Show S AUSTRIAN POSITIONS IN ATTACKED Official Statement From Vienna Says Italians' Italians S Were Repulsed S By United Press Pres VIENNA Feb 12 Italian Italian troops haye fought their first battIe battle battle bat bat- tle tIe in the Balkans according to toan toan an official announcement from t the e Austrian war office tonight The I Italians In tro force torce atta attacked ked Austrian positions on the heights heights' w west st of ot Tirana ten miles east cast of ot of the Al Albanian Albanian Al- Al Albanian banian port port of Durazzo Duraz o. o t toward ward which an an Austrian army is advancing The The war office claimed the the- repulse of these attacks s. s Austrian aviators aviators aviators' have brought word that a a. large larg Italian force Is concentrated at Durazzo and and it it Is is believed here that a battle is eminent S S Reinforcements Reinforcements- Land r Recent advices to the Austrian war offices have Indicated that Italian reinforcements reinforcements re reinforcements re- re have been l landed at Valona Valona Valona Va Va- lona and moved northward to Dur Durazzo Popular indignation against the decision decision ion Jon to surrender all but southern Albania Albania Al Al- bania to the Austrians is b believed to toh h have ve forced the Italian general staff to reinforce the Albanian expeditionary forces and order an attack against the Austrian invaders Italians Repulsed 4 S S S y The war office reported d no other engagement en engagement en- en I t In the but indicated lively engagements on the Russian and nd Italian f fronts fronts On thet thel east front numerous rous Italian I detachments were repulsed said the official statement The Austrians evacuated several yards yards' of advance adrance trench north northwest west of ot T buthe Russians Russins Who occupied ed this POst position on were ejected again during the nightOn night On the It Italian frontier there Have been lively artillery comb combats ts p particularly tieu i-tieu- on the Isonzo front Near Flitsch Austrian troops conquered the enemy's position and captured three seventy Alpinists as well as three machine guns guzie ri S I |