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Show 5 II Italians Meeting Continued Success and Gaining Ground on Both Wings I I British Advance : Lines East and Northeast of Ypres . German Attack East of Langemarck Repulsed ' Lines Southwest of Lens Advanced Fierce s Fighting Continues Verdun Fight Dying Down Germans Attacking on flf Aisne Front Italy's great effort on the Isonzo front is meeting with j continued success, Rome reports officially and' her troops are i proceeding toward realization of their objectives. Further J ground has been gained on both the northern and southern t j wings, Austrian counter attacks of great severity arc being cl repulsed. The Austrian losses in the first two days of the i m battle are computed unofficially in Italy at 30,000. m The fighting on the Verdun front is dying down. The , M French objectives north of Verdun apparently have been at- tained and except for the capture by the French of a small W fortified position no infantry actions in this sector are re- ic ported. The number of prisoners has reached 7,639. The 0 beB French have also captured 20 cannon and more than 200 ma- grcc chine guns. lcrto The Germans continued their attacks on the Aisne front a"dlSfifc last night but met with no better fortune than heretofore. Seville; Sev-ille; eral assaults near Laffaux mill, Ailles and Cerny were re-To re-To i pulsed. The Germans are continuing vigorously and successfully ,-hicH their new offensive on the extreme northern end of the Rus- i(Jdc sian front. Notwithstanding the difficulties of the ground hoofi over which they are attacking, they have made substantial Hvct gains along the Gulf of Riga. The official report from Petro- ncrc-i grad shows a Russian withdrawal of about five miles along the MjS coast in the direction of Riga. Berlin gives few details of this odayj 9 fighting and it is not yet clear whether the Germans have com- KS 'I I mitted themselves to a sustained offensive of the north. J t tg ln; ROME, Aug. 23. Furious fighting continues on the Uod Isonzo front. The war office announces further gains for the re "oil Italians on both the northern and southern wings. 'vcmJ e numDer f prisoners taken is more than 1 6,000. JakeS Austrian counter attacks of redoubted intensity are being coid?jM beaten back by the Italians. Following is thcofficial announcement: "Esflf ' te ourtn tne DattIe on the Julian front we torct-- again made considerable progress on the northern wing of the rienrj j j line and obtained new successes on the southern wing. The icilcj enemy is reacting strongly against our pressure and redoubling en ' his counter offensives. Our troops are repulsing his counter nesj attacks from the positions captured and are gallantly proceed- ing toward realization of their objectives." : you at an " more UDINE, Italy, Aug. 23. Enemy loss s during the first soma two days in the new Italian advance are calculated at 30,000 :hcti in killed, wounded and prisoners, in in . ?SS"r f . LONDON, Aug. 23. The British have advanced their tK ! "nes southwest of Lens, the war announces. An attack east m o of Langemarck was repulsed. British posts in the neighbor- -oMcd ood Lombaertzyde, Belgium, were raided by the Germans. wS French Gain Footing omenj ; 'BERLIN, via London, Aug. 23. In thatl tnc fi6hting yesterday in the region of ng lm ' Verdun the German general headquar-m headquar-m ' iers 5tafl" toa-' reports the French gained a footing only in a German foremost trencli on a small front to tne TVOst of tnc Vachcrauville-Beau- mont road. I M . LONDON, Au. 23. "In the past; tf three days the entente allies on the western front have taken 25,000 prisoners pris-oners and since July 31 thoy havo taken 32,000 prisoners," said Major '; General Frederick B. Maurice, chief director of the ivar intelligence ofllce, in his weekly talk with the Associated AMSTERDAM, Aug. 23. British "warships last evening bombarded the Gorman submarine base at the Belgian Bel-gian port of Zeebrugge, according to the frontier correspondent of the Tclcgraaf. ; ' no |