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Show PROGRESS OF THE WAR. Italian efforts have resulted in breaking break-ing tho Austrian linos in the mountain regions north of Gorizia and in the capture cap-ture of much of the Bainsizza plateau. East of Monte Santo, the capture of which opened the way to the overrunning overrun-ning of the Bainaizza tableland, is Monte San. Gabriele, which is now said to be invested by tho Romans. The valley between the two mountains drifts northeastward into the Chiapovano valley. val-ley. Through the lesser into the greater valley is one of the main roads of Austrian communication and by means of it the Austro-Hungar-ians tried to manage their retreat in this sector. The road became congested with motor trucks, cannon and mon. This afforded the Italians an opportunity opportun-ity to increase the confusion by shelling shell-ing the retreating forces from Monte Santo and other high ground and by sending scores of airplanes to attack with machine guns. The poet, D'An-nunzio, D'An-nunzio, took part in the a;r attack and was slightly wounded m the left wrist. It remains in doubt whether there was much of a fight for the crest of Monte Santo after it had been blown to pieces by the Italian guns. The Roman soldiers sol-diers swarmed up tho sides of the mountain moun-tain in three columns and met with stiff resistance practically all the way up. But the final dash may have been unopposed. un-opposed. At any rate the Vienna report re-port states that the commanding mountain moun-tain was abandoned during the night. The taking of Monte Santo permitted General Cadorna to operate eastward out of Gorizia and all along the line to the north. After making their way into the valley beyond Monte Santo the Italians were stopped by the fortifications fortifica-tions on Monte San Gabriele and Monte San Daniele. It was necessary for the Austrians to hold these powerful positions po-sitions so as to cover the retreat of men and supplies by the various roads. At the same time they fought stubbornly on the Bainsizza plateau to the north, thus arresting the Roman left flank. In the last week, however, the Italians have pushed across the tableland, have invested the two mountain positions from three sides, have captured an immense im-mense amount of booty, have increased their prisoners to nearly 30,000 and have advanced on the Carso plateau to the southeast of Gorizia. British and Italian Ital-ian monitors assisted the forces' fighting fight-ing on the Carso plateau by approaching approach-ing the Hemiada fortifications, near the sea, and bombarding. them under the direction di-rection of airplanes. The progress of General Cadorna has not betn sensational in the last week, but it has been steady. Austrian resistance re-sistance has grown stouter because the second line of defense is wonderfully strong and has made it possible to realign re-align and reorganize forces while (he Romans have been bringing bring-ing up their artillery. Moreover, More-over, the Austrians have shifted re-enforcements from the eastern front to fill :h the gaps created by the furious fur-ious fighting on their western front. The Italians estimate that the Austrian losses aeady exceed 125,000 men. General von Mackensen, operating on the Rumanian front, should have had a rather easy time of it, for several Russian Rus-sian regiments ran away, leaving the Rumanians and the loyal Russians to face the enemy alone. It is a commentary com-mentary on the weakness of Mackensen Macken-sen 's forces that he is unable to win a decisive strategic point unless the enemy ene-my is disloyal. It was in the Fok-shani Fok-shani area, on the southwestern Rumanian Ru-manian front, that the Russians deserted desert-ed the line and retired for a whole day, thus giving the Austrians, Bulgarians and Turks an easy victory and considerable consider-able territory. The Russians also ran away east of Czernowitz, just north of the Rumanian line. They ambled away eastward while the Austrians plodded after. They stopped when they found it convenient and took up new defensive positions. Since then the Russian provisional government gov-ernment has put the death penalty into force again and Premier Kerensky has announced that any troops refusing to obey orders will be shot. What appears to be a drive on Riga is in process of formation. It has been preceded by a German air raid on the shipping in the Gulf of Riga. The Rus-jsinn Rus-jsinn airmen succeeded in driving off i the enemy after many bombs had been dropped. Actual fighting in the Riga i sector has been of small proportions. General Petain continued his of-j of-j fendve in the Verdun sector. Having -taken Hill ."10-1 west, of the Mouse, to-Igether to-Igether with the twin hills of Lo Mort Homme, and having seized Hill 1 344, east of the Meuye, to-Igether to-Igether with the villages of Samog- neux and Regneville, he pushed his lines forward in front of all of these positions. posi-tions. East of the Meuse his gains were particularly notable and have carried him close to the last range of heights j commanding the Verdun region. Once forced from these eminences the Germans, Ger-mans, in this particular sector, will be back where they were when they began be-gan their drive on Verdun. On the British fronts, at Lens and Vpres, there has been more or less of a lull, although there have been attacks and counter-attacks. The British made some gains in the Ypres sector. The total British casualties during August were 60,373, including 12, SSI killed, of whom 1317 were officers. The submarines increased their toll of ships considerably as compared with the preceding week. The British lost eighteen vessels of more than 1600 tons, as compared with fourteen the week before. |