Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-20

LONDON, June ,9.-ReuteTs
 Rome correspondents says that ac-
 cording to report the Austrian er-
 peror, who is at the front, is dis
 appointed at the results obtained
 in the present offensive and,
 jealous of the excessive credit the
 Germans took for their share in
 last years offensive, is determined
 to make another desperate At-
 tempt to overwheim the Italians
 unade6, before asking for Ger
 man assistance.
 The Teutonic allies apparently have lost their spirit of do-or-die. Their at tacks everywhere lately have lacked the tenaciousness of days gone by.
 Instead of ploughing through allied line with stubborn indifference to cas- ualties so long as an objective was gained, they now waYer and then halt in the face of the artillery and rifle fire of the men barring their way 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 opening of a gateway to Paris through the west ern front, running from Montdidier to the Marne, failed completely; the offensive on the Italian bat tie l inc launched by the Au- strians seemingly has failed miserably in the mountain regions, and apparent ly has almost been stopped along the Piave, while a stroke started by the Germans against Rheims broke down in its inception without the enemy talk ing yard of territory.
 And in these various attempted en- terprises the high commands of the German and Austro- Hungarian armies have seen their men literally mown down until battlefields have been clog ged with dead or wounded as recon pense to the allied troops for the small bits of terrain they yielded.
 l The Austrian offensive in the Ital- ian theater is still in progress along the Piave river but in the mountain region after the sharp reaction by the Italians, British and French troops who in counter attacks pushed back the invader from the points he had reached in his initial rush, the enemy evidently is fearful of again trying out the mettle of the defenders.
 On the Piave numerous attempts have been made by the Austrians to gain further bridgeheads on the west ern bank of the stream but the Italians everywhere are holding them with their gun fire and also doing sangu- mary execution within the ranks of the enemy across the river with bombs and machine gunfire.
 The Austrian war office asserts that the Austro-fiungarian troops have crossed the FossetCa 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 plateau, the key to the Venetian plains, have been pierced. Rome, on the other hand de- clared that all the weak attempts made in the MOntello region were completely repulsed.
 More than 5000 men have been talk en by the Italians since the offensive began and many guns and several hun dred machine guns have been cap tured. That intensive air fighting also has taken place is shown by the fact that fifty enemy planes have been shot uOh H. OlAAl lMu Ol lllG dllltl sld- chimes have failed to return to their base.
 The attacks of the Germans near Rheims resulted disastrously to them. Hardly had they left their trenches after one of the most terrific lombard ments with shells of all calibre includ- ing gas projectiles ever experienced on the western front, nearly 40,000 men were faced by the reinforced French armies and literally cut to pieces and forced to fall back precipi- tately. Only at one point, to the east of Rheims, did the enemy succeed in penetrating the French lines. Here they were elected almost immediately. The German official communication describes the attack as a demonstra- tion of artillery and mine throwers.
 Little activity has prevailed on the remainder of the western front. ex- cept the usual reciprocal lombard ments and operations in the nature of patrol engagements.
 The success of the recent naval at- tack by the British on the German sub marine base at Zeebrugge seemingly was more successful than anticipated Twenty-one destroyers, a large num- Der of submarines and numerous aux Hilary craft are blocked in the canal by the ships sunk across the waterway.