BROWN FILLY (Downshire— Desert Rose), 1,100 GUINEAS: Mr. E. G WHITE (N.S.W.). INGLIS AND SONS' SALE. CHESTNUT COLT (Mountain King—Lady Mostyn). 1,300 GUINEAS: MR. S. A. RAWDON (Victoria). H. CHISHOLM AND CO'S SALE. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 73 wordsIn the Carpathians and all along the rugged slopes that fringe the southern borders of Galicia, battle after battle has been fought for the possession of the passes, now to capture one, now to hold it and beat off a counter-attack. One of them, in a locality that it it necessary not to specify with exactness here, forms the subject of our illustration. The key of the battlefield, the tall, isolated hill in the centre of the drawing, which overlooks the pass seen to the left as the reader looks at the picture, was held by the Austrians in great force, with their troops strongly posted in an almost ideal defensive position, holding a series of entrenched lines on the mountain-side, each set of trenches having the advantage of a clear command of fire over those below. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 - 1946), Sat 17 Apr 1915, Page 56
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