The Little River news. (Ashdown, Little River County, Ark.) 1897-current, 1918-06-19
BElNu GENERALLY HELD
yienaa Claims 10000 Prisoners and
Capture of Ground-Enemy Crosses
Pave, but British Virtually
Restore all Positions.

The Italian and allied armies are
'bravely sustaining the weight OF the
Austrian forces which are attacking
along the front of the Italian theater
from northwest of the Asiago Plateau
to east of the Piave river and thence
along that stream to where 1t joins
the head waters of the Adriatic sea-
a front of nearly 100 miles.
The Austrians having made extern
sive preparation for the drive by
bringing up strong achievements in
men and guns, many of them coming
! from the former battle line in Ru-
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 Pave river and gain the Venetian
plains.
Everywhere the fighting is OF an
extremely sanguinary character, espe-
cially east of the Asiago plateau in
the Brenta valley and on Monte Crap
pa. In the initial struggle the enemy
succeeded in capturing several front
line positions in the mountain region
from the British and also in crossing
the Pave Counter-attacks, however.
have restored all the positions in the
mountains, including territory to q
depth of 1000 yards along $500
yard front captured from the British.
At last accounts the allied troops
everywhere were strongly holding the
enemy and Victor Emmanuels men
were CALAMITY striving to throw back
the invaders across the Piave. The
| Italians have taken more than 5000
Austrians prisoners, among them SO
officers
Vienna Claims Much.
AS yet the Vienna War Office has
given only brief mention to the battle.
saying that the Austrians armies had
invaded the Settle Communi plateau,
lying at an altitude of 3,400 feet
northwest of Asiago, and that up to
noon Sunday more than 10000 Italian,
English and French prisoners and a
great number of guns had been cap
tured.
With the commencement of the
long expected Austrian offensive the
fighting in France has simmered down
almost to sub-nermal except south
west of scissors where the French
against the Germans holding territory
captured last week. Where the
enemy week ago was throwing
thousands upon thousands of men
against the allied lines between
Montdidier and Moyon, Sunday saw
him worn out with his useless efforts
and his forces sadly depleted through
men killed and wounded, unwilling
or unable to further give battle.
Americans Attacked.
In the famous ST. Mihiel sector
where the Americans took over their
first sector of the battle front the
Germans have delivered a stroke and
were rewarded by being able to gain
this village. Soon afterward, how
ever, they were expelled and THE posi-
lions regained. Prisoners were taken
from the Germans who in their anger
throughout Sunday <,'strafed' vii
lagos in the rear with their artillery.
Probably having i'm mind President
Wilson's promise that the war should
not be ended until wrongs of Alsac-
Lorraine are righted, forces of Amer
lean troops are now occupying sectors
in the picturesque territory of Alsace
They have been there since May 81,
and possibly sensing the importance
of the move, both from the strategic
and moral standpoint the Germans
already have delivered an attack
against them. The American casual
ties were light.
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