Show T IANS DRIVEN BACK A K NINETY MILES f 1 FIERCEST THRUST COUNTER OF f. f WAR R PROVE FUTILE ITALIANS TAKING KING MANY P PRISONERS er at the Gates f a ff Are Knocking of of Apparent- Apparent r Riga with the Russians t IY Unable to Stem Stern the Advance of tho the Attacking London Along the whole hole mlle 00 w t r mt ont of or ti the new Italian drive two reeks old on Sunday Sun a the Austrians Austrian 7 la launched some of the fiercest thrusts r of f th the war var Ever Everywhere th they r were wele 1 Beaten eaten ofT off Not a foot of ground wu was Moreover the b by them Italians plowed ahead appreciably in hundreds hun liun- some Orne OID sectors taking additional of prisoners and adding to their fluge ge booty Monte San Gabriele Gabriel bathed in the Italian surrounded Is fire e and almost not riot expected to hold out much longer Slowly 19 1 the last remaining defense forks Yorks of this Uis great greut strategic height J re crumbling to hits bits virtual virtual- g rhe fhe Germans are knocking knoch J tl nt at it the gates of or Riga with the Rui nu Ru Ens- i Ians apparently iy unable to withstand Jo y- y their advance V The great Baltic Baltic port head of the f rail vay running to Petrograd is beset X nf three sides by hy the enemy enem enemy On on on the j invest vest st in thee the Lake Lale Bahit Babit region on the I f southwest near and on the thet t v southeast along the eastern bank of t Drum river a scant fifteen miles distant from the cit city the capture of oC Riga iga would be e of great strategic value to the Gerns Ger Ger- ans ns in controlling the entrance to f the t e Gulf of Finland at the head of oC Wl which ICh stands Petrograd It would woul not ue p necessarily place the capital in jeo jeo- pard tI |