Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-22 | Page 12 | Vienna Report Tells of Making Heroic Defense

and on the Montello increased to especial violence. Field Marshal Ze-giger's Ze-giger's divisions in their hastily constructed con-structed trenches destroyed waves of enemy storming troops. Elsewhere our soldiers stood their ground in the hand-to-hand fighting. On a front of twelve kilometers the enemy concentrated thrusting troops amounting to' eight regiments in order to shake the wall formed by our brave men. The tremendous consumption of their power forced the Italians to throw reserves after reserves into the battle. Apart from their sanguinary losses, the number of prisoners also increases daily. Thirty-two hundred prisoners were captured on the last fighting day but one on the Montello alone. Of these, 2000 were taken by a single Hungarian infantry regiment. regi-ment. The Hungarian regiments, Austrian reserves and Hungarian Honveds have added a new and honorable page to their glorious history as attackers, as well as defenders, in hot engagements which have continued day and night. On the mountain front artillery duels prevailed yesterday. VIENNA REPORT TELLS OF MAKING HEROIC DEFENSE A- . , . . .. ... VIENNA, June 21. via London. The Austrian official communication issued today says: Yesterday the enemy continued his attacks with undiminished violence to wrest from us the successes we' won west of the Piave. His efforts again were vain. All his assaults were broken down before the unflinching unflinch-ing resistance of our heroic troops. The struggle on the Carso plateau