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Show AUSTRIANS ARE CHECKED AT ALL POINTS BY ROMANS ROM I-;. June l.--rt;.llan forces vesterdav' vester-dav' ''out inud their counter-offensive on thr- I'hivr rivr-i trout in the rqion of Fa-.ue Fa-.ue and Zf-nson and painwl further ti round from ill- A u:u ro-1 1 un.ua ria i is. the Ii a u wnv ofin'e announced tnda y. "Kur the tirst time," the statement ; nays., "our uinnen and those of our allies al-lies had a.s their companions, daring A mfjric;i n pilot s, who. a.s soon as they arrived at the front, wished to participate in the battle." A ust ro - I Inns'' rian pressure con tinned strongly on the Montello yesterday, the war office announces, but everywhere the luvrt.'jcrs were checked and the Italians, con nter-attackln. refined ground. The Austro- H unsarians launched five heavy attacks on tiie Italian lines at Los-son, Los-son, tu t lie west of San I ona di Plave. Kxhauated hy their exceptionally heavy losi-os, the attackers were forced to retire re-tire in the face of the Italian resistance. The statement issued by the Italian war oftiee s;iys: On t lie Montello yesterday the pressure pres-sure of t he enemy continued strongly, strong-ly, but everywhere he was held by our troops, who counter-attacking, regained ground. Advances attempted attempt-ed bv the enemy toward the west and south animated the struggle, particularly particu-larly east of the Case-Gheller-Bavaria lino nnd in the vicinity of the Nervosa Ner-vosa station. The Pisa brigade and the 29th and 30th regi ments, advancing with admirable ad-mirable elan, captured 400 prisoners and a number of machine guns. They wrested intact from the enemy two of our batteries' of medium caliber, which were promptly put into action against the enemy. On the Piave the struggle was concentrated con-centrated in some sectors. West of Oa ndelu a hostile attack was completely com-pletely repulsed. More lo the south, in front of Fa-gare Fa-gare and Zenson, our counter-offensive action began on the night of June 19-20 has continued irresistibly and has taken us on the positions 'which we held the day before. The enemy suffered losses equal to his strenuous resistance. Several hundred prisoners remained In our I hands. ! In the area west of San Dona di i Piave the enemy attempted a strong i action against Losson (northeast of Meolo). At first he was arrested by our lire. He renewed his attacks four times in vain, until, exhausted by the i exceptionally heavy losses suffered, he was forced to yield in the face of the dauntless- valor of the Sardinians, of the Sassari brigade, the 151st and 152nd regiments, which were valiantly valiant-ly helped by the Eleventh battalion of the 209th infantry, the Blsagno brigade and by a Bersaglieri cyclist column. North of Cortellazzo (at the mouth of the Plave) parties of sailors and Bersaglieri daringly broke into the enemy's lines, capturing 200 prisoners, prison-ers, afterward firmly holding the positions. po-sitions. At Cavazuccherina (at the eastern end of the swamp region near the coast) we extended our bridgehead. The aviators, in spite of adverse atmospheric at-mospheric conditions, carried out their usual activity. Enemy machines were brought down. For the first time, our airmen and those of our allies had as their companions com-panions daring American pilots, who, as soon as they arrived at the front, expressed a desire to participate in the battle. The valiant Major Darratta, who had won his thirty-fourth victory, did not return the 19th instant from an heroic war flight. |