Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-17 | Page 1 | Italians Beat Back Austrians

ITALIANS BEAT BACK AUSTRIANS Violent Artillery Fire and Infantry In-fantry Attack in Adige Yalley Repulsed. ENEMY PUT TO FLIGHT Intense Fighting on Carso Pateau Austrians Stopped by Rapid Fire Retreat With Heavy Loss. Rome, Nov. 1G, via Paris, Nov. 17. 12:05 a. m. Tho following official statement was issued today at the headquarters of tho Italian general staff: "In the Adige valley during the morning of the 14th we enlarged and straightened the position we occupy on the steep hill which slopes down from Zugna Tora toward Rovereto on the left bank of the Leno de- Vallersa Torrent. Tho enemy immediately opened a violent artillery fire from Monte Ghella and launched an Infantry Infan-try attack, but was repulsed. In the Padola valley enemy detachments trying to approach our positions were beaten off leaving a number of prisoners pris-oners In our hands. "In tho Fella valley one of our detachments de-tachments mot enemy troops near Lu-sora Lu-sora which were attacked and dispersed, dis-persed, the enemy abandoning rifles and muuitlons in his flight "On the Carso plateau yesterday there was an intense artillery duel The enemy's artillery fired all day on the positions recently occupied by ua, without preventing our reinforcements reinforce-ments from coming up. In the Monte San Michele zone tho enomy made two violent successive attacks in force on our line but each time was stopped by the rapid and accurate fire of our artillery and finally had to retreat with heavy loss."