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Show ITALIANS ADVANCE ON M TRENT CAPTURE HEIGHTS OF CALLO AND ARE IN. STRIKING DISTANCE DIS-TANCE OF OBJECTIVE. Germans Strike Hard Blow on French Front, But Frenchmen Retake Lost Ground. Russians Still Pressing Turks. London. The Italians, after weeks of hammering at the Austrian positions posi-tions with their big guns, have captured cap-tured the mountainous region of Cal-lo Cal-lo (Collo), in the Sugana valley, and also have occupied the towns of Roncegno and Itonchi. By their new acquisition of territory, ter-ritory, the Italians now are almost within striking distance of one of their chief objectives of the war the city of Trent -which lies, -protectee? on the norih, east and south Iby a line of forts, fifteen miles west . of the captured region. , ' '.Again there has been vicious fight ing in the Artois region of France, in Champagne, and along 'both banks of the Meuse above Dun. To the east of Souchez, after a heavy bombardment, bombard-ment, the Germans attacked and captured cap-tured 800 meters of French trenches and took seven officers and 319 men prisoners. So powerful was the attack that the Germans, seven 'battalions strong, not alone occupied first line trenches, 'hut . at -points gained access to some oi the communicating trenches. The French, 'by a- counterattack, it is ofificially announced by Paris, succeeded suc-ceeded in driving out the Germans from all but a few of these positions, the Germans suffering heavy casualties. casual-ties. At Brabant-sur-Mause the G-ennans also ibroke into the French trenches, but here again they were driven out and Iback to their original positions. There is no change in the situation along the front in Russia and Ga-licla. Ga-licla. The Russians are still pressing the Turks 'hard in Armenia, Constantinople, Constanti-nople, in its first official statement concerning the reverse to the Turkish Turk-ish arms at Erzerum, says the retirement retire-ment to positions west of the fortress took place after the Turks had destroyed de-stroyed positions to the east of Erzerum and also fifty old cannon, which they could not take with them. Denial is made that the Russians captured cap-tured 1,000 cannon and 80,000 prisoners. |
