The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-06-21
They Now Waiver and Halt in
the Face of the Allies
- Hot Fire.
ITALIAN OFFENSIVE FAILS
The Battle Has Gone Miserably
Against Austrians and Allies
Line is Being Held Firm All
Along Front.

The Teutonic allies apparently
have lost their spirit of do-or-die.
Their alta Ks everywhere lately have
lacked >the tenaciousness of days
gone by
Instead of ploughing through al
lied lines with stubborn indifference
to casualties so long as an objective
was-gained, they now waver and
then halt in the face of the artillery
and rife fire. of the men barring
their way, and with the points they
were trying to gain still far beyond
their reach.
Ambitious attempts by the troops
of the central powers in the past few
weeks have proven this. The open
ing of a gateway to Paris through
the western front, running from
Montdidier "a, ~ Marine, failed com
pletely; the hensive or the Italian
battle line launched by the Austrians
seemingly has failed miserably in the
mountain regions and apparently has
almost been stopped along the Piave.
while stroke started by the>Ger-
mans against Rheims broke down in
. its inception without the enemy TAX
ing yard Of territory. -
And in these varied attempted en-
tefprises, the higher command of the
German and Austro-Hungarian ar
mics have seen their men literally
@down until fields have been
clogged with dead or wounded as re-
compense to the allied troops for
the small bits OF terrain they yield
ed
The Austrian offensive in the
Italian theatre is still in progress
along the Piave river but in the
mountain region after the sharp re-
action by the Italian, British and
French troops, who in counter-at-
tacks pushed back the invader from
the points he had attained in his ini.
tial rush. the enemy evidently is
fearful OF again trying out the met
tie of the defenders.
On the Piave numerous attempts
have been made by the Austrians to
gain further bridgeheads on the
western bank of the stream but the
Italians everywhere are holding
them with their gunfire and also do
ing sanguinary execution within the
ranks OF the enemy across the river
with bombs and machine gunfire
The Austrian war office asserts
that the Austro-Hungarian troops
have crossed the Fossetta canal at
some points where Tuesday it was
claimed they had made advances and
also that several Italian lines at the
southern foot OF the Montello pia-
teau. the key TO the Venetian plain.
have been pierced. Rome, on the
other hand, declared that all the
weak attempts made in the Montello
region were completely repulsed
More than 5000 men have been
taken by the italians since the Of
fensive began and many guns and
several hundred machine guns have
been captured. 3 That intensive all
fighting has also taken place Is
shown by the fact that fifty enemy
planes have been shot down. Only
two Or three allied machines have
I An "sd to return to their base.
)un,, 2 attacks of theeG Germans near
Ter resulted disastrously to
ton, Hardly had they left their
-. rs after one of the most ter
rife Bombardments with shells OF all
calibres, including gas projectilos,
ever experienced on the western
front, nearfyA9,oOO men were faced
y by the Reinforced French armies and
literally cutoo pieces and forced to
IAN back bfecipitatedly. Only at
\ pc point, TO the east OF Rheims did
Ne enemy succeed in penetrating
me French line. Here they we're
rhfcTed, almost Immediately. The
q official communication de-
Y the attack as demonstration
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