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Show I FULL RETREAT OF I AUSTRIAN FORCE Milan, Aug. 30. The AuBtrians are H II in full retreat at two points. One is H ill in the Val Surgano, where they are Hji blowing up bridges and viaducts and destroying all roads and railways as M 11 they retire. The other Is in the H ll region of the upper Isonzo, where the Hijl Italian Aliplni Ib wresting an impor- Hfl tant mountain summit from the Aus- H J trlan grip. H i The latest official reports show that Hi the Italians are now well advanced Hli beyond Plezzo and are attacking the 1 summit of Mone Rombon, 6000 feet H!j high, which overlooks the valley of IJJ the Coritenza, a tributary of the Ison- Hljl zot aod also commands the highway jj that culminates in Predil pass at a '11 height of 3500 feet and thenco de- j I scends Into the Zebach valley, when Hl the Italians captured positions about H il a week ago. HEjl The Austrians are in a precarious H position at Tarvis, as well as at Tol- T mino and Gorlzla, not to mention the j I strong series of defenses lost of Val H Sugano. H Vienna. Aug. 30, via London, 7:25 Hl p. m. The following official state- j ment was given out by tho Austrian K I war office tonight: H "Italian theatre of war' Yesterday H 8 tne enemy maintained an artillery M firo of intermittent Btrength along the H fronts in the coastal district. Hostile H tj attacks against several points were fj repulsed. In the Carinthian and H i Tyrolean frontier districts tho sltua- , tion is unchanged. |