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Show AUSTRO-GERMANS POUND ITALIAN LINES WITH HEAVIEST GUNS ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS INI NORTHERN ITALY, Friday, Dec. 14.1 (By tho Associated Press.) The enemy has brought a large number of I his heaviest guns to tho Plavo and northern fronts nnd the bombardment! has taken on increased range and violence. vio-lence. Some of tho shells have reached reach-ed Manclno, eight miles back of tne Plave and a few miles iroin the city of Treviso. Four hundred of these monster mon-ster projectiles woro concentrated on one point. General Diaz, the Italian commander-in-chief, sums up the results of the struggle of tho last three days in the north by saying that tho enemy 1 secured an insignificant stretch of I ground at the cost of an immense sacrifice sac-rifice of blood. Although he has obtained ob-tained a lodgment on Monto Splnuccia and Monto fontanel, heretofore hold by the Italians, this docs not represent any appreciable advance toward the plains, which is his main object, but merely a fluctuation of the Italian line, of Avhich Monte Grapha is the dominating barrier. Even below Grapha, formidable defensive works have boon constructed, in event the enemy should reach the plain, but each day of his futile pressure on tue north and east and of successful resistance by tho Italians and their allies strengthen their belief that the enemy will not realize this eventuality. L'jQ AiOoq ueAa -aouj-cq iiuiiuutuiop U. S. Congressman Narrovly Escapes. ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS IN NORTHERN ITALY, Fiday, Dec. 14. By The Associated Press. An army automobile in which Congressman Congress-man Goorgo H. Tinkham of Boston was riding today on a visit to Monte Grapha .on the northern mountain ; front skidded over the mountainside ' and dropped twenty feet. Tho automobile au-tomobile was crushed to pieces ,but the congressman and the other occu. ! pant escaped with bruises, the ohauf i feur being seriously but not dangerously danger-ously injured. I Congressman Tinkham, who fired the first American shot against Austria, Aus-tria, roceived slight injuries. |