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Show OFFENSIVE BEGUN : fflf ALIB FORCES ROMANS COUNTER FIERCELY ON FOE, HALTING TEUTONS AT ALL POINTS IN MOUNTAINS. Field Manual Haig Shifts Attacks to South and Begins Battle in St. Quentin Region: Believed Germans Ger-mans Seeking Verdun. London. In I lie face of tremendous pressure tin; Italians have held mi tlie 1 1 1 1 1 r i r ; 1 1 1 1 frnnt licl ween tin1 I'.ronta mill I'lavo livers, when- the Teutons hit trying to break through to take Diaz's line in lln' rear. Four succcs-Hive succcs-Hive attacks hy Hie iinny of General Krolinlln, which operates on lliis see-tor, see-tor, were beaten olT I)' Hit; Italians. I'.crlin was unable to announce any new progress In Its Tuesday bulletin. The situation continues very critical. Tin; Teutons now have massed the bulk of their heavy guns anil a great number num-ber of reserves for the final onslaught. Only out! great strategic mountain remains to lie taken by them before they tan pour down Into the plain. This Is Monte Grappa, to the east of Aslago. A height of minor importance, Monte Fenera, and the' summit ami southern slopes of Monto Toiuba are still stubbornly defended by the Italians. Ital-ians. Shifting bis offensive to the south, Field Marshal llalg has delivered a series se-ries of attacks against the Germans In the region between St. Quentin and the river Scarp in France, territory on which there lias been little fighting since the spring offensive, when notable nota-ble gains from Arras to Pennine were inatle. Details of the new offensive are not yet at linnd, but the British official communication says that the strike ;hiul satisfactory results and that a number of prisoners and a considerable consider-able quantity of materials have been gained on the roads leading from Ba-paume Ba-paume and Peroune toward the Important Impor-tant railroad junction of Cambral. Mysterious hints from Germany of n larger scale thinning of the eastern front, coincident with a sharp Teuton blow at Verdun and terrific German cannonading on that front, has revived the theory that the crown prince has not abandoned his ambition to redeem himself by taking the big fortress. |