The Monte Vista journal., 1916-08-19
LIE m B U RIG DEFENSE IS cou
TRACING AS SLAVs PUSH
WEST.
SINK BRITISH WARSHIP
ITALIANS GAIN AT CARso p,,
TEAU, AND TURKS WIN IN
PERSIAN BATTLE.
Western Newspaper Union News seryIc.

western Newspaper Union News Service
Petrograd, Aug. 16.-The Russian,
have captured Jablonitza, one of tbe
most important gateways through tbo
Carpathians to the Hungarian Dlains
and have taken nearly 1,5OO additional
prisoners, according to an official
statement issued by the war Office
Paris.-1talian troops have entered
the suburbs of Tolmino which is nm
der continuous shell fire, ACCORDING
to a dispatch to La Liberte from Tn
rim. The Austrians. says the dispatch
are evacuating the city
Berlin.-After attacks of the great
est violence on the Somme front ths
British obtained footing in first line
German trenches on the Thiepvalpo
zieres front, the war office announced
"The Emperor has again left for
the eastern 'front.'" says an official
statement issued at Berlin, "after hav
ing visited, toward the end of his stay
of several days on the western front
the army of the crown prince and, &C
companied by the commander-in-chier
various units behind the battle 'front.'
London.-The Austrians and Ger
mans in Galicia are still falling back
before the advance Of the Russians
who, according to Petrograd, have
made additional gains along the Ser
eth and Zlota-Lipa rivers and have
captured the strongly-fortified town Of
Tustobaby, northwest of the Dniester
On the upper Sereth, however, the
Teutonic allies at some points on
their newly-chosen line are holding
back the Russians with vigorous ar.
tillery fire. Berlin says that south OF
Brody, on the Lub and Graberka
sector, Russian attacks were put
down with heavy losses.
Other reports Monday state that the
Italians advanced materially in the
Osonzo front; that the Turks re-
pulsed Slav troops in Persia but in
1 VI hiSu al lliCild thS ltuooitho iOiSNN
back the Ottoman troops near Lake
Van, and that the British torpedo
boat destroyer Lassoo was sunk by
German submarine.
London - Hard fighting in the
Somme region of France, in Gallca
and in the Italian theater, with fur
ther gains for the entente allies IN
all three regions, marked the opera
tions of Saturday night and Sunday
Northwest of Pozieres, north of the
Somme, the British made an advance
of from 800 to 400 yards over front
of nearly mile against the Germans
and also captured trenches on the
plateau northwest of Bazentln'Le,
Petit, while the French southeast VI
Maurepas gained a further footholu
on the slopes of Hill 109.
Between Thiepval and the Sollilne
on Saturday night, according 10 nei
lin, assaults by the entente all'e'
broke down, with heavy casualties !"
the attackers. The fighting near Hen
and Maurepas continued Throughout
the night and into Sunday, the lno"
repeatedly coming to grips in hahu''V
hand encounters.
Mariampol, in Galicia, seven lll.to'
southeast of Halicz, the town OF fV1
giacy and several villages along wv
upper Sereth river have fallen ln'O
the hands of the Russians.
On the Bystritza sector and noa'
Monasterzyska, however BerIlh 0".r
the Russians have been thrown O''D
at several places by the counter
tacks of the Teutonic allies.