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Show Italian Troops Drive the Invaders to the Left Bank of the River by "Perfect Maneuvering and Irresistible Elan.5' VIENNA REPORT ADMITS DEFEAT French Party Carries Out Brilliant Raid Into Enemy Lines; Americans Amer-icans Take Prisoners in V o s g e s Region. PAHIS, July 7. (Havas Agency.) Germany will send three army corps to tie aid of Austria, according accord-ing to a Kome dispatch to the Temps. ROME, July 7. The Italian official statement today reads: Between tne Sile and the Piave our troops, having reached with perfect maneuvering and irresistible elan the right bank of the new Piave and driven the enemy to the other side of the river, now are fortifying themselves them-selves on the vast tract of ground recaptured, re-captured, every yard of which shows traces of the epic struggle and furnishes fur-nishes proof that the enemy's losses were much higher than he had forr.- ' seen. , The Twenty-third army corps, having hav-ing carried out the difficult operation victoriously, has added new laurels to its glory. The Fourth Infantry division di-vision particularly distinguished itself. it-self. The bearing of the troops was splendid. The infantry, among whom were a marine regiment and parties of the royal customs guard, fought with ardor. The artillery of the army corps and the royal navy group contributed con-tributed notably to the success wtth its very effective fire. Our own and tbo allied airplanes and those of the .Italian royal navy participated with unusual daring. Special honor for the great valor shown is due the Thirty-third sapper battalion of engineers. On the Asiago plateau a French party carried out a brilliant raid into the enemy lines at Zocchi, overcoming overcom-ing the garrisons in a lively struggle strug-gle and capturing two officers, sixty-four sixty-four of other ranks and two machine guns. Between the Frenzela valley and the Brenta the enemy three times attempted to attack our position on the Corone. lie was sanguinarily repulsed. AMERICAN TROOPS MAKE RAID AND TAKE PRISONERS PA.RI, July 7. Amorican troops KU-tioncd KU-tioncd in a sector of the Vosges region carried out a raid last night, In which prisoners were taken, today's Freiuh war office Ktatemcn ts showa. With the exception of artillery actions in tho region east of the Viller.s-CottereLs forest, between the Aisne and the IWarnT, the nisht. wa quiet. The slatcment roads: There were artillery actions Ronl.h of the Aisne, in the region of Tjon- pont and Corey. American troops carried out a raid in the V o:ges, b ri n n g ba c k p r i s - onera. The niht was quiet on the remainder remain-der of the front. VIENNA ADMITS FALLING BACK OF THE AUSTRIAN S VJKN'is A, July 7, ia London. ThA text of I lie war office statement tod.j y reads: As the delta of the PLtve eould nol j have been held without heavy iacri-tlco, iacri-tlco, we have withdrawn our troop; v which were stationed there to thn dyke positions on the eastern b;i -ik of the main branch. Thiw opera! ,0- was carried out during the ni'hi. oi July 5-(J. The enemy felt his wjiy at midday yesterday a.s far ys the rj .-r. East, of Monte J'ertiou. we drove back strong Iialinn attacks ir sitr-quinary sitr-quinary hand-to-hand fi Editing:. In Albania, Kreuch aud ItaJian troops attacked our mountain poj..'' lions between Pevolin and Osura. Ir. the ciiirso of -he .Killing the cn- (v-ofciiuuecl oa "Pago 'IVo.) AUSTRIAN FORCES CONTINUE RETREAT (Continued from Page One.) emy succeeded in obtaining advantages advan-tages at two points, which, however, again were immediately wrested from him by a counter-attack. |