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Show ITALIANS CHECK HOSTILE ATTACK . ON BRENT A FRONT nOMK, Sunday, Dec. Ifi. There wis Httlo infantry fight hip on the front between be-tween the Bron ta and Tiavp Saturday and one hostile attack was checked, tho official .statement from the war office today to-day says. There was much artillery flfiM-ing flfiM-ing on the northern front. The statement state-ment reads: Between Breula ml 'he Piave the struffKlc, vbieh diminished in intensity in-tensity Friday evening, did not increase! in-crease! yesterday. About o'clock in the afternoon, in the Col cbdla Herettn, region, hostile infantry attempted to advance against, our line, but wan driven buck completely by a prompt counter-attack. The artillery activity generally maintained the character of a baraKf Ing fire. Our im Iter lea repeatedly re-peatedly and for a long time put down an intense ha muz e on ihe positions on Col Capri lie. which had been withdrawn with-drawn from tho day bel'nro. In the (iludi curia valley, on t be nlpht of thn Hth-Kdh. we repulsed enemy detachments which, afier long prepa ra t imi, n 1 1 em pi ed to ca ny one of our observa Uon post h on Moiilu Maiino. At the delta of the Piave, a slorming platoon, well supported by an armed motor boa t, dost royed one cf the enemy's small bridgeH. and patrols, pa-trols, consisling nf sailors, attacked some houses occupied by the enemy and captured a numher nf prisoners. Alone the remainder of the front the fight Ina: was normal. On the night of the 14 th - I h movements move-ments of troops w it bin t he enemy's lines of communication wern bombarded bom-barded effectively by our airships. A hostile uiiplanR w;us brought down by Hrllish airmen near Onndlc jiiid one of our airmen accounted for another machine went of the Snren valley. |