New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-06-21
REGAIN
GROUND |N|TAlY
COUNTER BLOWS DUST AUS
TRANS FROM POSITIONS WON
IN OFFENSIVE.
YANKEES STAND GAS
GERMANS INCREASE ATTACK,
BUT AMERICAN LINE HELD
At ALL POINTS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

With the American Army in France,
June ia German raiding party
took a few American prisoners on the
Luneville front Monday morning. The
enemy raid followed a patrol fight,
in which the Americans penetrated
the enemy trenches, killing n Ger
mar and w%ounding another.
The Germans Monday began using
gas to a greater extent along this
front than they have done heretofore.
With the Italian Army, June 1S.-Aus.
trian troops which forced the Piave
river have been driven back. The
fighting along the river is most in.
tense. Nowhere else along the front
Of attack has the struggle been SO Sc
we're as on the Piave river.
One of the most brilliant Of the ltal-
ian actions was the defense OF the
Monte Moschin salient protecting the
important Brenta position. Here the
Austrians suffered heavy losses, many
of their machine guns being captured.
The prisoners are ragged and ill-fed.
Many of them are understood youths.
One of them remarked to the CORE
spondent that he hal not interest In
the war.
Not alone are the Italians and their
British and French comrades in arms
holding in check the Austrian often
sive along the greater part Of the 100
mile battle front from the region OF
Trent to the Adriatic sea, but they
have turned aggressoTs on some OF
the more important sectors, especially
in the mountain regions.
Thus far the Italians, BritiEh and
French troops have made prisoner Of
more than $500 Austrians, while the
Austrian wal office asserts that 12,-
600 prisoners have been taken by the
Austrians.
London, June 18.-On the front in
France the fighting activity has been
limited to local German attacks at iso-
lated points. Against the French along
the Matz river the enemy failed. The
same result attended a strong effort
to penetrate the American lines at
Xivray, east of st. Mihiel. The Amer
lean artillery fire broke UP the enemy
attack with heavy losses and only a
small force reached Xivray, where 1t
was wiped out by the Americans. An
attempt to raid the new American sec
tor in Alsace Sunday was broken up
by machine gun and rifle fire.
The Lys salient in Flanders is being
subjected to a heavy German artillery
fire. The enemy is paying special at
teItion to the front southwest of
Ypres east of Dickebusch lake and to
the western part of the southern leg
of the salient where the British re-
Gently carried out a considerable local
advance.
pied Coeuvres ct Valsery Southwest
of Scissors, an important strategic
point from which the Germans have
been e%ndeavoring to debouch their
troops.
London.-British troops in a local
operation have captured the German
forward positions on a front of two
miles north of Bethune, according to
Field Marshal Haig's report.
With the enemy fought to a stand.
still, something like a stable line Is
being re-established in the C%ompiegne
battle. On the whole front between
Montdidier and Chateau Theirry, the
outlook is now regarded in Paris with
more confidence, but anxiety is still
expressed in London, where 1t is con.
sidered that great peril is yet ahead
for the allies.
There are three goals at which the
enemy may strike, namely, Paris,
Amiens and Calais, and the allies, 1t
is assumed, have little chance of as.
pertaining the enemy's intention be-
fore the blow falls.
Three million Ameri.
cans. will be under arms by next Aug.
/, the Senate military committee was
told by Provost Marshal General
Crowder. Extension of the age limits
in the army draft will be necessary,
Gen. Crowder said, il the present rate
of draft calls is continued. He est.
mated that all the men in class l
would be exhausted after next Jan. l.
Gen. Crowder said that 1,347,000 Of
the 2,42S,0 900 men placed in class / al.
ready have been called to the colors.