Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-02
O|Az bETTERS
POSITIONS IN
NORTH ITALY.
Lines Pushed Forward
and Three Mountain
Heights Occupied.
ITALIAN LOSSES
REPORTED SLIGHT
czecho sIovak Troops Take Part in
Operation. and Fight valiantIy--
Germany's Expected Blow Against
Western Front Still Withheld-Ae-
.ivity Behind German Lines on En-.
srmous Scale.
lRy The Associated .Pre,s.l

BY the Associated PreSs.]
General biaz strengthened ap.
preeiabIY his position between
Asiaqo and tho Brenta in tho op-
erations Of Saturday and Sunday
In which Monte di vaIbelIa, Col
Del Roseo and Col di chelo were
taken. The Austrians suffered Sc
.eTT-;y frou, ti,e Italian aIdd =!Yt:ed
artillery fire and lost 1000 pris-
oners. The Italian losses are re-
ported as slight owing to the ac-
nuracy Of the supporting artillery.
Strong enemy counter attack
AGAINST Monte di valbella were
shocked by tho Italians. Vienna
admits the loss Of Monte di VAL
bella and Col Del Rosso and says
the Austrians Withdrew to their
former. positions.
czecho .Slovak troops took part
in the capture Of Monte di Val
bella almost simultaneously. with
announcement that France and
Great Britain had given recosni-
tion Of the czecho- 3lovak fight for
independence.
Gevnnany's expected blow AGAINST
7 shep sstsrn-front 10 still withheld:
Meanwhise ti,e British and Evsneh
eontinps 10 rseapture small piesss
Of terrain in local actions. Y
On the. mountain front west Of
the -Brenta the Italians have ex-
tended their successes by the cap
ture 0. two moro heights.
Activity BEHIND the enemy lines
is reported to be on greater scale
than last week, but the enemy has
aiven no SIGN Of where he will at
tack. The Germans have made
some miner unsuecessful attempts
to retake ground captured by the
allies in the successful nibbling
operations Of the past ten days.
On the British front, near tho
Pieardy area, Field Marshal Hais's
troops have been forced to fight on
tho offensive where they forced
the Germans out Of AviulIon and
on high ground near Bouzincourt,
north o. Albert.
The Germans counter attacked,
strongly there last night but failed
to regain lost territory. Al one
point were they able 70 regain
footing in their old trenches, be-
ing repuIsed with loss everywhere
else. On other parts Of the front
the British and French took pris-
oners in raidins attaoks.
Allied airmen are harrassina the
areas behind Me German lines.
Tho French and British airmen
have brought down or sent down
out Of control fifty-thr German
machines and destroyed eight cap
tive balloons. Asrodomes and other
military targets have been bombed
heavily, while British airmsn keep
up a heavy bombardment around
Metz and eastward toward the
Rhine.
The Germans repeated their at
tempt to raid Paris Monday night,
but met with no success.
Berlin reports the rspulss Of
French and British thrusts. A
great portion Of the report Of Mon.
dsv is given to recapitulation OF
prisoners taken since March ~.
II is claimed the Germans have
taken 191, ,454 allied prisoners. Can
non taken are reported as 2,475 and
the number Of machine guns At
15.o24.
No additional survivors Of the
British hospital ship Llandovery
Castle, torpedoed by . German cub
marine. have reached land. The
number missing 10 234 out Of 25s
persons on board.