The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-05-28
ITALIANS At
0UTPOSTS Of
BIC NAVAL BASE
Fight Way Forward Within Two
Miles Of Dunno, Natural Bar. "
rier to Triest -.
TWO MORE SPANISH
SHIPS SUNK BY TEUTONs
Only Question of Hours When
Brazil Will Enter War With
the Eleven Allies
(By Associated Press.)

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(By Associated Press,)
The Italians have fought their way
forward to within two miles of DuinO,
the most formidable and natural bar
rier between them and Triest, and the
great battle now enters the eighteenth
day without any signs of an abate-
ment in the fury of the struggle.
Vienna stubbornly refuses to concede
the Italian victory but the Admiralty
tells the story of General Cadorna's
steady advance.
DulnO marks a point at which the
Carso plateau almost touches the sea.
Protected by the ocean on the one
side it is powerfully defended by Mt.
Querceto. At the foot of this noun
tain, facing west, lies the little town
of Medeassa, and the Italians have
smashed their way to within few
hundred yards of this village.
Smashing the Austrian lines on the
Carso plateau and north of Gorizia,
the Italians have made additional and
important gains, besides capturing
more than 1900 prisoners and II
guns. @.
In an assault between Jamian0. and
the coast. the Italians carried a;str0ng-
ly fortified hill southwest, of Mede-
assa, less than two miles north Of
terry of 10 guns and 812 Austrians
were captured by the Italians The
capture of Medeassa will be an i'm
portant step toward the investment Of
Duino, with strong natural positions.
! Heavy Firing '."'
Near PLAYA, Cadofla's Alen ear.
ried by storm the heights Ut The
head Of the PalilOua vslley. BY ~
this they connected their lines Oh
Mount Cu0ccO to Mount Falcone.
Four hundred prisoners were cap.
tured In this sector. Around GOrl-
zia there was heavy artillery dr. '''
ing. At Castagnavlxza, s0uth% Sf ~
GOrixia, the Italians were checked
In an attempt to take the town 5F'''
1 On the front in france there, thHesr1e, has ii,
| been a recrudescence of infantry ac-
! tivity, but not on a large scale. The
British made gains in local attacks
northwest of St. Quentin and near
Fontaine-Lez -CrOisilles, on the south
ern end of the Arras battlefield, and
repulsed German attack east OF Loos.
north of Arras. n
Three Attacks d.
On the Aisne and Champagne fronts
both the Germans and French have
been active. Around Teton, In Cham
payne, the German crown prince made
three attacks and succeeded in pene-
trating the French lines. A counter
okt 10 nj hx, Dnfo in'u
however, forced the Germans to retire
again to their own lines. North of
the Aisne, the Germans were repulsed
in an attack against the Laffaux mill.
Berlin reports five French attacks were
made near Vaux Aillon.
Spanish Steamers Sink
Two more Spanish steamers
have been sunk with the loss of
probably 100 lives. The largest
vessel was the mail steamer G.
Deizaguirre, 1000 tons, and the
statement reports % of the 40 pas.
sengers and crew Of 60 landed.
The other steamer was the BegOna
Of 2,SOO tons. The manner In
which tho steamers were sunk has
not been made public.
Brazil to be Next
Dispatches from Brazil indicate 1t
is merely question of days before
the Brazilian parliament allies Brazil
with the eleven nations now fighting
the Central Powers At the same
time, new crisis threatens between
Spain and Germany, because of the
sinking of vessel with heavy loss
of life. ...t
The battle between the reactionaries
forward and there are reports of fur
thcr impending ministerial resigna-
tiOns in Vienna and Budapest.
German troops made another futile
effort during the night to regain q
footing on the CheminDes-Dame in
the vicinity of the Moulin -De-Laffaux,
the loss of which they feel acutely.
The French, however, bit into the posi-
tion so hard that the Germans were
unable to shake them off anywhere.
French Make Steady Gains
All along from the MOulin-D -De-Laf-
faux past Hurtebise Farm to Craonne,
which the the three most prominent
positions on the Chemin-Des Danes,
the artillery in both camps thundered
throughout the night. The correspon-
dent watched the bombardment from
a high spot from whence he could look
over the entire crest. Everywhere,
the French occupy the crest Of the
plateau and continually make further
small advances and maintain their
pressure.
Territory Taken Is Valuable
The amount of territory gained In
these minor actions which are always
minutely prepared and generally, sue
cessful appears small when looking
at the map, but the tactical strategic
advantages cannot be estimated on
that basis. The real definite results
of the present fighting may first be-
come apparent weeks afterward. What
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