Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-05-27 | Page 2 | Italians Move Farther down toward Triest

ITALIANS HE FARTHER Oil TBipiEST! Cadorna Carries Another Heavily Fortified Position Between the Gulf and Castagnavizza. GAINS MAINTAINED NORTH OF GORIZIA Heavy Austrian Counter attacks Repulsed; French Make Further Progress on Champagne Front. Geueral Oa.lorua's brilliant offensive continues unchecked, each day finding the Italian line projecting a little farther far-ther down the Carso pleateau toward Triest. The Austrian line gave way again on Friday between Castagnavizza and the Hull' of Triest, the advancing Italian troops carrying another heavily fortified forti-fied position and capturing an additional addi-tional 3-300 men. Their captures in the offensive beginning 5Iay 14 now total i-:.41;). The Italian right rlajik, resting on the coast, now has passed the mouth of the Timavo river, while the center of the army in this sector has been pushed beyond be-yond ,la;::ianov the advance taking in the heights between Flondar and Me-deazza. Me-deazza. The right wing 13 operating around Castagnavizza and has taken additional trenches there. In the region north of Gorizia Wie Italian forces are maintaining the gains they scored last week. Heavy Austrian attacks in the Vodice area were repulsed, and in the Plava sector the Austrians were pushed still farther back. The French announce further progress prog-ress on the Champagne front and the repulse of two German counter-attacks against the French salients east and west of Cernv. Berlin states that the army group of the German crown prince aptured .344 officers and men and fifteen fif-teen machine guns in an attack on the French trenches on the Chemin Des Dames, south of Pareny. It adds that French attacks on a three-mile front south of Nauroy in the western Champagne Cham-pagne were repulsed. Russian troops frustrated a Turkish attempt to dislodge them from heights south of Van on the Caucasus front.