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Show AU5TRIANS DRIVEN BUCu HIT! MILES FIERCEST COUNTER-THRUST Op WAR PROVE FUTILE. ITALIANS TAKING MANY PRISONERS. Germans Are Knocking at the Gates of Riga, with the Russians Apparent-ly Apparent-ly Unable to Stem the Advance of the Attacking Teutons. Lonilon.-Ali'mTvbole 00-mile front of the new Italian drive, two weeks old on Sunday, the A..stru.i launched some of the fiercest thins ts of the war. Everywhere they t t beaten olT. Not a foot ot g.'"nd w s regained by them. Moreover th Italians plowed ahead appreciably n some sectors, taking additional hundreds hun-dreds of prisoners and adding to then huge boofy. , . (h. M.. ., Gabriele. bathed in the Italian fire and almost surrounded, is not expected to hold out much longer. Slowly the last remaining defense works of this great strategic height are crumbling to bits. The Germans are knocking virtually virtual-ly at the gates of Riga, with the Russians Rus-sians apparently unable to withstand their advance. The great Baltic port, head of the railway running to Petrograd. is beset on three sides by the enemy on the west in the Lake Babit region, on the southwest near Mitau and on the southeast along the eastern bank of the Dvina river, a scant fifteen miles distant from the city. Whiie the capture of Riga would be of great strategic value to the Germans Ger-mans in controlling the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, at the head of which stands Petrograd, it would not necessarily place the capital in jeopardy. |