Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-09-24 | Page 2 | Italians Make Gains on the Julian Front

Ills MAKE GAINS Of! THE JOLUpOHT Austrians Attack on Bain-sizza Bain-sizza Plateau After Violent Vio-lent Artillery Preparation, Prepara-tion, but Are Beaten. LONDON, Sept. 23. A British deatroyor has been torpedoed and Bunk by a German submarine in the approaches to the channel, according ac-cording to an admiralty announcement. announce-ment. There wore fifty survivors. Genrat Cadorna, in his report on operations opera-tions in tiie rrglon northeast of Gorizia, chronicles tho repulse of additional Aust.ro-Hiing.nrl.-tn attacks on the Ba-lnslzza pla-tea. pla-tea. Tn the rcsion of Monte Marmolado, northwest of Trent, the Italians, after exploding ex-ploding a mine, captured two advanced positions from the Austro-Hunsarlans. Having captured the JacohHtadt bridgehead, bridge-head, south of .Riga, and foreed the Rus-Bians Rus-Bians to retire to the right hank of the Ttvina for noma distance north ami south of the bridgehead, the Germans have halted halt-ed their advance here. Petrograd reports the Russians entrenched on the right hank of the Dvina and bombarding the Germans in their new positions. Toward Riga tho Russians Saturday drove back German advance guards near Rudna. In none of the battle areas of Europe has there been any marked activity in the last twenty-four hours. A momentary lull appears to have settled upon the fighting fight-ing operations In Flanders, on the Aisne and at Verdun, and in the region along tho Isonzo. . Attack in Vain. Crown Prince Kuppreeht of Bavaria, finding his efforts to dislodge the British from their recent gains in the Ypres Kallent ineffectual, has ceased his infantry infan-try attacks and resorted to artillery. The British are resting after their effort of Thursday, having gained all but a few minor posts of the objectives desired, and having taken C 2 1 1! prisoners, but their big guns still hammer the German positions and their aviators harass the airdromes, dumps, cantonments and other military points behind the German lines. Northeast North-east of Gouzeaucourt, between Arras and St. Quentin, the British carried a successful suc-cessful raid into tho German trenches. On the rest of the western front the . French and Germans have bten content to bombard each other. The artillery activity ac-tivity is reported violent along the Aisne front and northwest of Verdun in the re- ; gion of hill 3i4. Berlin reports reconnoitring recon-noitring engagements on this portion of '. the front, but no action of moment.