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Show ITALIAN BIG GUIS POUND -THE TEUTONS Fire of the Romans Powerfully. Centered jn roints Behind the Enemy Lines; 2600 Prisoners, Six Guns and 100 Machine Guns Captured in Battle. VIENNA ADMITS SEVERE DEFEAT British Airmen Drop Bombs With Good Effect Ef-fect and Engage the Germans in Aerial Combats With Success; Suc-cess; French Troops Win in Patrol Encounter. En-counter. ROME. Jan. 30. More than 2600 prisoners pris-oners have been taken by the Italians In their successful attaekH upon the Austrian Aus-trian lines on the Asiago plateau, the war office announced today. Six guns itnd 100 machine guns also have been captured. The Austrians have been bombarding with extreme vlolonce the positions captured cap-tured by the Italians. The Italian firs his been powerfully centered on points behind the enemy lines. Extremely heavy losses were suffered by the Austrians, -two of (heir divisions i being ulmost completely wiped out. 1 ,' The statement reads: Our gallant troops In the plateau zone of the army successfully crowned ! yesterday the action begun on tht eastern Asiago plateau on Sunday by wresting from the enemy his positions posi-tions I to the west of the Franzela valley. j Col del Rosso and Col Pechele, ! which are on the descent toward the western edge of tho valley, having I been taken on Monday and since then held with valor, tho enemy In the region of Sasso Rosso was hard pressed, and, his numerous counterattacks counter-attacks boing repulsed with the bayonet, bayo-net, the success was yesterday extended ex-tended by the capture of Monte di Valla Bolla. , The enemy suffered heavy losses and two of his divisions were nearly completely destroyed. The war booty raptured has not yet been completely specified, but includes so far more l ban lt'0 officers and 2500 men, six guns of various caliber, about loo machine guns, very numerous trench mortars, several thousand rifles and a very large quantity of ammunition and war materials of all kinds. The reaction of tile hostile artillery artil-lery on the positions taken was violent. vio-lent. Our fire was ra-pidly and powerfully pow-erfully concentrated on trie moat distant dis-tant objectives. The enemy aircraft attempted many reconnolterinc: and offensive actions, but were effectively mej by our machines ma-chines and anti-aircraft fire, which during two days accounted for seventeen seven-teen enemy machines. |