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Show BRITISH QUICKLY RECOVER POSITION Germans Succeed in Gaining Foothold at One Place in Haig's Line, but Their Occupation Occu-pation Is Temporary. ! FRENCH REPULSE NIGHT ATTACKS I s , ; Austrians Fail Completely Com-pletely in Assaults Upon Up-on Monte Corno; Lon- don Report on Losses Shows Slight Increase. By International News Service. LONDON, May I t. The guns are pounding on, but the infantry is mark- ing time the same story has to be told of the last twenty-four hours' situation ji . in the west. Nor has anything exciting excit-ing come to pass on the Austro-Italian theater. The fact that it was exactly two years ago today that the Austrians struck their great blow in the Tren-tino, Tren-tino, which was later vitiated by Bru-si Bru-si luff's drive into Galicia, has aroused strong expectation' with regard to the Italian mountain front, but nothing beyond local enterprise and artillery j d;jels is recorded by the war office. two points on the British front the Germans did make an infantry stir : today. Around Morlancourt, south of Albert :nid north of Kemmel, in Flanders,' In the Albert sector the attackers succeeded suc-ceeded in penetrating the British advanced ad-vanced lines at one point. Elsewhere they wore beaten off. Moreover, the British rapidly organized a counter-attack and restored their lines where it had been temporarily dented. .' Above Kenimel the Germans tried to ; roako headway toward- Klein Vier-: Vier-: straate, but their attempts were completely com-pletely frustrated by the French, who hold that segment of the British line southwest of Ypres. ' Field Marshal Haig's day report told of German artillery bombardments in the Somme and Ancre sectors. Tonight's To-night's statement records no cannon--ading. RAIDS ON THE FRENCH FRONT. """"On the French front before Amiens there were only raids. The German guns were active last night in the Champagne and Vosges. Berlin's night report told of a "successful "suc-cessful local thrust" into English positions posi-tions north of the Somme, on the Cor-.bie-Brayroad, east of Amiens, d Some was able to report the frustration frustra-tion of new Austrian attempts to regain re-gain the important Monte Corno sura-. sura-. Init, as well as of various local attacks in other sectors. The gunfire is grow-tutr grow-tutr 'n intensity along the whole Austro- -..'uVtalian battle line. Eleven Austrian airplanes were bagged by the Italian and British aircraft, air-craft, effectively co-operating with the Italian artillery. |