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Show Defenders Win Notable Success by Retaking 1300 Feet of Trenches; East of River Teutons Carry French Trenches Between Douaumont and Vaux Pond. ITALIAN FIRST LINE IS BROKEN Austrian Forces Capture the Asiago-Arsiero Defenses De-fenses ; Rome Reports Repulse of Several Enemy En-emy Attacks, but Admits Ad-mits Heavy Pressure. PARIS, June 1, 10:15 p. m. Several Sev-eral thousand Austrian troops have teen observed among recent reinforcements rein-forcements brought to the vicinity of Douaumont. Among military observers here," this is believed to indicate that Germany has insisted that Austria divide her effectives in aid of the Germans, in spite of the fact that an Austrian offensive is being pressed against Italy. (Special Table br Arrangement with London Dally Telegraph and International News Service.) LONDON, June 1. The battle of Verdun i-agerl on both sides of the MeusG today with a vigor and fury as great as though this were the first day of the engagement instead of the one hundred and second. On the west bank of the Meuse, at the dreadful Dead Man hill, the French won a noteworthy success, capturing 1300 feet of the German trenches. East of the river the Germans carried a section sec-tion of French trenches southeast of 1 Fort Douaumont. j Each winning was made with ''extremely ''ex-tremely heavy losses" for each side after a series of assaults. The net total is an added list of hundreds or thousands thou-sands of casualties and with nothing approaching a decision in the contest. A Berlin dispatch, however, claims that the capture of Cumieres village is worth much of the slaughter, since it has established estab-lished direct communication between the west and east of the Meuse, and thus nullifies the French flanking fire. Today's fighting, however, seems to indicate that the great German objective objec-tive the reduction of the salient' formed hy the French line between Dead Man and Cumieres is not yet an accomplished fact. Austrians Aid Germans. A Paris dispatch, noting the presence of "several thousand Austrian troops in the vicinity of Douaumont," indicates that the reports that the Germans had called on their allies is well founded. The Austro-Hungariaus have captured Asia go and Arsiero, and now are furiously fu-riously attacking the chain of crests to the south vard in a drive on Vicenza. News of the smashing of the Italian first line of defense reached here today in a delayed official statement received from Vienna by way of Amsterdam. The name statement announced the capture of about 31.100 Italian prisoner? and 299 guns in the last two weeks. Correspondents at the front state that more than 80.000 Italians have been put cut of action. Rome Shows Anxiety. The Italians have at least 120.000 men attempting to stem the Austrian advance, according to correspondents at the front. The Asiago-Arsiero line and the mountains moun-tains to the southward form the last line of mountain defense of the vast plains of northern Italy. An official statement received tonight to-night from Rome reports that the Austrians Aus-trians are bringing great pressure to bear against the f talian wings. The Austrian i-nntcr also is snid to be desperately des-perately attacking the Italian mountainside mountain-side positions in the Asiago-Arsiero districts. dis-tricts. Two attacks were repulsed. An attempt of the Austrians to force (Continued on Page Eight.) "FRENCH HL FOE BACK at mm (Continued from Page One.) HuoJe pass in the l,a.;irina valley, ulsu Was IVfJllNt-d. |
