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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. A dispat h Horn Koine of yeesterday say-: Let ters received in Koine from otlieers at the front 1 agree that the lighting on the Isonso river and 1 on the Camo plateau may well he taken as an excellent example of the perfect realization of the plans of tin- Italian commanders. Nothing in these engagements was left to chance. Everything was worked out with mathematical precision. A lieu tenant of artillery, writing from the front. Ml s s the formidable Austrian defenses on Mount Pod-g.ro and on Mount Michclc are no longer recognisable, " the Italian artillery having done its work J so well. A lew .lays saw the destruction Of what 1 cost Austria a vast sum of money to build. Other 1 letters relate that a large proportion • •! the Austrian losses wen caus.-d. not by the Italian lire, but hv the burling down of rocks. Over 10.000 h men were thus crushed to death in their trenches. At San Martini no fewer than 2,900 Austrian dead ,i Were found in a group of trenches, crushed by ■ falling rock. The Italians, these letters set forth, h.-t comparatively few men in this lighting. The ,. reason-, would appear to be: First, the excellent use or artillery, and. second. Iretpient charges with the bayonet, weapon which the Italians apparent!] * handle p. better advantage than do their op laments." Amsterdam reports that heavy fighting is in progress - on the British front near Ipres. According g to telegrams from Court ral, Belgian*, the boom of 1 gnat guns and mine explosions was audible there e lor hours, and it was quickly followed by a Btesdj t Stream of wounded men from the vicinity of 11 ge. •• Mo-t of the casualties were the result of shrapnel 1 ■wounds. The Luxemburg cot respondent of the Tyd I report- that 140.000 Germans the last ten days s have passed through Luxemburg on the way to the e western war theater. It is reported that the important iron bridge eon neeting Qalata with Stand... ul. which was opened ,| In 1912, has been blown up by submarine-. Galata a i- situated on the north -ide of the Hidden Horn. opposite the Stamhoiil quarter, and is the largest ;r suburb of Constantinople.
