Arizona republican., 1918-06-17
WAR SUMMARY
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 l' The Italian and allied srmies are bravely sustaining the weight of the Austrian forces which are attacking along the front of the Italian theater from the northwest of Asiago plateau eastward to the Piave river and thence along that stream to where it joins the headwaters of the Adriatic sea, front of nearly 100 miles. The Aus trians having made extensive prepara tions for the drive by bringing up strong endorsements in men and guns, many of them coming from the former battle line in Rumania and Galicia as a result of the debacle in the east, is us- ing them without stint in the effort to debouch from the mountain passes and cross the Piave river and gain the Venetian plains.
 Captured Front Line Everywhere the fighting is of an ex- tremely sangunary character, espec- | ially east of the Asiago plateau in the Brenta valley and on Monte Grappa. In the initial struggle the enemy sue | ceeded in capturing several front line positions in the mountain region from the British and also crossing the Piave. | Counter attacks, however. have re- stored all the positions in the noun tains, including territory to a depth of | l 000 yards along a 2.500 yard front captured from the British. At last ac- | counts the allied troops everywhere were strongly holding the enemy and | King Emmanuel's men were gallantly ! striving to throw back the invaders acrossN the Piave. The Italians have taken more than 5000 Austrians pris- oners,, among them S9 officers. Vienna Says But Little
 As yet the Vienna war office has given only brief mention to the battle. saying that the Austrian armies had invaded the Sette Comuni plateau ly- ing at an altitude of 3.400 feet north west of Asiago, and that up to noon | Sunday more than ten thousand Ital- ian, English and French soldiers and a considerable number of guns had been captured.
 With the commencement of the long expected Austrian offensive the fight ing in France has simmered down all most to sub-nornal. except southwest of Sossons, where the French have delivered several violent attacks against the Germans holding territory captured last week. Where the enemy a week ago was throwing thousands upon thousands of men against the al lieu lines DttWttH hOutululci anu Noyon, Sunday saw him worn out with his useless efforts and his forces sadly depleted through men killed and wounded, unwilling or unable further to give battle.
 Americans Retake Town
 In the famous St. Michel sector where the Americans took over their first sector of the battle front, the Ger mans have delivered stroke and were rewarded by being able to gain the will lage. Soon afterward, however, they were expelled and the village retaken.
 Probably having in mind President Wilson's promise that the war should not end until the wrong done Alsaee- Lorraine has been righted, the Ameri- cans now occupying sectors in the picturesque locality of Alsace are cor dialIy welcomed by the natives there since May 21, and possibly sensing the importance of the move. both from tho strategic anI moral standpoint, the Germans already have delivered an at. tack against them. The American casualties were light.
 In Macedonia the operations daily increase in importance. Along the greater part of the front there have been heavy reciprocal bombardments and Bulgarian troops several times have endeavored to penetrate the al- lied lines.
 Met With III Success
 Their efforts, however. met with i'll success.
 That enemy submarines still are at work in the north Atlantic waters ad- jacent to the American coast is shown by the fact that another vessel. the Norwegian bark Samoa. was sunk 90 miles off the Virginia coast last Friday. The crew was saved.