Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-02
SUCCESS CROWNS EFFORTS MADE
 BY ITALIANS
Heavy Fighting in Progress in Heights Where Enemy Had Entrenched Himself Firmly With Italians Gaining
cBv The Associated Press)

Success has apparently crowned the offensive of the Italians in the noun tains north of the Venetian plains.
 The attack Saturday has gained heights where the enemy was strongly entrenched and the fighting still IS go ing on Vienna admits retirement to prepared positions" which Is the expression used in official statements to mean that an enemy blow has gained important ground.
 After three days of struggling the Italians still are hammering hard at the most powerful and threatening positions of the enemy. They not only have gained ground, but have held 1t against desperate counter attacks by the ustro-Hungarians which were mown down by artillery fire and com pletely checked by the Italian infantry.
 Detail maps of the area in which the fighting is going on do not snow distinctly some of the places men, toned in the official statements. The Vienna admission that the new Aus trian line runs through "StemplC Wood" is therefore, without signifi- canoe, but as the positions held by the Austrians before the Italian at. tack began were above the foes line, | it would seem that the enemy has been busted from the higher ground he formerly held and thus placed at disadvantage in the fighting to come
 The Italian attack was seemingly planned with care. On the right flank of General Diaz's forces is the Brentl river, which affords protection against fianking attack. On the left there are two deep valleys which also lend themselves to the tactics adopted by the Italians.
 The British hospital ship Llandovery Castle, bound from a Canadian port for England, has been sunk seventy miles from land without warning by a submarine. So far only twenty-fouT of the 25S persons on board have been reported safe The fate of those miss ing is unknown.
 An official German statement claims that 191, ,454 unwounded allied prison CTS have been captured since March 21. Of these 94,939 were British S9,O99 were French and the rest were | Portugese, Belgians and Americans Six allied generals and 6,200 officers are said to have been taken by the Germans.
 In France there have been local at tacks at various points north of the Marne on the west side of the salient | driven into the allied lines by the Ger man offensive that was begun May 25 The French have advanced their line north of the Clignon river once more and have passed the railroad line run ming from Chesey to Vinly.
 Further north the French have taken strong positions along ridges tC the east of Villers Cotterets forest. ] There have been no unusual engage ments along the British or American | fronts, but there is a tenseness along the whole line from Ypres to Rheims and even to the east, along the French and American sectors there is expec tation that the breaking of the storH may come In front of Amiens thi: feeling is especially marked. There the Germans began a great lombard ment but have not yet sent thesr in | fantry into action.
 There was intense activity in aeria fighting on Sunday. The French have brought down or put out of actioT twenty-one German airplanes while tht British shot down twenty-two ant drove ten down out of control.