17 JUNE 1916, Page 2

The Milan correspondent of the Times in a long telegram

to Wednesday's paper gave a most encouraging account of the Italian position on the Trentino front before the success which we have recorded above. During the past three weeks, he says, the enemy has had only two half-successes. These were when the Italians retired from Priafora and Cengio ; but the Austrians were unable to occupy the new ground solidly. The Italians are confident that the Austrian advance is stayed. A great part of the line now held by them was deliberately chosen before the war as the best line on which to resist invasion.