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Show oo ITALIANS BREAK . UP BIGASSAULT Austrians' Attempt to Force Defenses by Tonalo Pass Are a Failure. RoME. June 14 The statement issued is-sued by the Italian war department today to-day follows: "In the early hours yesterday after an intense and extended artillery preparation pre-paration the enemy attempted to force tho defenses of Tonalopass by launch -1 ing an infantry attack against Cady summit and tho Monticello ridge, im-I im-I mediately north and south of an important im-portant road. Owing to the firm resistance re-sistance of our troops, the assault was broken up on our advanced line3. Later, Lat-er, our infantry counter-attacks and the deadly concentration of our artillery artil-lery fire arrested th enemy and definitely def-initely drove him back. "An enemy attack again was ats tempted north of the road between 9 p. m. and 11 p. m. but was promptly crushed by our barrage fire The losses loss-es of the enemy, particularly his supports, sup-ports, were very heavy Wo captured 130 prisoners and several machine pnins. One enemv airplane was down-;ed." down-;ed." oo |