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Show In the Zone From Go-rizia Go-rizia to the Adriatic Sea Army of General Cadorna Cap t u r e s Nearly 10,000 Prison-ers Prison-ers and Puts 15,000 More Out of Action. BATTLE CONTINUES TO RAGE FIERCELY One Austrian Regiment Said to Have Been Annihilated; An-nihilated; British and French Make Slight Additional Gains at Verdun and on the Somme. ROME, via London, Nov. 3, (3:31 p. m. In the zone from Gorizia to the Adriatic Adri-atic sea the Italians have captured additional ad-ditional points of vantage from the Aus-trians Aus-trians and taken 394 S more prisoners and guns, machine guns and quantities of arms and ammunition, according to the official communication issued today. Tho communication says: Julian front : Prom Gorizia to the sea hard fighting, which resulted in further successes along the northern north-ern brow of the Carso plateau, continued con-tinued yesterday. Hero the troops of the Eleventh army corps, who repulsed violent counter-attacks during the night, took strong defenses de-fenses on difficult ground east of "Veliki Kriback and Mount Pecinka. After taking several trenches and clearing the enemy out of the woods and caves, tho Fourth and Forty-fifth Forty-fifth divisions, in spite of an intense artillery fire and counter attacks, held the line runniQg from Mount Faite, over the heights of Point 319 to Point 229 on the Oppaehiasella-Castagnavizza Oppaehiasella-Castagnavizza road, 700 meters west of tho latter. On the remainder of the front east of Gorizia, and from Hubilog to tho sea, all tho positions gained by our troops. November 1, have been maintained, notwithstanding incessant inces-sant attacks, which were supported by concentrated artillery fire. 'During the day we took 3498 prisoners, pris-oners, including 16 officers, among them a brigade commander, a regimental regi-mental commander and three field officers. Two mountain guns, numerous nu-merous machine guns, and largo quantities of arms nnd ammunition and war material of all kinds, also fell into our hands. During a hostile air raid the night of November 1-2, over the Lower Isonzo, our guns brought down hydroplane hy-droplane L-7.". The officer and pilot of tho machine wero killed. AUSTRIANS LOSE 15,000 MEN FIRST DAY OF THE FIGHT LONDON, Nov. 3, 1:40 p. m. A Rome dispatch to the Wireless Press sa vs the first day nf tho new Italian offensive cost the Austrians the loss of 15.000 men. One-third of them were made prisoners, the dispatch says. (The Italian war office reported that 4730 prisoners had been taken.) The Twenty-first Twenty-first Austrian regiment and several battalions bat-talions aro said to have been annihilated. annihi-lated. The weather is favorable and the battle bat-tle against the heights east of Gorizia and on the Carso continues fiercely. Austrian counter attacks are described as feeble. RING OF VERDUN FORTS NOW FIRMLY HELD BY FRENCH PARTS, Nov. 3. noon. The French occupied oc-cupied Fort Vruix last evening afler waiting wait-ing for the cassation of great explosions InsMc- te fort, the war office reported today. The fort, varuated by the Germans Ger-mans yesterday, pafscd acraln Into thft pofseaplon of the French without loss to them. The Germane save up the fort, thft statement sas. as a result of the- violent Frem-h homh;mlnient and the gnidual closins: tn of Frcivh troops. The entrance of the French into tills position was nut contested. Tho Hnp of Verdun forts in now :s; nhlishd and Is held firmly hy the French. The n nnouncement follows: South of the Somme the artillery (Continued on Fase Two.) ' ITALIAN BATTERING B GOES THROUGH (Continued from Pago One.) fighting was fairly lively In the vectors of Tenons and Chilly. A surprise, sur-prise, attack was rarried out by us aganst German trenches west of Lancourt. On the right hank of the Mens Verdun front) the night was relative! rela-tive! v calm. Yesterday the enemy, owinsf to the violence of our bombardment, bom-bardment, which had continued several sev-eral dgv, evacuated Fort Vaux during dur-ing the" afternoon without wafting for en attack by our Infantry, whose pressure was becoming closer and closer. Yen- heavy explosions were beard In Ihe fort. During the night, our Infantry, In-fantry, which had gone up quite close to the fort, occupied this very important impor-tant work without any joss. The belt of interior tons of Verdun fs now re-established in Its entirety and ia held firmly by our troops. Aviation: On the Somme front one of our three-seated aeroplane? was attacked in the region of Allaines f north of Peronne) by a group of six enemy machines and succeeded In bringing down one of them. One of our chasing squadrons, which came without delay to the help of our machine, ma-chine, brought down a second enemy a eropiane and forced the others to flee. A German machine, struck by a shell from our anti-aircraft guns, fell In the forept of Nonnen Bruck, west of Muelhausen (Alsace). |