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Show I I ALLIES ATTACK I I MOUNTAIN FRONT M K Capture Monte di Valbella I Imt After Bitter Struggle and I B Take 809 Prisoners. IB ROME, June 30. Italian forces sup- rm V ported by allied troops attacked Aus- i.1! H tro-Hungarian positions on the Italian V'M ' mm niauntain front Saturday and captured lM l H Monte di Val Bella after a bitter strug- fSi' H gle. The Italian war offices announces fmj jB more than S09 Austro-Hungarians J were taken prisoner. 'jmlt 1 VW Strong enemy counter-attacks S! IB throughout the day and night Tvere re- 'Mf mt pulsed by the fire of the Italian in fan - mli I W tr' artillery and machine fiuns. 'wiiv. Vwf Tho -ext of the oflc'al statement Wfir W "0n tllQ AsiaS Plateau, where our 'm !' , heroic resistance on June 11 crushed mil ( KL lho inlPctus of preponderant enemy 'H He forces and where in daily acts of brav- -9 M cry Italian troops have become united m) ! Wf 5n action and Slory with the British 9 JK and French allies fighting began anew, .fl "At dawn our troops sustained by an 'S intense artillery fire and supported by .9 sorties resolutely carried out by their 9 H allies attacked Monte di Val Bella and jH succeeded, after a bitter struggle, in v9 H wresting it from the enemy during the j9 day and at night large masses were m launched to counter-attack and to .fl slaughter, but were repulsed by our .'B' H infantry and decimated by concen-Hj concen-Hj trations of artillery and machine gun ;)H IB fire from airplanes The position car- ?jH B r'ed was victoriously held by u0. jMM. B "Twenty-one eneaiy officers and 7SS fjH B soldiers of other ranks belonging to H MM four different divisions were made H prisoner. Cannon, trench mortars and numerous machine guns were captur- mm H ed. Further east between the Frenzeia yH J H valley and the Brenta river, one of our ftH B. parties took by assault a well -fortified B B observation point on the southern uB B slopes of Sasso Rosso, capturing two jB B ofHccrs and thirty-one men. IMWm B "On the remainder of our front our JB Wk artillery carried out effective and har- IBi Jassing bombardments. At Capo Silcs Blf B patrol operations brought us some Bh Kprisoners. In the Lgarina and Sugana jBI Bvalleys enemy railway establishments IHu Bwerc bombarded by our airmen." rjVlif H German Gunners Active flBrr ' B LONDON, June 30. German gun- nmV Mm ners showed great activity this morn- 1B , Wff- inS aginst the new British positions BTr i flu cast of Nieppe forest, on the Flanders WmI Iflt rontt the war offce announced today. HI Bf Hostile artillery also bombarded Brit- B(j ISU Psitions in the Albert sector. A Bfl mi' German attack on a British post near B t Br Merris today was repulsed after sharp I Ht: e text communication I "Early this morning the enemy at- H IK tacked one of our posts in the neigh- I Sk borhood of Morris, but was- repulsed I i mm ni-ter sharp fighting. H a IB "We captured a few prisoners during Hi B tbe night jn patrol encounters on dif-fll dif-fll B ferent parts of the front. Hlj B "The hostile artillery developed con-HJ con-HJ B siderable activity early this morning my B against our positions east of Nieppe I forest. The enemy's artillery "has been Hi ft actlye also during the night in the Al- II B ert sector, north of the Scarpe and Ml mk near FestuberL" |