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Show 1 , ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS IN NORTHERN IT ALLY, Saturday, Dec. Hl C 8. The battle of Asiago is virtual- ly suspended -with the enemy checked, mMM if not defeated. In his main design of breaking through to the Brenta val-mmm val-mmm ley and the plain a few miles below, although he succeeded in adrancing his lines a short distance when the MmM Italians fell back to the new post- J tions. These positions, guarding the Fren. H zola and Gadena pass have successful MmM ly resisted all enemy efforts, and the j Italians on the step heights on each side of the passes rain down artillery MMM and rifle fire and release huge boul- ders every time the enemy forces MMM try to get through. This has continued until the Italians seem reasonably assured of holding MMM the passes and compelling the enemy MMMt to look for another line of approach. An exceptionally large air raid, was MMM carried out yesterday with a fleet or MMM 150 airplanes, including Italian light 1 and heavy squadrons. The huge fleet flew low, scattering more than 2,000 MMw bombs, which caused atonsive dam age in the northern theater where 1 the enemy is assembling forces and MMt supplies. Troop trains were scatter- ed, railway depots destroyed and mu. nition supplies blown up. Large flrea marked the route of the raiders, indicating indi-cating the extent of the destruction. |