The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-30
Ignore Concentrated Fire Of Aus
TRAN, Heavy Guns and Infantry,
and Press Steadily Forward,
Capturing important Positions
BOTH SIDES SUFFER IN
HIGH MOUNTAIN FIGHTING
Russians Aiming At Railroad Gen.
tiers, Continue To Move On,
While Struggle At Verdun De-.
Creases, and British Attack
tAssociatsd Press BY Federal wiroless.)


oNDoN June 2S.--RaPidly regain.
ing the ground they lost in the
big Austrian offensive of last
month, the Italians are now driving the
Teutonic foes back into their own coun.
try agaiOssin the Trentino.
The Latin .legiOns, ignoring the cur.
tain fire of th9sAustrians have plunged
forward. aqd haye reeaptured Posina
and Arsiero, and hoye retakeu the peal
POSITIONS. commanding the Adiga to
Brenta lines, and the districts surround.
ing them. ,.
The Austrians, have been making des.
perate efforts TO stem the Italian flood.
hut in vain. They have rushed large
reinforcements to the Trent front. and
have battered at the Italians with the
concentrated fire of their heavy guns
and machine guns, without seeming to
make any impression on the Latins.
Rome Admits Loss Large
Rome admits that her loss in men has
been heavy, but declares that of
the Austrians has been more so, and
that numbers of prisoners and quaint
ties Of munitions have fallen into the
hands of the victorious Italian noun.
taineer troops. r.4..-
Italian military experts admit that
the knssiaii stteresses ION the eastern
front, which are continuing uninter-
ruptedly, have, been a large factor in
the advances made by the Italians in
the TrentiRO. The Russian success
seems to be growing.
General Brusiloff has reported to the
war office at Petrograd TINT his booty
has been enormously increased by the
captures Of the, last few days. He
gives the Total. number OF German and
Austriand Rtisopers. at .l9S, 972,. officers
and msnyrand adds that he has taken
more than 1000 heavy guns, machine
guns ana bomb throwers, besides huge
quantities of munitions of all sorts
Still Striking At Kovel
The Russians are still persisting in
their attempts to strike at KOvel, some
thirty three miles northwest of Lutsk.
and at Lemberg, in Galicia. The prob,
lem in Russia is and has been largely
one Of transportation, and KOvel is
the main railroad center of the Pripet
district. Coming into KOvel from the
west and the northwest are the rail
roads from Brest .Litovsk, from War
saw by the way Of lubin, and from
Shelm, and shorter road from the
Galician bOundry.
Other roads lead out of Kovel, one
north and another to Rovno, through
the VOlhynian triangle. Lemberg is
also a railroad center, the largest in
all eastern Galieia, and one of the
roads that center there runs to Duboo
sOuthernmOst of the Volhynian for
tresses.
Life Lines For Austrians
The roads leaving KOvel and Lem
berg are the life lines of the Austrian
army north of Galicia. If Kovel falls
before the thrust of the Russian arms
then section of the Teutonic line.
more than one hundred miles long, is
left without railroad transportation
and running through n country that at
this season of the year, is nothing save
n great swamp. through which roads
cannot he constructed.
The fall of KOvel therefore would
force the Austrians back to readiust
their lines, which in turn would throw
open the German right wing, and in
turn compel the German commanders
TO withdraw to avoid the danger of
being fHnked by the Slavs under Gen
eral Brusiloff.
The lighting in the Lutsk district
therefore has been growing more and
more determined and bloody, with the
Russian Roadway checked from time
to time, by the IRENE ndous Offensiv YES
launched by Field Marshal Won Lin
singenl ..h4
Germans Attack In North
The eferhnBs are also launching at.
tacks north of the Pripet Marshes in
the evident hope of compelling the Rus,
sian commander 20 lessen the force of
his attack inthe Volhynian triangle and
protect himself farther north
The fighting in Verdun, while il has
been resumed with something of its
former Vigor can hardly be termed in
tense, Judging by the dispatches from
Berlin and Paris last night. The at
t"cks If the Crown Prince against the
French positions east of the village of
Fleury continued, but were repulsed
The British are gathering nome ntum
in their attacks upon the German lines
in nOrtherH Frdnce and Belgium South
of Ipres they entered the trenches of
the enemy at several points and sue
ceeded in making a number of prison
rrS.
Allied arrorlanos have bOmbardcd
German war shi"S Off the Belgian coast
and a number Of British airmen yester-
day destroyed four hostile aircraft.
The British are reported as having lost