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Show fiUuHiIm OMII U j B : Italians Have Driven the Ene- my Back Russians Con- tinue to Make Gains. jj Rome, June 2G. 8 p. m. Two Aus- trlan transports have been sunk in the harbor of Durazzo by the Italians. The transports were loaded with troops, arms and ammunition. J I Paris, June 26. Turning to the of- fenslve in Trevino, and across the b or- , der In Italy, where they were driven j recently by the Austrians, the Italians j havo forced tho Austrians to a general 1 retreat along tho entire front. Vienna admits a withdrawal of the 1 Austrian forces between tho Brenta B and Etsch rlvora, a maneuver which H It is declared was mado to guard their 1 full freedom of action. The Russians In Bukowina havo g mado further progress against the Austro-IIungariaus in the region of Klmpolung, but in the operations to the north of Kuty the Austrians have repulsed the Russian attacks, inflicting inflict-ing heavy casualties upon the invaders, invad-ers, according to Vienna. In Gallcla, the Russians In the region re-gion of Buczacz have at laBt broken the deadlock and thrown their Cossacks Cos-sacks across the Dnelster and occupied occu-pied the villages of Slekerghine and Petruve. Heavy fighting continues In Volhy-ma, Volhy-ma, especially around Sokul, to the north of Lutsk. Here Vienna says the Germans have stormed Russian positions over a front of about three thousand meters and held the captured captur-ed positions against all counter-at tacks. Along the Styr from Kolki to -Sokul the Germans still are bombarding bom-barding the Russian positions, while around Linewka, on the Stokhod river, riv-er, they have launched repeated infantry in-fantry attacks in mass formations which Petrograd asserts were all repulsed. re-pulsed. In tho region north of tho Pripet marshes to as far as Jacobstadt there have been intense bombardments of Russian positions by the Germans and several infantry attacks, which the Russian war office says were put down by the Russian fire. Since Sundayi night, when the French recaptured German positions between tho Fumin and Chenois woods, northeast of Verdun, and re-nulsed. re-nulsed. German attack west of Thiau- mont, only artillery actions havo taken tak-en place. Theso have diminished. The British on their part of the French and Belgian line have carried out a number of successful attacks and also have bombarded with considerable effect ef-fect German positions in various sectors. |
