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ITALIANS MAKE STAND AGAINST TEUTONS
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Italy's armies are making a heroic and so far successful stand against the Austro German masses thrown against them In desperate attacks along the line of the Piave river. and in the mountainous region from the Piave westward to the edge of the Trentino district. The river line has not been preached at any point, while the thrust of the Austrian southward from the Hills in an attempt to drive a wedge through to the plains behind the Piave line is making slow pro- gress.
 It is now more than a week since the Italians, retreating from the Taglba- mento, crossed to the west bank of the Piave and took up their defenselve positions behind it. The German totn- mand lost no time in attempting to force passage of the stream, and the enemy efforts were pressed on a scale of increasing density during all last week.
 The Italian resistance however seems to be growing stronger rather than otherwise. The latest Austro- German attempts to gain a permanent hold on the westerly side of the Piave were not only brilliantly frustrated but the enemy columns were badly cut up and nearly one thousand Teutons were taken prisoner.
 These attacks ontthe river line were delivered just above the Senson Loup, where the invaders first effected a crossing and were hemmed in from the start. They are steadily being driven here into an increasingly re- stricted zone. the Rome war office now announces. Near the Adriatic the h. ta advance toward Venice, raised by the opening of the flood gates into the swampy region, is being reinforced by the work of the army artillery and the guns of Italian warshipS on the Adri- atic
 The Italian line has yielded slightly in the hills east of the Brenta where the capture of Monte Prassolan by Austro- Hungarian troops is an- nounced by Berlin. No further ad- vances for the attacking forces in the mountain region northeast of Asiago are claimed.
 Military operations in the other war theatres were on a comparatively small scale. The most important move was made in Flanders by the British who pushed further north on the Goeberg spur, northwest of Passchendaele, cap- turing a strongly fortified redoubt known as Vocation farm and so inn proving their positions in this sector as to mako the present llnt, acIuss Pas scheudaele ridge easier to hold
 In Palestine the British forces which recently have made so spectacu- lar an advance up the Mediterranean coast to the neighborhood of Jaffa are still moving forward. but apparently feeling their way with some caution. hn trix oiO of alr}r stand a few miles north of Jaffa, where they are reported attempting to prepare an entrenched position.
 In the sector of the French front held by the American troops there has been increased activity by the artillery, in cidental to which there had been ad- ditions to the American casualty list. some of which occurred when a Ger man shell hit an American gun. The American batteries have been ener- getic in their reply, giving the Ger mans better than they sent, in the opinion of observers.
 On the naval side of the war there is an interesting development in the operating in Helgoland Eight encoun- tered and engaged German light cruis- CTS on Saturday morning. The British admiralty reported, in an early state ment that the Germans made off at high speed with the British vessels in pursuit.
 From Russia the latest dispatches re- port Premier Kerensly in flight, his whereabouts unknown in Petrograd, after having been defeated by Bolshe- wiki and deserted by the greater part of his own officers and men, One re- port attributes the premier's defeat to the intervention of Lettish forces &C., 900 strong, on the side of the Bolshe- wiki. The Bolsheviki are also appar- ently in control of Moscow, where the provisional governments forces are reported to have been penned within the Kremlin under artillery lombard ment. Unconfirned reports say the bombardment was followed by the ar engagement of truce between the