Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-18
ITALIANS LOSE
OVER 5000 men
IN ENGAGEMENT
French Forces on serbo-G Greek
Frontier Showing Ac.
tivity.
AMERICAN FLYING
CORP MAKE RAID
Minor Fights Betwsen Russian
and Turkish Forces in Favor
Of Russians.

London. May 17.-FrOm the TOnale
Pass region in western Trentino to
Monfalcone, short distance from
the head of the Gulf of Trieste, the
Austrians are vigorously on the OMEN.
sive against the Italians. In Tyr0l
to the south of Trent, heavy infantry
attacks to the east of the Adige river,
have forced the Italians again to
abandon some of their advance posi-
tions, and resulted in the capture by
the Austrians of an aggregate Of IA.
officers and 5000 men. In addition,
13 guns and seven machine guns were
captured.
Vienna says that south Of lRovercto
the Austrians stormed zegnat0rta.
but Rome asserts that the i've At
tacks launched were put down with
heavy casualties, the bodies Of nu-
merous dead Austrians floating away
in the current OF the Adige river. Sl
Repuiss Reported.
The repulse Of another Austrian at
tack in the Sugana valley is also re.
ported by Rome. Along the remain-
der OF the front, there were heavy ar-
tillery bombardments, with here and
there infantry attacks. Bombing OPP
erations by aviators on both sides
have taken place.
\ Fights of minor importance with
the advantage in favor Of the Rus
SLAMS have taken place in the north
ern end Of the Russian front. IN Ash
attic Turkey, around Diarbekr, the
Turks assumed the offensive against
the Russians, but were again repuls-
ed. 49,.
The French are showing activity
around the Lake Dorina and other
sectors of the SerboGreek frontier.
having occupied Devetepe, and push
ed their forces east toward MOnastir.
The infantry of both sides along this
front continue to make preparations
for possible encounter.
American Drowned.
OF three Americans on board the
Dutch steamer, Batavia the 5th, which
was sunk, one was drowned. One of
the Americans expressed the belief
that the steamer struck mine.
( The Entente airmen have been par
ticularly active against the German
positions, and there have been COM
bats with the German flyers. Several
German aerocraft were brought down
by British and French ayiators. In
one of the raids, American aviators
fighting with the French army, under
the title of the Franco-American Fly
ing Corps, took part in the first foray
as an individual unit.
American Flying Corps.
The American aviators who have
been in the service Of the, French
army for the past year, and who were
brought together to form dotilla
under the name of the FrancO.Ameri.
can Flying Corps, took part in anb1x.
pedition over the German lines today
for the first time as a separate unit.
They sustained particularly heavy
shelling as they crossed the border.
The machine piloted by Lieutenant
William K. Thaw of Pittsburg lost
part of it's tail piece, an6Et{ls pr0pel-
lor was damaged by shell, but Lieu
tenant Thaw brought 1t safely back
to camp.
Corporal Victor Chapman's ma
chine was also hit, and driven out OF
it's course, returning so late to its
base as to cause anxiety as to Chap
mans fate.
British Lose Monitor.
A British official communication
issued this evening admits the loss OF
a small monitor as the result OF
Turkish batteries fire. The monitor
was said to have been set on. dre.
The British admiralty denied the
statement, but said later dispatches
confirmed the report.
A German torpedo boat has been
sunk by mine OF Falsterbo, Sweden.
according to the Beringske Tidende's
Malmo correspondent. All but one
man of the crew were saved,