Show ITALIANS FIERCELY ATTACK AUSTRIANS ARE DRAWING NET AROUND AUSTRIN strongholds STRONG HOLDS AFTER WEEKS OF FIGHTING made necessary to continually bring up reinforcements that could have been used against monte and Ser serbians Serb ians blans london with the retreat ot of the greater part ot of the serbian army across the albanian frontier and the announcement of 0 the capture of 0 mona stir by the bulgarians Bulga rians the slowness ot of tho the operations against montenegro and in southern serbia owing to the wintry weather and the absence ot of any major operations on the western and eastern fronts interest in the military side of the war is now transferred to the austro italian frontier where king victor manuels emmanuela Em troops are car carrying crying on an exegetic ene getic offensive against the austrians Aust rians the fighting on this front has been the most mos t sustained and fiercest of the whole war for weeks the italians have been attacking the austrian bridgeheads and mountain positions along the isonzo isonio river and are slowly but surely drawing their nets around tolmino gorizia and roberdo Do berdo this for or the time being is italis contribution to the balkan operations of the allies for it keeps a large force of austrians Aust rians busy and makes it naces necessary tor for them continually to bring up reinforcements which could be usefully employed against the montene grins and serbians Serb ians the serbians Serb ians unless followed into albania will in time probably reappear as a reouven abed army for it Is said that tha t 0 of them including soldiers and civilians have taken renge refuge there and that they have saved all their mountain batteries and a portion portio u ot of their field guns also included in this nun are all the youths who can fill the gaps gap when equipment reaches them from the adriatic german papers state that field marshal non on Macken sens army with dul bul carians and turks is to be directed against the anglo french forces in the south but doubtless m many any of them are going down the danube to meet the russian menace the public Is expecting every day to hear of the movement ot of the russian army which the emperor recently reviewed in Bes sarabia but apparently the negotiations with roumania Rou manla for the use of the danube have not been completed A budapest report goes so tar far as to say that Rou roumania manla has refused permission to the russians to use the river through doumanian Rou manian territory which would be the more convenient route tor for an attack on oil western bulgaria |