The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-27
new ITALIAN NAVAL MONSTERS
0UTRANCE ENEMY DREADNoUCHTS
Floats mounted With Huge New Guns Enter Gulf and
lombard Triestey While British Monitors Shell the
Lear Slopes of Hermada Mountain AS the Army At
tacks in Front.

attack of the Bersaglieri, sgrenadiers
and infantry, who discovered the
nests of enemy machine guns and cap
tured an enormous quantity of ma
terial and a large number of prison
ers.
AT this point the Austrian reserves
We're ordered to attack from their
higher, positions. There ehsued a
CHASTITY hand to hand fight, the Ital-
ians sbeing completely victorious, al
though the carrying of each terrace
was equal to the conquering Of the
rampant of a fortress.
THE battle is still progressing on
the rough, rocky slopes of the HERNIA
da. The Italians are advancing over
the terraces of fire in the keenest ex-
pectation of winning the summit. The
fall of the fortress is close at hand.
1.-THE Austrian correspondents adj
nit the impetuosity of the Italian Of
fensive. The communique of the
Vienna War Office says these are the
severest days of the war on the Isonzo
front The JFremdenblatt of Vienna
says the Italian command desires to
reach Trieste by a direct route along
the sea with three lines of attack, and
the same paper states that the battle
~
sumption examination ever known,
and infconclusion asserts that the de-
lenses nearest Trieste will be attacked
very soon.
s"The Zurich. Post says the italian
Infantry and artillery, already ire
mendously superior to the Austrians,
are daily becoming. stronger. = If one
Italian battery is silenoed, this paper
says from 10 to 20 new ones imme-
diately takes it's place.
sit seems the Italian command,
knowing a free Europe must issue
from the victory of the Allies, is COM
peting in bravery and action, bringing
Italy's maximum contribution to the
common effort of crushing the Cen
trail empires.
1.-The genius of General Cardorna,
which ripened in silence, has hereto
fore been chiefly observed in his or
ganization of the closest collabora-
ton between the different arms over
a very large front, obtaining the 1arg-
est results possible from the cooper
alton of the aerial and naval arms
1.-THE diversion that the Austrians
attempted in the Trentino proves that
they realize<that they are losing that
enemy communique admit the SUI
-periority Of Italys offensive means.
They admit alsa Austrian ir~sriority
| in the air.
| The laconicism of General Cadorna's
bulletins which do not indicate even
the positions captured NOR the OBJ
Ejectives toward which the Italian
troops are advancing on a. front of 40
miles, is explained by the fact that
the higher command does not desire
to reveal Ito the. enemy, already un-
1 certain on account Of the great
/ length of front. the aims and object
= ives of the attack.
1.-The battle continues extremely
| violent especially on the Carso and
on the slopes of the Hermada.p But
the advance proceeds without inter
ruption, the Italians destroying sue
4 cessive lines of Austrian defenses
consolidating the conquered territory,
and proceeding to the next Austrian
line. Daily the. number of Austrian
/ prisoners taken increases.