The Elbert County tribune., 1916-05-26
TEUTONS DRIVEN FROM TRENCH
IN FIERCE ATTACK ON
vERDUN.
RUSSIANS JOIN BRITISH
OVER $4,000 ITALIANS TAKEN
PRISONERS SINCE AUSTRIAN
DRIVE BEGAN.

Fighting of desperate nature was
reported from the three PRINCIPAL the
aters of war Monday-verdun. the
Italian front. and the British line in
France. In Italy the Austrians arc
hammering at southern Tyrol with
artillery of immense caliber and a
powerful army. Vienna reports gains
though the Italians are resisting he
roically.
Paris records the capture of German
trenches along a front of more than
one mile on the Meuse with the cap
ture of many prisoners and the occu-
patton of a portion of Fort Doua-
umont
The British were forced to evacu-
ate trenches on front of two kilo-
meters near Gevenchy-en -Gohelle.
Sea battle between German and
Russian Baltic fleets rumored though
no details are reported.
London, May 23.-Infantry attacks
by the Germans in the Verdun re-
pagne; a British success on the Vimy
ridge and further successful on
slaughts by the Austrians in the
southern Tyrol are chronicled in
the latest official communications.
After period of inactivity by the
infantry around Verdun. the German
foot soldiers have been hurled against
the entire French line In the LIE Mort
Homme region. East of LIE Mort
uoypyna tho Carr,,apa popatrotad q
first French lines. but were driven
out with serious losses.
To the west and on the northern
slopes of lie Mort Homme the Ger
mans occupied portions of French ad-
vanced trenches.
Under a violent fire by French
guns the Germans are reported to
have retreated from the position in
disorder. Artillery continues active in
other sectors about yerdun.
The French have cleared a German
trench In Champagne by surprise
attack. All the occupants of the
trench are reported either to have
been killed or captured.
Further north the British have with
stood two German thrusts in the re-
gion of Loos and Wieltje and the loyal
North Lancashires have recaptured a
crater on the Vimy ridge, the scene
of much hard fighting in the past
The crater was captured by the Ger
mans on May 1S.
The Italian forces have been eject
ed from Col Santo (southeast of Ro
vereto), according to the Austrian of.
ficial statement Since the begin.
ming of the Austrian attack" the
statement says, I'VE have captured
257 officers. 12.900 men, 107 guns,
twelve 2S-centimeter howitzers and
sixty-eight machine guns"
German aeroplanes drop bombs on
Cairo, Egypt, killing two persons and
wounding several
A force of Russian cavalry broke
through Turkish lines and joined the
British on Tigris river In Mesopo-
| tamia.
Six persons were killed and sixteen
wounded by bombs dropped in Ger.
man air raid on Dunkirk.
London, May 20.--The fourth yes
sci sunk in the new submarine cam.
paign -ainst German shipping was
the steamer Trave. The crew was
| landed.
The Trave, formerly the Shamrock
was of 762 gross tons.
A dispatch from Hull to Lloyds
says that the motor fishing boat Os
prey has been sunk by the gunfire oil
German submarine. The crew was
picked up.
None of the passengers or crew OF
the French coasting steamer Mira
were saved when she was sunk as q
result of a torpedo attack In the Med
iterranean on May 49,
Replying to the German suggestion
that Great Britain in response to the
change in German submarine cam
paign should modify the food block
ade, Lord Robert Cecil, minister ol
war trade. informed the Associated
Press there was not the remotest pos
sibility that British economic pres
sure on the central powers would be
relaxed.
British warships and aeroplanes
bombarded town of Ell Arisk In Egypt
which is held by Turks.
Italians forced to withdraw from
Il part of their lines in region of Tren,
under three days bombardment.
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