The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-19
Fighting Flares Afresh On All
Theaters Of World Conflict;
Italians Forced Out Of Trench
es BY Austrian Heavy Guns
RUSSIANS FAST NEARING
LINE OF BAGDAD RAILWAY,
Grand Duke Reports His Columns
Are Rapidly Drawing Closer TO
Important Junction City Of
Mosul After Routed Turks
tAssOcistsd Press by Federal wireless.

NSbociAteu Fresb W feuerh "heiesb-D
r 0ND0N, May l7.-With the com
ing of the warm Spring days the
- AustTians in the Isonzo front have
assumed the offensive, and according to
the official Vienna and Berlin despatch
es last night, have succeeded in clearing
the Italians out Of their first line
trenches east of Montfalcone, near the
head of the Gulf of Trieste, where they
are said to have captured many prison
ers. TFTh. 80
On another sector of the Italian front
the Austrians also are claiming advanc-
es- In the southern Tyrol, the Vienna
dispatches, say that the Austrians have
made marked advances, thanks to their
heavy artillery preparation. The Off
eial announcement describes the ad-
vance upon the Isonzo as an "import.
ant victory IL claims that the Aus
tians have $500 prisoners.
Allies Hold Their Own ...
On other fronts the allies have held
their own and in some instances have
been successful in driving back the
Teutonic forces. Russia also has con.
tinued her success in Asia Minor and
Mesopotamia. The column operating
south of Bitlis reports that il has again
forced back the Turks, and is making
rapid progress toward the important
point of Mosul, which dominates the
Bagdad railroad, and the entire Tigris
river valley. The official account of the
fighting says that the Muscovites are
nearing the Bagdad railroad, having
driven the, Turks back, after heavy
fighting. vslfi h. .-aTs7. = .. F.. .-s.r'
Aiitattempt on the part Of the Turks
to tfttack the Russians near the city of
Diarbekr was repulsed by the Russians,
who are said to have followed up the
Ottoman attack by q counter assault
that resulted in fresh losses to the
Turks. both in pen and munitions and
material.
Fight Grows General
On the western front the fighting is
fast becoming general from the Chan
mel to east of Verdun. In the vicinity
of Dixmude, where the allied line is
being held by the Belgian army the ar
tillery is exceptionally active, and there
have been repeated German attacks
but the line has held firm, At st.
George and Avocourt as well as at LIE
Mort Homme and Hill 304 the German
infantry has been attacking in clouds.
The thrusts made by the Crown
Prince against Deadman q hill, and Hill
304 are said to have been made by
masses of men, through which the
French shells and machine guns fire
blasted wide lanes, carpeted with dead
and wounded.
West of Hill 304 the assaults were
particularly fierce, but were finally
checked by the French curtain fire from
the seventy-fves, A hand grenade at
tack ut Thiaumont by the Germans was
beaten off by the French rife fire.
French Repulsed
Berlin reports that several attacks
by, the French in the neighborhood of
Hill 304 were repulsed, the French sus-
tanning heavy losses.
General Won Moltke, former chief of
the German General staff, expresses the
opinion that the Germans are gaining
slowly but surely at Verdun, giving
hope that they will eventually win the
positions they are after The opinion
is held that the Entente Allies general.
ly will be unable to accomplish more
in the future than they have in the
past. r3..I r..
Upon the eastern front the fighting
Is also growing hotter as the Spring ad-
vances, hardening the roads and the
country over which the troops have to
operate. The Germans between the
Dvinsk and wilma are reported to have
driven the Russians out of their first
line trenches after particularly des-
perate action, only to be compelled in
turn, to abandon their hard won
ground, and retire to their former posi-
tions, which they managed to hold des-
Pite repeated attacks by the Slavs. On
the lower Stripa river front where the
struggle has been going on intermit-
tently all wipt"-s the Teutons attacked.
but were repulsed. -"
The Overseas News Agency says to-
day that Constantinople reports Sc
ries of horrible atrocities by Russians
in the Lake Van and Trebizond region
of Armenian MesopOtamia. The en-
tire Nohnmmedan population remain
ing at Chitak is said to have been
slaughtered and at Erkenis and Has
sis the Russians are said to have in
vaded the towns and burned 500 alive,
including some children.
Desnqt"h"e f"om Rome received here
late last night told of an attempted
attack rro" n train bearing Queen He
lena and the royal children, by Aus
trian RerOplanPS. The attack failed
however, guns from the nearby Italian
warships compelling the Austrian avi-
ators to seek safety in fight.