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Show ITALIANS HOLD THEIR GROUND ON THE PIAWEj Teutons Only Able to Make an Insignificant Gain After an Onslaught Lasting All Day. - BRITISH IMPROVE THEIR POSITION London Reports Bomb Fighting East of Bulle-court; Bulle-court; Germans Capture Cap-ture Few Men, ROME, Dec. 11. After attacking all day on the lino between the Brenta and the Piave, the enemy was only able to make an insignificant insignifi-cant gain yesterday at one point and this at an immense sacrifice, the war office announced today. The almost negligible ground gained by the enemy was noith of the line of Monte Solarolo and the head of tho Calcino valley. WASHINGTON, Pee. 1 4. Austro-Cer-niiin operations aiming ;it ihe penetration of 1 ho import:! n I coastti I region of the Venetian lagoon in Haly have been frustrated frus-trated with heavy losses to Hie Invaders, , oni'-iai uispatcnes irom nomc ionay announced. an-nounced. Heavy fightjiig took place at the Capo-silo Capo-silo bridgehead, during which tho Austro-Gcrmans, Austro-Gcrmans, after temporary success, were counter-attacked by the Italians and driven off. They repeated Ihelr attack with frequent successive waves of massed troops, bul were able to reach only part of the defenses, from which they eventually eventual-ly were evpelicd by the Italians. The enemy en-emy opera I Ions were favored by e.veep-lional e.veep-lional weather, which has caused the water wa-ter in tiie Inundated regions to reach an extremely low mark. Between the Brenta and Piavo rivers, where tho greater AuHtro-German forces are being massed, under command of i Jeneral von Below in the west orn and General Kiomatin in tlie eastern sector, artillery firing- Is particularly active. |