Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-17
BRITISH REGAIN
POSITIONS LOST
. IN FIRST STAGE
Vienna War Office Reports
Capture of 10000 AL E:s VS..
lied Soldiers.
FIGHTING IN FRANCE :..
ALMOST SUBN0RMAL
Germans Deliver Attacks on
Americans in St. Mihiel and
| Alsace Sectors.
OPERATIONS IN MACEDONIA
Right Bank Of Piave River Reached
by Enemy Forces In 80
Italy. 49,, .s.,.;>
Right Bank Of Piave River Reached
by Enemy Forces TN .s,ss
Italy. ..s.,.;>
IBy Associated Press. ]

The Italian and allied armies. are
bravcly sustaining the weight OF the
Austrian forces which are attacking
along the front OF the Italian theater
from the northwest Of the Asiago
plateau eastward to the Piave River
and thence along that stream to where
it joins the headwaters of the Adriatia
Sea. front OF nearly 100 miles.
The Austrians. having made extern
sive preparations for the drive by
bringing up strong re-enforcements in
men and guns. many Of them coming
from the former battle line in Rou-
mania and Galicia. as a result OF the
debacle in the east, are using them
without stint In the effort to debouch
from the mountain passes and cross
the Piave River and gain tho Venetian
plains. Everywhere the fighting la OF
an extremely sangunary character.
especially east OF the Asiago plateau.
in the Brenta Valley and on Monte
Grappa. In tho initial struggle tho
enemy succeeded In capturing several,
front-line positions in the mountain
region from the British and aIso, In
crossing the Piave. Counterattatks,
however. have restored all the posi-
tons in the mountains. including ter
y
2.500-yard front captured from the
British. At last accounts the allied
troops everywhere were strongly hold
ing the enemy. and King Victor
Emmanuers men were gallantly strtv-
ing tc throw back the invaders across
the Piave. The Italians have taken
more than 5000 Austrians prisoner,
among them eighty-nine officers.
AS yet the Vienna War Office has
given only brief mention OF the battle,
saying that the Austrian armies hhd
invaded the Settle Comuni plateau, lying
at ar altitude OF 3.400 feet, northwest
OF Asiago. and that up to noon sun
day more than 10000 italian. English
and French soldiers and a considerable
number OF guns had been captured,
With the commencement of the long
expected Austrian offensive tho fight
ing in France has simmered down al.
most TO subnormal except southwest
Of scissors. where the French have
delivered several violent attacks
against the Germans holding territory
captured last week. Where tho enemy
week ago was throwing thousands
upon thousands OF men against he
allied lines between Montdidier and
Noyon, Sunday saw him worn out with
his useless efforts. and his forces sadly
dcpletely through men killed and
wounded. unwilling or unable furthsr
to give battle.
In the famous st. Mihiel sector,
where tho Americans took over ,thcir
first sector OF the battle front, the
Germans have delivered n stroke, and
were rewarded by being able to gala
the village. Soon afterward. however,
they were expelled and the position
rcgained. Prisoners were taken from
the Germans. who. in their anger,
throughout Sunday "strafed" villages
In the rear with their artillery.
GERMANS HARAss
AMERICANS IN ALsAGFs
Probably having In mind President
Wilson's promise that the war should
not be ended until the wrongs Of
Aisace-Lorraine shall be rignted. forces
'f American troops now are occupy.
ing sectors IN the picturesque terri
tory OF Alsace. They have been there
since May 81. and, possibly sensing the
Importance OF the movement, both from
tho strategic and moral standpoint,
Germans already have delivered an
attack against them. Tho American
casualties were light.
In Macedonia. the operations daily
increase in Importance Along tho
greater part of the front there have
been heavy reciprocal bombardments
and Bulgarian troops several times
have endeavored to penetrate the al
lied lines. All their efforts. however,
met with Ill success
That enemy submarines still are "a.
work in the North Atlantic waters, ad,
10
by the fact that another vessel, the
Norwegian bark Samoa. was sunk
ninety miles of tho Virginia coast last
Friday. The crew was saved. ~.
An American observation balloonywa
shot down Sunday morning by a she'll
from German gun. There were no
casualties as result OF the incident,
AMERICAN MACHINE GUNNERs
REPULSE GERMAN ATTACK
(By Associated PreSs1 srss