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Show ITALIANS ENTER CITY AFTER SEVERE AUSTRIAN DEFENSE RfiMi;, net. Jt.-- Italian troops pnnlilng northward lit Albania enl-M-ed the city of Klbiir.a u on Mondny after cnmhlng rtub-born rtub-born A u'd in 1 1 uneji rln n rednl nine, the lliilhin war office m n nouneei I todny. The Italians are continuing tludr adviiuco. The text of the id ji I nine n I rniih; "All a nla : On Huudn v, m f t cr enemy (overing parties had b"en repulsed jtnd nnnieroiiM prisoner Ink en, rux of our columtui occupied the hrlglita ciih! of Mu- rlh in ms. "tut Monday after iriudiing the, iluh-borri iluh-borri renlMtam e of ennny rein gicudfi we. entered the i 11 of Klhiirau. Mir advance ad-vance Is t ool I mil t fr. " "A Tier dl-.pn sing the enemv on (lie heigh In not I h w e l of I he I ,y u.dma rlvr i , we continued our march on to Kavaya, coming again in contact with the enemy at Gramshl." Elbasan is one of the chief towns in southern Albania, and before the war had a population estimated at 15,000. It has numerous mosques and is the seat of a Greek bishop. Kavaya is twelve miles northwest of Gramshi and eleven miles southeast of the Adriatic seaport of Durazzo, which recently was bombarded i by allied warships. |