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Show Italians Driving - Ahead i Troops Attack All Alone River and Gain II Ground. II BREAK ENEMY LINE . II Positions Occupied By II the Austrians Are II Divided. II LONDON, June 20 By counter -attacking all along the Piave the Italians have gained further ground on the Montello in the northern sector of the river front, and also have made headway head-way southeast of this ride, says the Evening Standard today. The Austrians had been occupying a narrow strip alons the river bank. The Kalians drove in the Austrian line and established themselves on the bank of the Piave below Salctto (about 18 miles from the Adriatic). Through the reaching of the river here, the positions pos-itions occupied by the Austrians have been divided. Accurate Italian Aim The exactitude of the Italian artillery artil-lery rejoinder to the enemy fire not only had the effect of spoiling the effectiveness ef-fectiveness of the Austrian artillery aim but was responsible for the heavy losses which are known to have been in:lictcd upon the attacking forces. The Italian machine gun fire likewise produced marked effect whenever the Austrian Infantry moved forward accentuating ac-centuating the decimation In the ranita caused by the large gun. Correspondent Talks to Prisoner During his tour the war correspondent correspond-ent talked with an Austrian prisoner, a member of a manufacturing firm with offices In all the great world centers, cen-ters, including New York. "I have been fighting for forty months," said this man, "first on the Russian front where I had an easy time and now here where the Italians are making things too hot for us. There Is no food for the people of Austria and next to none for the army. I had but a few pieces of bread and potatoes before the fight and since the fight began 1 have had none. Army Cannot Last "The army cannot last more than s couple of months at the best. There are no good officers left. We have ) plenty of ammunition but no one to use it properly.'" , n ? The Italian losses were comparatively compara-tively small while to the known Austrian Aus-trian losses will have to be added the -Bj many Austrian dead which still encumber en-cumber the wooded mountainsides. It Is still too earl to predict that the Austrian will not come back with a further effort but lt is clear that in ;; ! their so far futile push they underestimated under-estimated the Italians, both as regards their morale and general fighting er-ficieucy. er-ficieucy. ji 00 |