New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-04
AUSTRIANS NOW
QUITTING FIRST
LINE ON ISONzO
Pushed Back Within Is
Miles of Trent and in
Gail Valley.
ITALIANS FOIL
SURPRISE ATTACK
Enemy Attempts Assault in Fog
at Scanortz, but Is
RepulSed.

Geneva Aug. "a dispatch to The
Tribune de G6neve" from Laibach
says:
The Austrians are preparing to
evscuate their first lines of defence in
the lsonzo region. from Travignolo %
Avisia. In Tyrol the Italians are fore
ing the enemy across the railway. In
strong Italian advance in the Gail
River valley the hest Tyrolese troops
were overcome, and several points on
the Gail were occupied. In the FelIa
River region (Carinthia) the Italians
took possession of several miles of the
railway"
Verona (via Paris, Aug. Al
though the weather still is unsettled,
the advance of Italian forces against
Rovereto, an Austrian town. thirteen
miles southwest of Trent. is progress
ing along the Arsa Valley.
The forts surrounding the town al
ready are said to be suffering under the
fire of Italian siege guns, which were
the mountains south of Rovereto
Italian officers arriving from the
front say that the Austrian attempts to
retake the positions occupied by the
Italians on Carso Plateau reached their
climax when the Austro- Hungarian
commander launched against Mount
SeibuSi one of four keiserjaeger reSi-
ments. which had just arrived from
Vienna.
The kaiserjaegers met a regiment Of
bersaglieri and shouted TO them 70 sur
render. The next moment, the officers
say, 1000 fixed bayonets flashed in 3
desperate hand-to-hand struggle, and
when finally the bersaglieri occupied
the Austrian positions, the field where
the kaiserjaegers had stood was scene
of immense carnage. Few of the Aus
TRANS had escaped.
Rome. Aug. THE following official
statement from general headquarters
of the Italian army, dated Tuesday,
says:
In the valley of Cadorna our massed
batteries continue the work of demol-
ishing the enemy's defences.
in Carnia the enemy on the lst tried
to take the offensive against the Ne
Data peak conquered by US on the Goth
and was repulsed with heavy losses.
"On the I'd, profting by the fog, the
enemy made a surprise attack on our
positions, from Scarbitz TO Monte Cris-
tallo. which was also repulsed. We have
further details of the success obtained
by our troops on the 30th at Forcella-
Cianalot. Our adversary left over a
hundred bodies on the field, and we
picked up two hundred rifles, quantities
of ammunition and twenty prisoners.
During the two following days the en-
emy's artillery, posted in the vicinity
of Malborgeth. swept Forcella continu-
ously, occasionally using asphyXiating
shells Our artillery, however, sue
ceeded in silencing il.
ION the Carso plateau during the
night of the I'd the enemy renewed vio-
lent attacks against our right wing in
the zone of Monte Seibumi, preceding
them with demonstrations on the oppo-
site wing. All his efforts broke down
against the steadfast resistance Of our
troops.
During yesterday our offensive con-
tinued to make appreciate progress
toward the centre. On the right wing
the struggle TO enlarge our hold in the
Monte Seibusi zone continued sharp
and stubborn. We made 345 prisoners,
three Of whom were officers