Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1918 — WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

WAR SUMMARY.

The Italian and allied armies are sustaining the weight of the Austrain forces which 'are {attacking along the front of the Italian theatre from the northwest of the Asiago plateau eastward to the Piave river and thence along that stream to where ** joins the headwaters of the Adriatic sea, a front of nearly 100 miles. The Austrians, having brought up strong reinforcements in men and guns, many of them from Roumania and Galicia, are using them without stint in the effort to debouch from the mountain passes and cross the Piave river and gain the Venetian plains. Everywhere the fighting is of an extremely sanguinary character, especially east of the Asiago plateau, in the Brenta valley, and on Monte Grappa. The enemy succeeded . in capturing several front line positions in the mountain region from the British and also in crossing the Piave. Counter attacks, however, have restored all the positions in the mountains, including territory to a depth of 1,000 yards along a 2,500 yard front captured from the British. At last accounts the allied troops everywhere were strongly holding the enemy and King Victor Emmanuel's men were gallantly striving to throw back the invaders across the Piave. The Italians have taken more than 3,000 Austrian prisoners, among them eighty-nine officers. The Vienna war office says the Austrian armies b*ve invaded the Setti Comuni plateau, 'lying at. an altitude of 3,400 feet northwest of Asiago, and that up to noon Sunday more than 10,00 Italian, English mid French soldiers and a considerable number of guns bad been captured.