New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-08
Austrian Counter Thrusts
Checked Only at
Heavy Cost
Trieste Defences
Reported Safe
Cadorna Withdraws Army
on Carso, but Clings
to Jamiano
THE DAYS DEVELOPMENTS

British. after mine explosions heard
across Channel, attack on nine mile front IN
Belgium. storm acknowledgement ridge
and several villages. penetrate German ad
vance and rear defences tor two and halt
miles and wipe out "Wyt.chaete bend.
More than 5000 prisoners and many guns re-
ported captured.
Germans win French trenches over mile
and a quarter from on Chemln -des-Dames
and take over 500 prisoners. 1900
Auslrlans report capture OF IOOOO
Italians on southern Carso IN three days,
bringing total captures during Cadornas drive
to 1900. Italians declare enemy repulsed
and minimize his success before Mount
Hermada.
Quiet on East front
London, June apparently the VIC
lent Austrian counter offensive in the
Carso has been checked, but only after
heavy sacrifices by the Italians.
Vienna announces that more than
10 900 prisoners have been taken within
three days, bringing the total to $1,000
since May ~ and indicating that the
Austrians have captured several thou
sand more men than they lost during
the entire period of Cadorna's drive.
The official bulletin from Rome de-
clares that after days battle the
onemy was repulsed on the Carso and
discloses that the Italian line still
stands to the east of Jamiano. Dis
patches from Udine, however, state
that Cadorna's front in this sector has
been withdrawn beyond the range OF
the guns on Mount Hermada. This is a
practical confession that the Austrian
counter thrust has succeeded. as Mount
Hermada. the bastion of the hostile left
flank. blocked the road to Trieste along
the coast lnd was the immediate obJec-
tive of the Italian advance.
To-day's communique from Rome also
reports the repulse OF an Austrian as
sault in force along the BaOhre Valley,
in the Trentino. 1t is only through the
Trentino that there is any danger of an
invasion of Italy. and the Austrian di-
version begun there in the early phases
of the Italian offensive failed promptly
However, now that the Italians have
suffered a serious reverse on the Carso,
which must have considerably disturbed
their plans, it may be the Austrian
plan to strike again along the northern
frontier.
Accounts of the battle on the south
ern Carso, as issued from the two cap
itals, are extremely contradictory, but
it is clear that Italy has lost some OF
the fruits of her first success. How
ever. as long as Cadorna holds Jamiano
and the trenches running northeast
ward TO Castagnavizza, the potential
menace 10 the Austrian left flank re-
mains. North and east of Gorilla, IN
the mountainous territory within the
Isonzo bend, the Italian gains seem
secure.
The Italians minimize the Austrian
success. Their explanation is that the
enemy high command, after the failure
of repeated efforts to retake lost posi-
tions in the Vodce, made a supreme
effort on the left wing, where every
Italian gain constitutes double threaI
on Laibach and Trieste. The fall OF
Laibach, on the eastern edge OF the
great Istraian plateau, would actually
omen the way for an advance on Vienna.
Nevertheless. say the Italian experts,
\thp Austrian counter offensive failed
again. in that Cadorna's line was only
withdrawn slightly in the centre, while
il was extended between Castagnavizza
and Voicizza. the tract dominating the
Brestovizza road, and thus threatening
tho Notifications of Hermada from the
north. They assert that the strategic
situation is practically unchanged.
The Austrians, on the other hand. lay
stress on the number of prisoners
taken. which is unusually large for a
localized counter thrust The fact that