Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-25
Austrian Forces on Isonzo and Carso Fronts Suffer From Cadorna's Ofensive-Many Prisoners Are Captured
(By Review Leased Wlre).

( ENERAL CADORNA'S army still is hard after the Austrians all u along the Isonzo and Carso
 fronts and. aided by the valiant Italian airmen, who are dropping bombs in great numbers on concentra- tions behind the enemy lines, it has made further progress and taken addi tional prisoners and war stores.
 ao,0oo Men Taken.
 Already 800 Austrian officers and 10000 men have been made prisoners and in the neighborhood of sixty guns of various calibres have been captm- ed, in addition to numerous others de- stIoyed by the gun-fire of the Italians.
 On several sectors to the west the enemy has made semblances of often sives, probably hoping to distract the attention of the Italian commander-in- chief from the work he now has in hand. But seemingly there is little likelihood he is to be diverted from pressing on toward his objective Triest
 French Still Active.
 Although it had been believed the French would rest content with the gains they had made against the Ger mans in the region of Verdun, Friday saw them again hit the line of the German crown prince and capture the famous Hill 304, the scene of some of the bloodiesA conflicts of the war, the Camarg wood and fortified works be- tween the Harcourt wood and Bethi1- court The penetration of the German front was at an average depth of one and a quarter~niles.
 Fighting Near Ypres.
 Hard fighting continues between the British and Germans around Loos and Ypres The Canadians have captured trenches at Loos on the monster slag heap known as the Grassier, after the hardest kind of fighting.
 Near Ypres, Field Marshal Haig's forces have met with a slight reverse at the hands of Crown Prince Rupert's army. having been compelled to yield ground captured last Wednesday along the Ypres-Menin road, in the face of extrefnely violent attacks car ried out by fresh reserves. The bat u continus in this rgion.
 Say Tanks Destroyed.
 Berlin asserts that in the recent British offensive 21 tanks" were de stroyed by the German guns and now are lying in front of the opposing pos itions in No Mans land. Some of the crews of the monsters were made prisoners, while others were killed.
 Details Measer.
 Details of the German offensive in Northern Russia, to the west of Riga are still meager, but the German war office announces that the German troops have reached the vicinity of the Aa river along the Gulf of Riga. Petrograd dismisses the hostilities in this sector with the announcement that only fusillades have taken place.
 Rumanians stiffeninq.
 In Rumania a stiffening in the Rus so-Rumanian front is observed in the failure of the Austro-Germans to make further gains. Attacks delivered at several points have been checked by the Russo-Rumanians.
 Since April g. the entente allies have made prisoners of 167, ,7S0 men of enemy armies.
 Many Prisoners.
 LONDON, Aug. 24.-The British. French, Italians and Russians have captured 167,780 war prisoners since April g, when the 1917 campaign op- ened, according to a statement issued by the British war department this evening.
 The text of the statement follows:
 The number of prisoners captured by the entente allies since April g, when the 1917 campaign opened with the battle of Arras. up to August 22 is: German war prisoners captured by British. 46,155; German war prisoners captured by French. 43,723; chiefly Austrian war prisoners captured by Italians, 4O,6S1; chiefly Austrians cap tured by Russians, 97.221. Total. 167,7SO
 The total number of German war prisoners captured by us since the be- ginning of the war is 102,21S.
 ''The total number of British pris- oners, including Indians, captured by the Germans. is approximately 45,OOO, but exaG information as to small cap lures made by the enemy in recen: fighting cannot be given until the necessary information is received from Germany.
 ''The total number of prisoners lost by us since the beginning of the war, exclusive of African natives, but in cluding Indians, is approximately 56,500."