The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-08-28
Progress Toward Trieste Is
Steady and Many Guns and
Prisoners Are Taken While
Austrian Attempt To Divert
Proves Failure
FRENCH CONTINUE TO Il, .
POUND BEATEN TEUT0NS
Canadians Struggle BraveIy On
ward At Lens But Britons Re-
ceive Slight Check In Days
Fighting Along Flanders Front
Associated Press BY q, 8. Naval Com.
mnnication Servtce)

hAuAASNhAoh oSA NACOl
r ONDON, August 25-General
- Cordona's drive for Trieste
continues TO make steady head
way, every hour adding to the
Italian gains and TO the number
Of prisoners and guns captured.
The Austrians attempted to make
semblance of an offensive on the
Tyrolean front, to the west, evil
IDENTIFY with the hope Of creating
a diversion and bringing some
measure of relief to the beaten
troops defending Trieste, but in
every instance these attacks broke
down without dislodging any por-
ton of the Italian front. ....-...
MANY AIRPLANES USED
On the Isonzo the Italians
are employing large numbers of
airplanes, which, are rendering
signal service in opening the way
for the infantry, bombing the
Austrian defenses and spraying
the reserve lines with machine
gun bullets. 49, Fo@. =. ..:
Several strong positions have
been stormed by the Italians and
captured, while violent counter at
tacks by the Austrians have been
repulsed Gith heavy casualties
and the loss of many prisoners.
Sixty guns have been captured
in the recent offensive by the Ital-
ians, and much booty has also
been taken. 1922. ~.
SLIGHT CHECK RECEIVED
The British in Flanders, after
two weeks OF almost uninterrupt-
ed gains, received a check yester-
day and met with slight reverse.
On the Ypres-Menin road the
Germans made strong attack
with fresh troops, succeeding in
driving back the British outposts
and regainiug the advanced sec.
tion OF the ground wrested from
them by the British on Wednes-
day. Attempts by the Germans
to follow up this initial success
failed, but they still hold the posi-
tions taken in the first rush.
oanadians Fight On ..rt:
The battle for the possession of Lens
continues, with thb Canadians and
Bavarians in close grips. All night
and throughout yesterday the fighting
was kept up, reports from army head
quarters stating that the battle wa
of the bitterest descipti0n 1eithel
eide fiinching and both battling In
tensely, refusing to give ground whilt
life remained, The Canadians were
making progress last night, but slowly
More French Gains F
Although il was believed that the
Preach would be content for the time
with their successes of Thursday al
Verdun, the poilus again struck at the
defeated Germans yesterday, Wrestling
from them their last foothold on the
cd Verdun battlefront and driving
still further, taking all the positions il
front of Hill 304 for an average depth
Of n mile and quarter, thus making
I their hold on Hill 304 the more certain
Hard fighting all along this front con
tinues, with the Germans eounterinl
and losing heavily. without regaininl
any of their ground. The French tool
laTee number of prisoners and thii
number is being added to with every
German charge, -. * I@a,f IN
The French gains before Hill 304 in
elade the positions in the, Camard
Wood, where the Germans had con
s,sucfed several heavily fortified ma
cli~c pun redoubts. -; ..,.... .,
Since April 8 the number of TeutoH
prisoners, il was announced here to
A'v which had been captured on thu
British. French, Italian and Russian
frouts totaled l67,fSO officers and men