The Elbert County tribune., 1918-06-21
ALLIES REGAIN
GROUND IN ITALY
COUNTER BLOWS DUST AUS
TRANS FROM POSITIONS WON
IN OFFENSIVE
YANKEES STAND GAS
GERMANS INCREASE ATTACK,
BUT AMERICAN LINE HELD
AT ALL POINTS.

June 17.-About GOO German shock
troops raided the American first-line
positions at the village of Xfvray. In
the Toul sector. early Sunday morn
ing Some Of the enemy got into Xiv
ray, but were soon driven out. At 9th
err points the Germans were badly
beaten. The attack began at o'clock
in the morning after an extremely vto-
lent bombardment. The Germans ad-
vanced swiftly to the attack but were
met by heavy fire. Those who pene-
trated Xivray were forced speedily to
withdraw and elsewhere the enemy
was completely repulsed in hard fight
ing lasting more than two hours.
Several attempts by the Germans TO
penetrate the American lines in the
Marne sector have been smashed by
the American machine gun fire.
While the gigantic Austrian attempt
to break through to the plains Of Italy
has occupied the center of the stage,
events Of Importance may be taking
shape in the Somme battlefield. Heavy
firing by the German artillery In the
Ancre valley and northward to Serre
Is reported by the British. II is on this
part of the front that German attack
has been expected by the allies. aud
the German bombardmept may be the
prelude of resumption Of the enemy's
offensive in France
with the American Army In France.
June ia German raiding party
took a few American prisoners on tae
Luneville front Monday morning. The
enemy raid followed patrol fight.
in which the Americans penetrated
the enemy trenches. killing one Ger
man and wounding another.
The Germans Monday began using
gas to a greater extent along this
front than they have done heretofore.
With the Italian Army, June 18.-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 30 Sc
we're as on the Piave river.
One of the most brilliant of the Ital-
ian actions was the defense Of the
Monte Moschin salient protecting the
Austrians suffered heavy losses. many
OF their machine guns being captured.
The prisoners are ragged and ill-fed.
Many OF them are undersized youths.
One OF them remarked to the corrs-
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
Trent to the Adriauc sea. but they
have turned agsressors on some Of
the more important sectors, especially
in the mountain regions.
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 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
email force reached Xivray, where it
was wiped out by the Americans. An
attempt to raid the new American sec
to- in Alsace Sunday was broken up
by machine gun and rifle fire
The Lys salient in Flanders is being
subjected to heavy German artillery
fire. The enemy is paying special at
tertion 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 considerable local
advance.
Paris.-French troops have reoccu-
pied Coeuvres ct Valsery southwest
of Scissors. an important strategic
point from which the Germans have
been endeavoring to debouch their
troops.
London.-British troops In a local
operation have captured tho German
forward positions on a front of two
miles north of Bethune, according 20
Field Marshal Haig's report.