The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-06-27
Italians Assume Offensive In
Trentino and Sweep Austrians
Back Over Border, Making Gen.
eral Retreat Almost Disaster
RUSSIANS CONTINUE
THEIR DRIVE IN EAST
British Make Large Gains Against
Germans At Western Front In
France and Also Along Belgian
Line, Where Fighting Is Heavy
tASsOct"tsd Press by Federal wireless,

! fAssO"'"tsd Press by Federal wirslsss.)
T ONDON, June 81. - The Italians
a." striking hard against the Aus.
trian lines, forcing the Teutons
back over front of more than twenty
miles across the border of the Trentino.
The retreat of the Austrians is general
and is admitted by Vienna, which is.
sued statement saying that the re.
tirement was Undertaken by cur
commanding generals in order to pre-.
serve our freedom Of action"
The entire front in the Trentino is
affected and the Austrian retreat
threatens TO become rout. The TIA
hans are pressing on the heels of their
enemy end already, II is claimed by
dispatches from Rome, much of the
land lost during the recent drive of
the Austrians In that sector has been
Jegained. =. Z. A.. g.. .@.g =,
Military experts declsre that the
Austrians have been compelled 10
weaken their lines by the suceessfuI
assaults of the Russian columns in
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the Itahans have been able TO take
prompt advantage Of this fact, and
strike a succession of blows which an.
pear TO, have broken down the An.
strian defense and forced them back.
Italian Attack Brilliant
Between Brenta and Etsch the Ital.
ian attack has been brilliant and most
successful, say the dispatches from
Rome, and IL IS here that Austria ad.
mits her greatest defeat.
In the BukOwina the Russians are
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curing important positions as they 90
and consolidating their lines behind
them. North of the little town of
huty' which they were reported as hav-
ing captured last Saturday, the Aus.
TRANS claim to have made a stand, and
10 have rePulsed the Slavs. In the
kimpolung region, however, Petrograd
claims to have made important gains
and the Austrians practically admit re.
verses in that district.
The fighting in Galicia has taken a
new turn, according to the dispatches
last night. There FOR several days the
TeutOnic foe has held the Russian bear
at bay, h"t Yesterday came the reports
of additional Russian gains in the
Dneister river region. Here the Slavs
have literally swept aside all opposi. |
h0n with their heavy cannon, break. |
ing the deadlock imposed for so long
by their German enemy, and crossing |
the river in the face of fearful fire. |
Losses Have Been Frightful
Attacking in massed formation. their
loss is said to have been frightful but |
Petrograd says the importance of the |
advance and captures that followed it,
compensated these losses. They have
taken the villages OF Siekerghine and
Petruve
In the Volhynia, both Vienna and
Petrograd report heavy fighting and
Vienna declares that the Germans have
stormed Russian positions three thous.
and meters wide, and have withstood
heavy counter attacks made by the
Slavs. Along the Styr river front the
Germans are said to be bombarding
the Russians and TO be launching
heavy infantry attacks, which Petro.
grad claims have been repulsed. The
Germans are declared to be using their
favorite massed formation methods,
seeking to break through the Russian
lines by sheer weight, and have, as n
consequence, lost tremendously.
From north OF, the Pripet Marshes to
Jar0bstadt there has been intense ar.
tillery bombardments from both sides,
the consumption Of ammunition having
been pr0digious, according to the re,
ports from Berlin aud Petrograd.
German Attacks Break Down
Officers arriving at Kiev, Russia,
from the front, and whose reports have
been cabled here, describe the breaking
down OF all German attacks at the
StOckhOd river by the Russians The
German reserves were hurled back and
the Russians are advancing.
The German prisoners compare the
Russian gunhre 70 an inferno of shot
and shell similar TO that which has torn
the Verdun line for many weeks.
Both Paris and Berlin report a gen,
'rol slackening ofthe fghting around
Verdun. Even the artillery ire, which
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