Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-08-28
Austrian Loss 100000
With $4,000 Prisoners
Cadorna's Great Offensive Continues SuccessfulyHave
Cut Communications Of Enemy and Soldiers
Of Dual Empire Without Food.
The Italians RepIenish Their
Troops With Supplies Cap
tured From Austrians.

With the dominating height OF
Monte Santo, $3.50 feet high, securely
in their possession the Italians are
continuing their drive of the Austrians
over the Bainsizza plateau, notwith-
standing the violent resistance the
enemy is offering with infantry, ma
chine guns and light artillery.
Here and also on the Carso front in
proximity to the sea, where the battle
again has assumed terrific proportions
after Saturdays slight lull, the Italian
air men are still lending wonderful
aid to General Cadorna's forces,
dropping bombs or using their ma
chine guns with telling effect on
troop concentrations behind the line.
Dailyth number of prisoners taken
by the Italians both officers and men
lis mounting, the latest report show
ing that 600 officers and $4,000 men
have definitely been. rendered nom.
combatants for the remainder Of the
war. The total Austrian loss is esti-
mated at 100000. In addition the
capture of war stores by the Italians
has been enormous, including guns
of all calibers and arms, ammunition,
horses and motor tractors. From the
supply depots abandoned by the
ienemy in his fight the Italians, now
are enabled to replenish their troops
fighting in the difficult country.
FRENCH GAIN ON MEUSE.
On both sides of the River Mouse.
in the Verdun sector the French.
troops continue their gain against the
forces of the German crown prince
on the right bank having captured
positions over front of two and
half miles to depth of two-thirds of
a mile, taking the Fosses and Beau
mont wood and reaching the environs
of the village of Beaumont ON the left
bank having driven their advanced,
positions to the outskirts of Bethin-
court and along the banks of the
FORCES rivulet. The Germans in
counter-attacks twice have endeavor-I
ed to retrieve lost ground on the;
heights of the Mouse but each time
met with repulse and heavy losses.
Aside from artillery duels, which
have been especially severe east of
Ypres and in the neighborhOOd of
Lombaertzyde, there has been little
activity on that part of the line in
France and Belgium held by the Brit
ish. Field Marshal Haig's men, how
ever, have carried out several small
trench raiding enterprises with sue
cess and repulsed German counter
attacks.
ADVANCE ON RIGA STOPPED
Evidently the German advance to-
ward Riga, Russia'S big port and
naval base ON the Baltic has ceased,
for neither the German nor Russian
official communications mention the
operations in this region.
To the south, however, the Russian
and Russo Rumanian armies, respec-
lively around Vladimir-Volynsh and |
in the Rumanian theater are keeping
up their strong resistance against the
Germans and the Austrians and Ger
mans. Near Vladimir-Volynski Ger
man attacks have been repulsed,
while on the Rumanian front attempts
by the Teutonic allies to advance again
have been frustrated.
AT Moscow has begun the extraor-
binary council upon which,the fate Of
Russia as factor in the gar probably |
depends. Premier Kerenslsy and 9TH
er members Of the. government are
lin. attendance. M. Kerensly m his