Show AU AUSTRIANS AUSTRIANS' 5 liNES TORN BY TERRifiC I CANNONADE J Allies' Allies Artillery Hammers Trenches Flat and Annihilates Reg Regiments of Invaders on Italian Front BRITISH ARMED ARn SHIP IS SUNK PERISH U Boat Torpedoes Fighting o 0 Vessel in iii Mediterranean i Sharp Shap Raids Continue at Points on Western r estern Front London Feb I 2 The a.-The The The- I. I boarding steamer r t Lieutenant Commander 31 U. G ft G. Enston newton new new- ton tou undine was 11 torp torpedoed nod sunk stink It by a u German submarine In 10 tb the hr eastern Mediterranean on January I 1 i. i Seven enn officers and 21 1 DI men n sere cre lout lost The official announcement ft n made tonight Bj By International Newa w 5 T L LONDON ONDON Feb 2 Ill Infantry fighting fight fight- in ing on the Italian mountain front bus uris subsided cd time the Austro bavins been defeated in every cry attempt to regain the positions they lost to the Italians early this Ibis week Sharp local combats continue In the w west vest t the tire British h successfully raided rallIed German a trenches southeast of and beat ot off a n German raiding party part north t of r f The French scored success In a raid In wood German artillery ac activity ac- ac tivit ha has temporarily died down n Italian Army Headquarters Feb Teb 2 The The enem enemy made another powerful effort yesterday to redeem the situation situation situa situa- tion ion west of the Brenta river where the tire Italians recently won von a notable I success but was beaten back b by the tire combined action of tho time infantry anti and i artillery without reaching his Iris objective thc lye of or Monte dl di Vail Vall Delia Bella where the tIme Italians are maintaining their theil posit t tion I 0 fl An observer er who talked with a number number num nurn- ber of ot the captured officers and 1 men said Maid the they wore worp a n miserable looking lot runny many of them wearing Italian uniforms uni uni- forms taken during luring the tire invasion of or the Friuli region All AlI the prisoners agreed as to the furious nature of ot the time fighting and the tue exceptionally hea heavy losses caus caused d b by bythe the tire concentration of oC the tho fire CIte of or the tire Italian French and British batteries batterie Trent hen Knocked Fiat The Tire trenches were vere levelled le and the tIme links between the time forward and rear lines hues swept awa away asay thus stopping all nIl communications and arid preventing the tire officers of ot- from ordination co In Inthe Inthe the lie work of the artillery tH un and the In- In Cantry antry The Tue few trenches remaining were ere uttered littered with dead and the tire survivors cur sur were wele found for fUI oi the time most part parton on their knees hn crying or praying The Tire Twenty first rifle division of ot the tire Austrian forc forces had men muir put putout putout putout out of action or 01 about 70 jO per Por cent of tho tiro fighting forces Brigades of or the tire Eighteenth and arid Sixth Austrian divisions divi Ions clone hud had amounting to approximately approximately ap ap- ap- ap proximately 50 CiO per cent But the tho most terrible loss Joss was In Inflicted inflicted in- in on the tho which of ur several thousand men in line ha has only a a. few hundred left leet Tire The magnitude magnitude magni magni- tude tride of or such losses was wa due to the time triple artillery I fire tire of the allies s main t tamed for tal forty consecutive hours linus Maltreat Prisoner Interrogation of ot prisoners gave confirmation con con- of oC reports that the tire Germans Im haVo ima moved mo troops from tire the Russian to time the French front during the armistice TIni This was accompanied Indirectly b by granting leave to tho tiro best troops on tire the Russian front their places being filled tilled from the time invalid cla class s. s Exchanged Italian HaHnn prisoners who I have hae Just arrived from Austrian concentration con con- con I camps tell of almost unbelievable I cruelties practiced a against prisoners on r particularly Serbians who arc reported confined d in cu cages es and nd fed tell through bars like hike animals Concerning the time Italians the statement state state- ment says say's thC turned in rage after alter suffering treatment ill and anti exposure ure to cold while virLie compelled to work Worl on enemy trenches under tinder the guard of ot Hungarians who arc aro d declared h to be Continued ou on Pogo Pago ago I. I ALLY ARTILLERY MOWS AUSTRIANS Continued from Page c 1 1 particularly p hostile to tho Italians I The They received a small loaf loat of broad bread I dalt dally daily for division among el eight ht men Conditions are so 80 terrible the tho report Kays that the they will result In not more moro than third one-third of or the Italian prisoners coming back alive |