hasten the subsidence
of the floods along the lower Isonzo the
destruction OF the Monfalcone Canal at
its mouth was ordered The operation
was conducted courageously by detach-
ment Of engineers under a violent fire"
VIENNA SAYS FOE REFUSED.
The Austrian official statement, re-
ceived from Vienna, which says IAN
italian attack made Saturday on the
Monfalcone Canal, south OF Sagrado was
repulsed." apparently refers to this opera
ton. Regarding 1t, the correspondent
says:
For some days progress between
and Monfaleone has been Sc
Clously impeded on account OF the vast
hoods I'm the valley caused by the enemy
iAving damned the canal branching off
he lsorzo near Sagrado,
"An italian pontoon corps, though
inder fire the whole time, has con
structed another dixie near the snot
where the river empties itself into the
canal, so the inundation is now rapidly
subsding.
For several days the Austrans, who
have retired under the protection of their
at Jarvis. Tolmino and Goe-
'itz," says the correspondent, succeeded
IN playing terrible havoc with various
villages, many OF whose inhabitants were
killed or MANNED by exploding shells
from a cleyerly concealed battery of
z-inch guns