Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-08
ITALIAN PRESSURE
BY CAD0RNA'S MEN
SHOWS NO LET-UP
Pressing Home Their At
tacks, Despite Desper-
ate Resistance.
FIGHTING FOR POSITIONS
NORTHEAST OF GORIZiA
Although Suffering Heavily, Aus
TRANS Are Battling Tenaci-
ously to Hold Heights.
GROUND HEApED WITH DEAD
German Advance in Force Against
Russians East of Riga Ap-
parently Slackens.
FIGHTING FOR POSITIONS s.
NORTHEAST OF GORIZfA
HEAPED WITH DEAD
German Advance in Force Against
Russians East Of Riga Ap-
parently Slackens.
IBy Associated Press. !

Heavy fighting for the possession OF
Monte San Gabrielle and other impor.
tant positions northeast of Gorizia
still is in progress. but the Italians
are pressing home their attacks de-
spite desperate resistance.
Although suffering heavy losses. the
Austrians are battling tenaciously for
the height positions. General Cadorna,s
latest report says that the Italian
pressure Is continuing decisively. Tho
Italians have added 200 moro to the
number OF prisoners taken in tho
fighting here.
On the Carso and in the region OF
the Hermada the Austrans have
stopped their unsuccessful attacks, but
the artillery battle RACES incessantIy,
making the whole region an inferno.
Only local infantry actions for tho
purpose OF Strengthening out their
lines have beon carried out by the
Italians.
In their present drive the Italians
have already taken 10000 prisoners,
and the total losses OF the Austrians
are estimated at 100000 Northeast
Of Gorizia the Austrlans have been on
tho defensive. On the Carso, espe-
cially in tho region OF the Hermada,
their offensive efforts have failed with
great losses. The ground over which
the Austrians charged this week In an
effort to keep the Italians from I'D
vancfnE further toward Trieste lis
heaped with dead. 49,
GERMAN CAVALRY ENGAGED
WITH RUSSIAN REAR GUAEDs
German cavalry has been engaged
with Russian rear guards ut Zegeyold,
forty miles east Of Riga, but appar-
ently the German advance in force has
slackeaed. Around Freidrichstadt,
about fifty miles southeast Of Riga ON
the Dvina River. tho retiring Russians
have set fire to several villages.
There has been no infantry activity
on large scale on the western front.
North Of Frezenberg. in the Ypres re-
gion, the British have been compelled
to withdraw from the positions occu-
pied on Thursday. Around Lens the
Canadians have been engaged In hard
fighting with the Germans On a part
OF tho sector west Of Lens. German
countarattacks resulted In gains. but
on tho southern end Of the sector tho
Canadians held and extended theft sno-
sitions. The Canadian front here now
is serious menace to the German
positions. along the souchez River.
On the French front there was no
infantry activity Friday. Along the
Aisne. in Champagne. and on both
banks of the Meuse. the opposing ar
tilleries continue active.
German bombs dropped on military
hospitals have caused the death OF
one officer OF tho medical corps of tho
American army. German airmen last
Tuesday bombed a group of British
American hospitals on the French
coast. Ono officer OF the American
medical corps was killed and three
officers were wounded severely by
bombs dropped on Harvard hospital
Five Americans were among the six
teen other persons injured. One man
was wounded by bomb which fell
on the hospital of the ST. Louis unit.