The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-04-18
Germans RepuIsed, Leaving the
Ground Covered With Their
Z Dead After Two Determin-
ed Advances In Counters
AUSTRIANS ATTEMPT
A SURRENDER RuSE
Italian Front Blazing Again,
While Reports From verdun
Are Contradictory Germans
Report French Repulse
CAs.Ocia.sd Pres. BY Federal wirsl....,

ASSOCIATED Press BY Federal wireIsssJ
I ONDON, April l6.-An inn
IL portant offensive on the part
of the Russians in the Dvinsk re-
gion' is reported yesterday in the
official dispatches from Petro-
grad, which state that the Rus
slams, after having smashed an
opening with high explosive
shells through four lines of bar
bed wire entanglements, advan-
.ced and seized the crests of two
hills within the German positions.
This advance was made south OF
Garbunkova. > r.
The Germans pounded the new
Russian positions with their ar
tillery before the Saws could con-
solidate the ground they had won
and then launched a counter at
tack with infantry. This attack
and its renewal were repulsed, the
ground over which the Germans
had twice advanced and twice re-
treated being covered with their
dead. ',.....lIGs. ~; LIZ
Treachery Reported .-
Austrian treachery developed a
new phase in Galicia. according
to the Petrograd dispatches.
Where the Russian and Austrian
advance lines approach each other 20
within q few yards at Trzibouchoveze,
the Austrians armed themselves with
rifles conspicnously displayed and with
daggers concealed IN their sleeves.
They then came out from their trenches,
threw their rifles down and announced
their intention of surrendering.
The Russians allowed them to enter
their trenches, preparatory to marching
them to the rear, when the Austrians
drew their daggers and threw them.
selves upon / their supposed captors,
There was fierce hand to hand fight
in the trenches, the Russians being
handicapped in not being able 10 use
their bayonets freely because Of the
cramPed fighting ground, but the Aus
trians were finally either dubbed or
stabbed to death or driven back to
their own lines. The Russians lost
heavily at first. No.. .."'. 3.s,
Russian aeroplanes dropped fifty
bombs yesterday on the railroad sta
tons at Zoucska and Czernowitz, in.
fiicting, it is believed appreciable dam
On italian Front .. IVA.
An official despatch from Rome re
ports a renewal of vigorous italian Of
fensives on the Austro-I Italian line. In
the Adamello zone, the Italians cap
tured one Austrian machine gun and
destroyed another by bombing, while al
Santos Waldo an Austrian trench wa,
charged and seventy -four men and tire,
officers taken prisoners. An Austrian
redoubt on Monte San Michele, at Cor
itz, was destroyed by the concentrated
fire of an Italian battery. " ,s.
At Prezzo and Chiese, Austrian hand
grenaders succeeded in setting ere u
| u ouiuhhHo NuC AtaAioi
lines, while in the Sperone sector, nea
Mirzlivrh, the Austrians SEIZED an,
held a portion of an Italian trench. II
3 the same region, the Austrians lost
: part of their line and finally had to re
:, tire to a new position. ~ a..asoE
Western Reports t-
On the western front, according 4
Berlin, successive waves Of French in
fantry assaulted the German position
d at Dead Man . hill, in the Vefdun dis
n triet. The report says that the charge
!, were broken down by the German FIR
t with heavy losses for the attacking side
9 The French who succeeded in reachin
y the German trenches were killed /
hand,to-hand fighting. r5l.13 95..
" The official French reports make n
It mention Of the Verdun counter attack
It but state that there have been bris
r artillery exchanges between French an
German positions in the VerdVh secto
but the Germans did not attempt an
infantry charges. Z -, +.