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Show .AUSTRIA CLAIMS GREATJICTORY War Office Announces Complete Com-plete Repulse of Italians in 16 Days Offensive. MIGHTY FORCES MEET Thirteen Thousand Unwound- ed Men Captured in Most Furious Fighting. LONDON, May 28, 7:13 a. m. The complete repulse of all Italian attacks after most furious fighting is claimed in an official statement issued by the Austrian war office on Sunday. The statement also asserts that more than 13,000 unwounded Italians have been captured In the sixteen days of the Italian offensive. The text of the announcement follows: fol-lows: "On the Carso plateau tho enemy yesterday again concentrated mighty masses for an assault At Fajtl and near Castngnavizza the fighting came to a standstill before our foremost trenches. "Between Jamlano and the sea the fighting was severe and several heights changed hands rapidly during the day. Our defenses remained unbroken. un-broken. Tho Honved regiments repulsed re-pulsed seventeen attacks In forty-eight forty-eight hours, besides thrice storming a height Artillery Lieutenant Archduke Arch-duke Leopold, with a handful of gunners, gun-ners, joined an infantry regiment in a front lino assault and brought back two machine guns. "The prisoners brought in on the Carso plateau since May 23 now number num-ber 250 officers and more than 7000 men. Altogether, since the beginning of the battle moro than 13,000 unwounded un-wounded Italians have been captured." oo |