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Show x Italian Troops Go Forward For-ward 400 Yards on Mile and a Quarter Front on Their Road to . Triest; Germans Capture French Position. Posi-tion. BRITISH RAID GERMAN BASES In Consequence of Russian Rus-sian Royalists' Riots in Tiflis, in the Caucasus, Grand Duke Nicholas, Former Commander, Is Under Arrest. An advance of 400 yards along a mile and a quarter front by Italian troops on the road to Triest; announcement an-nouncement By the Germans that they had captured a French position posi-tion 1000 yards in length northeast of Soissons, and a British air raid upon German bases along the German Ger-man coast, constituted the chief news developments in the war theaters the-aters Saturday. In consequence of Russian royalists' royal-ists' riots in Tiflis, in the Trans-caucasian Trans-caucasian government of southern Russia, the Grand- Duke Nicholas, formerly chief in command of the Russian armies, is reported arrested. PARIS, June 2 The official communication com-munication tonight reads: Both artilleries were especially active during the afternoon north of Laffaux, in the neighborhood of Hurtebise and the Californie and Craonne plateau. There was no important im-portant event on the rest of the front. From April 1 up to the present the number of prisoners captured by the French and British troops on the western front exceeded 52,-000, 52,-000, of whom more than 1000 were officers. Included in the enormous material taken from the enemy during dur-ing the same time were 446 heavy and field cannon, 1000 machine guns and a considerable number of trench guns. On June 1 five German airplanes fell in flames or crashed to the earth after engagements with our pilots. According to late reports two other German machines were brought down, one May 27, the other oth-er May 30. Adjutant Fonok has ing th same time were 446 heavy up to today. Eastern theater: In the region of Lymuitsa, the enemy having succeeded in gaining a temporary foothold in our trench elements, we drove him out by a vigorous counter attack. The artillery actions ac-tions were particularly spirited in the neighborhood of Lymnitsa, where the enemy employed asphyxiating asphyxi-ating projectiles, and at the Cerna bend, where a battery was hit and we observed an explosion in a munition mu-nition dejiot. Enemy aviators bombarded bom-barded Koritsa and a railroad near Saloniki, but (lid no damage. Onr airplanes dropped bombs on several enemy encampments. ITALIAN FORCES ADVANCE ON THE ROAD TO TRIEST ROME, June 2, via London, 4:35 p. m. Italian forces on the Julian front yesterday yester-day mlvanoed for a distance of 400 yards alonp a one and one-quarter-mile front to the south of Casta imavlzza, on the road to Trlost, says the official statement Issued today by the Italian war department. depart-ment. The Italian announcement reads: Artillery Are was heavier than usual yesterday in the area north and east of Gorizia, and particularly in the northern sector of the Carso. On Thursday night wo again repulsed re-pulsed an enemy, attack on hill 652 In the Vodice area and Against our lines on hill 126. south of the Orazig-na Orazig-na and on hill 174. north of Tivoll. Sou Hi of Casta gnavizza our infantry infan-try nade a surprise attack and advanced ad-vanced our line about 400 yards on a one and one-quarter-mile front-r front-r There were numerous air encoun ters yesterday above Gorizia. Raids attempted by the enemy on the city (Continued on Page Two.) mm mice MADE BY Clli (Continued from Page One.) were all repulsed. One enemy machine ma-chine was brought down near Aiso-vizza. Aiso-vizza. Our airplanes bombed military mili-tary objectives from Duino to Opiclna northeast of Triest. All our machines ma-chines returned safely. |