The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-08-26
One of Crandest Feats Of War
Is Capture of 2,5O0Foot
Height From Austrians
GERMANS HITTING BACK
BITTERLY IN FLANDERS
Heavily Reinforced Teuton
Army Responds to Kaiser .
Denunciation of English a.
Arch-Foes

London. Aug. 2s-'Breakiug
through" That ominous Expression
which holds the top-notch record Of
frivolous frequency in the dispatches
of enthusiastic war correspondents,
but which is used by war offices onlv
when the enemys line is actually cav
Ing in. Is found in the opening para
graph OF todays official Italian state
ment. =
The gallant troops OF the second
army" reported General Cadorna.
having broken through the line Of de-
fence al several paints are closely pur.
suing the enemy, who Is retiring and
DEFENDING the difficult ground yard by
yard"
Have Scored a Series of Victories.
Italy's nshting legions have within
one week scored a series OF Victories
that have sent their Hapsburg foe
Keeling backward along the whole
front from PLAYA to the Adriatic A
triumphant climax to the nrst phase
OF their drive they captured yesterday
the 2.245-foot high Monte santo, the
seven miles north OF the city.
Since yesterday" says the Rome
war office. .'the Tri-coior has been
flying on the summit OF Monte santo..s
French Again vfcsorious.
The French too were victorious
again in tho last twenty-four hours.
Pushing forward from Hill 500 CAP.
tured yesterday they made themselves
masters of three powerful, German
Held fortresses. They brought the to.
tai number Of prisoners taken since
Monday up to s.iof.
Nor were the British idle. Berlin
was forced to admit that the Teuton
r., .y'1 s,1rsn 5,-l7 y. ..xatasfs
the front astrfde the Ypres-Mentn
road. At the same time the dogxed
Canadians bit themselves further into
the outskirts of Lens. On both sides
Of the railway leading into the city.s
heart they ploushed ahead with bomb
and bayonet They snatched a trench
thousand yards from the railway
station Just within the city limits.
Things were not. however, all rosy
on the Angio-German front. Fired.
perhaps by the kaiser's speech a few
days ago. describing England as the
arch-enemy, who must be beaten by
the Teuton troops. amply reinforced.
are hitting back at the British with
embittered violence. They succeeded
in retaking 1verness copse and thus
bending the British right back some-
what while they also recaptured GIL.
lemont farm to the south OF vendhuille.
Late this evening word came from
the front Of an incipient battle In tho
sector where the French and British
Silent Az to Riga Operations.
Both Petrograd and Berlin were 81.
lent on the new German offensive IN
the north aimed at RIGA At latest
accounts Prince Leopold's picked Ba.
varian troops had reached the river
"A, near the Baltic coast. thus menae.
ing the Russian port from a distances
OF little more than twenty miles from
the west. Russian military critics. hcr-
ever, believe that when the thrust Ii
undertaken will come again from the
south At one point below Kekkan.
the Germans are only seven and one.
half miles from Riga
In the forefront Of All war news
stood again the italian offensive to.
dsy. The brief official statements front
Rome were supplemented by i1luminats
ing unofficial dispatches. some OF Them
from Austrian sources.
Earth-shahfng Drum Fire.
30 e&rth-shaking - the italian drum
fires that ushers n very new attack.
Bern. It Is literally hammering down
the Austro- Hungarian morale. Select
| Austrian soldiers IN the front lire
| trenches who yesterday grinned den.
ance across the parapets waiting with
gallant calm. italian onrush are today
writhing in fever. babbiing idiots. The
| roar Of 5000 guns on a fifty -mils front
them h~-~.. S-sv~n insane before the
! FIRST enemy had shown his head over
the psrapets ran Hike dump animals
trapped In fire across the shell swept
open ground right into the volcano
whence this stream of hot metal Issued.
The correspondent OF the Koelnischs
Zeftung asserts that the Italians are
skilfuliy using naval guns placed AZ
the mouth Of the Isonso. sweeping the
Austrian rositions as far as and even
beyond Dunno Miramar. less than two
miles from the coveted Trieste and
Nabresina. Adding to the panic that
the concentrated italian fre II spread-
ing in the Austrian ranks 10 the part
played by the italian fiiers. No few1p
than ass airplanes participated IN tho
latest battle. Only one failed to 70
turn. Flying low this army Of the alF
sent myriad Of machine sun bullets
into the massed Austrian lines await.
ing tho italian infantry attacks. The
capture Of Monte 6anto. for ppspessl0n
Of which rivers Of blood have dewe&E
particularly last ApSil when the ItAts
ians failed IN thsir ons1Au9hte o. TIT
ri