"Balkan theater: Apart from successful attacks made by our aviators on enemy establishments, there is nothing to report."
ITALIAN TROOPS CARRY A L'ARRIA POSITIONS
ROME, June 17 (via London).—Italian troops have carried the Austrian positions of Malga, Fossetta and Monte Magari, between the Frenzela Valley and Marcesina, according to an official statement given out at the War Department today. The Italians took 203 prisoners and captured six guns and four machine guns.

HITISH TROOPS FROM THE EAST
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 17 (via London).—British forces attempting to cross the lower Euphrates River, near Avocourt, were forced to retreat in disorder after a six-hour battle, says the Turkish official statement issued today. The British left so dead on the field.

LONDON, June 17.—In the course of last night German troops attacked the French positions at Avocourt with grenades, says the official statement issued today by the French War Department.
In the region of Le Mort Homme there was an intense bombardment. In the Vosges, after a violent bombardment of hill No. 425, to the east of Thaum, French infantry, the statement adds, penetrated the enemy's lines.  First and second lines and brought back a number of German prisoners. The statement follows: "In Belgium, there was last night a fairly intense artillery duel in the sector of Lombardzyde. On the left bank of the River Mouse, German attacks with hand grenades in the redoubt at Avecourt and on our advanced posts west of hill No. 301 were easily repulsed. There has been an intense bombardment of our positions at Dead Man's Hill, but without any infantry action." 