Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1917 — ALLIED DRIVE GAINS FORGE [ARTICLE]

ALLIED DRIVE GAINS FORGE

Enemy Carried Back With Losses On All Fronts. The Austrians have established a desperate resistance, to the Italian forces on the Balnsizza plateau on the front north of Gorlzia following the ter riffle drive of General Cadorna’s men for several days. The resistance has been overcome in a few places. The intensity of the struggle has increased owing to this extreme desperation of the Austrians, who by the greater employment of forces is seeking to prevent the Italians from progressing toward the eastern extremity of the plateau. The are facing the resistance with firm resolution and have been rewarded in various points by victory. . The Germans likewise have been fighting etrenuously to regain lost positions in the Verdun region, but the combined British and French forces have succeeded in holding all of the positions taken and have, in the drive, regained practically all of the positions taken by the Germans in the first Verdun drive. Attacks were made on the Aisne front Sunday night by the Teutons but were broken up by the French fire, the P&rls war office announces. More than 1,100 prisoners were taken. The official Russian statement declares that an Austro-German attack on Roumanian positions south of Ocna Sunday night was repulsed and that northeast of Soveia the Roumanians recovered a height which had been wrested from them. The last few days have been comparatively quiet in of Lens and the Canadians have been able to consolidate positions recently captured with little retaliation from the enemy and with surprisingly little loss. The latest report shows that 600 Austrian officers and 23,000 men have been captured and counted, and more are being taken each day. In addition the capture of w’ar stores by the Italians has been enormous, including guns of all calibers and arms, ammunition, horses and motor tractors. From the supply depots abandoned by the enemy in his flight the Italians now are enabled to replenish their troops fighting in the difficult country. ’ The total losses of the Austrians from all causes are reckoned at nearly 100,000, the most important of which, in the Carso region, have not yet been officially announced.