21 AUGUST 1915, Page 1
The reports of progress from Italy are good and cheering.
We hear of men roped together climbing over snow at heights of eleven thousand feet. Such is soldiering on the Ortler range on the way to Trieste. Naturally in these cramped conditions there is no possibility of the brave show of a great turning movement on a plain. The work in the mountains, however, is as important as it is finely done. Its effects will appear soon. In capturing two hills on the right of the Isonzo the Italians took six hundred prisoners. The comntuniqui published on Thursday morning reported more trenches taken and two hundred prisoners. "An important position to the west of Marcottini" was also occupied.
