The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-29
Vienna Statement Admits Evacuation of Monte SanO
 Without Offering Battle
AUSTRIANS MAKING
 VIOLENT COUNTERS TO REGAIN LOST GROUND
Rome Reports These Are Absolutely Without Sue Russians Continue
 to Retreat in East

With the British Army ill France and Beligum, August 28.- The British attack late yesterday southwest of Lange- marck astride the St. Julien Pocapelle road has developed into a success, notwithstand- ing the almost impossible weather conditions under which the troops made the as- sault. A number of strong German redoubts were occu- pied and the line was pushed forward to a considerable dis tance over a front of some 20On yards.
 The offensive was launched at o'clock in the afternoon amid heavy rain, which added to the freshets of the already swollen Steenbeke and Hannebeke rivers, which had turned the surrounding country into bogs. Into this marsh land, studded with
 concrete machine gun redoubts, the
 British plunged after the artillery had conducted heavy bombardment and laid down barrage. Particularly vicious fighting developed near the Springfield and Vancouver farms, two German strongholds northeast of St. Julien.
 Notwithstanding the heavy machine gun fire, the British pushed forward here, driving back the Wurttemburgers, who had been gent up from Roulers to hold the German advanced posts. Today the battle along the section att tackled yesterday had subsided into a state of comparative calm. A great storm, accompanied by rain, was sweeping the country. At times the gale reached a ve- locity which uprooted trees at many places.
 New York. August 2S.-The Associated Press sums up the news from all war fronts as follows:
 The fighting fronts. except in the Aus tro-Italian theatre and In eastern Bulo- wina and southern Moldavia, show a re- markable abatement in the violence of the fighting that has been going on for several weeks
 Along the front in Flanders and north- ern France held by the British, bad weather again has set in and aside from reciprocal bombardments, which at some ,aH he r,f fire, and minor infantry operations on the part of the British, little is being done by either of the belligerents. vERDUN SECTOR In the verdun sector the Germans have ceased entirely their counter attacks against the newly won French positions, evidently having found that the task of trying to rehabiltate themselves was useless. The infantry of both sides have remained in their trenches and only on the western bank of the Mouse has there been even artillery activity.
 ITALIAN FRONT On the Bainsizza plateau, north of Co., rizia the Italians and Austrians are still engaged in furious battle, with the Ital- ians the aggressors, but with the Aus trians strongly on the defense. New po- sitions have been won by General Ca- dorna's forces and heavy Austrian at- tacks to retrieve lost ground have been successfully repulsed Silence is still maintained by the Rome war office con- cerning the operations on the Carso plateau. An Austrian official communi- cation dated Sunday, the first received from Vienna for several days, acknowl- edges the capture by the Italians of Monte Santo. but says the position was
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