Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1918 — AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE IS HELD IN CHECK [ARTICLE]

AUSTRIAN OFFENSIVE IS HELD IN CHECK

Italians Strike Back and Recapture Certain Points Lost NO CHANGE ON WEST FRONT Huns Are Throwing Gas Shells On the Front Now Held by the American Troops. Rome, June 17.—Italian troops, in conjunction with their French and British allies, yesterday began a counter offensive against the Aus-tro-Hungarian forces which had launched an attack on the Italian mountain front. The Italian and Allied troops, according to announcement made today by the war office, were able to gain partial successes and to rectify their lines at several points along the front. Paris, June 17.—“ Between the Oise and the Aisne we repulsed enemy counter attacks'north of 'Hautebraye and consolidated our gains of the morning,” says the war office announcement tonight. “The prisoners taken in this region numbered 370. .We captured, as well, twentyfive machine guns and eight trench mortars.”

London, June 17.—The Austrians are reorganizing their effectives along the British line of the Italian front after their “severe defeat,” according to an official statement issued tonight on the operations of the British with the Italians. Not alone are the Italians and their British and French comrades In arms holding in check the Austrian offensive along the greater part of the hundred mile front fro.ni' the region southeast of Trent to the Adriatic sea, but they themselves have turned aggressors on some of the more important sectors, especially in the mountain regions. With the American Forces on the Marne, June 17. —The Germans today began using gas to a greater extent along this front than they have dope heretofore. The Bois De Belleau came in for its share, but notwithstanding the heavy gas and other shelling the American lines remain intact. An American patrol crossed the river Marne last Hight east of Chaten Thierry and at once established contact with the Germans. After an exchange of shots the Americans recrossed the river safely by means of boats. A heavy rain began falling late this afternoon.