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Show ITALIAN GENTER COfJTIfJUES ITS PLIlTrlJ DRIVE While Mass EngAgemenU Have Not Taken Place of Late, Stubborn Fighting Fight-ing Marks Each Day. By ANDRE BEAUMONT. tSp-i-lsl CaMe ! A n mip nH wttli l.i.n,!,.-! Ptlly I t'l-K! uil lu Intoi imHolial New t-oi'v lr. 1 MILAN, Auk. 0. --The Italian router lit i 'a ran cunt Imics to ad a nee. T lie ouw n M nujwmrnt coiHliuici em li luy, n-pfesent-ini; Niimll Inn metlRMleiil naiim. Al-1 Al-1 1 u ik 1 1 no Iftre mil hh eiif-'tiKCtnentH huve taken pluro for noiu daH. the AuHlilans iipl'rently ate belnn eonvtnecd that all ll'elr 8arritUe an- lifeless. Steady, htird, stuhborn flshtlm;. nevci thclcs.s, niurka earli day. The Italian front Is now u considerable number of Uilometera wist of Siittrado and tho line. The ex t re me portions at 1 o-berdo o-berdo are seven miles farther to I he. eant than they were a month or five weekH uko. The a rra thus Rained south of .lorlEl; Is extremely hilly and rocky and was won in the face of enormous dlfTI-culttes, dlfTI-culttes, especially as It was defended fiercely huh by Inch, by tho Austrlans. nil the nor t hern field uf ( iui'izia t)i Italians continue (heir steady pressure i against the A ust rln ns and ha ve a d van ceil their lines boond tlte biidk'ehed of l'hiui. 'n the direction of Zaorn and alonn the eastern docltvitiea of Monte Kuk. Their progress was stopped for a while by the fire ol the heavy guns in the batteries of the foils north of liorlzia, hut a number of tliet.e Latteries have now been silenced. An action of pre at brilliancy was fou;:il b- the Alpinl in a lofty glacier in the region of Tonale. In western Tiemino, where the mountain puns were draped up to the heights of I'unia Ercavallo. a pull of ."-." motors, iind slielled the Aus-tnans Aus-tnans out of their positions at Maln Pallida, In Valnumtc. a series of tm-ixrtnnt tm-ixrtnnt lines held by the Austrian. A i-onslderab!e amount of war material was captured. |