The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-11-07
Austrians Defeated Along Whole
Front From Carso Plateau To
Adriatic, Losing Strong Posi-
tons, Guns and Many Prisoners
BRITISH SURPRISE THE
GERMANS AT NIGHT
Strong Raiding Party Seizes Tren-
ches At Gueudecourt Wping
Out Defenders Who Had Ex-
pected Quiet Nights Rest


T ONDON, November 4-The out
standing features of the war news
- yesterday were the reports from
Rome, announcing the continuation of
the drive upon Trieste. The Austrians,
say the official Italian reports, are being
defeated along their whole defensive
front from the eastern edge Of the
CnrsO plateau of the shores Of the
Adriatic, with the Italians Selling one
strong position after another.
Ten Thousand Prisoners
In lighting yesterday the Austrinns
offered much less resistance to the Ital-
ian advance than on the previous day,
falling back and abandoning guns and
supplies TO the imPetuOus troops of
King Emanuel, who pressed every ad.
vantage and inflicted heavy losses on
the rrtreating foe.
Prisoners taken bv the Italians yes.
terday numbered 394s mnti1g n total
for two days Of prac irnllv ten thou
sand men. The total Austrian cas-
ualties in the drive are estimated to
be nearly $4,000.
British Spring Surprise
Last night, after it had been taken
for granted that the infantry fighting
for the day WaS over, the British made
surprise attack upon the Germans
cast OF GuedecOurt taking a number of
trenches and wiPing out the defenders,
mary OF whom surrendered. The attack
followed number of feints against
the same positions earlier in the day,
the failure Of the British to drive any
of these early attacks home being des,
criOed in yesterdays Berlin despatch
"s as due to the strong German de
Tense. Tn" final attack, made in earn
EST. was a complete success.
Other raids were carried out after
nightfall by the British storming
paties entering the Germ nan lines near
Arras and returning with prisoners and
some machine guns.
somme Front Quiet
On the SOmme front yesterday there
was comparative quiet, the French con.
solidating the gains made the day pre-
vious and combining their aggressive to
active artillery work. The Germans
hOmbardod the advance working part
les Of the French but delivered no
counter attacks.
On the Verdun front the French
rOvcd forward and occupied Fort Vaux,
after waiting until the mines left
by the ticrna ms had been exploded, The
Germans made no effort to prevent the
re occupation of the demolished for.
treSs
Progress Toward Bucharest
Violent lighting continues to mark
h" AustrO- German advance in the
''red"al sector, in the attempt to drive
an army in the direction of Bucharest.
The Trutons are pressing slowly for
ward. fighting for every yard gained,
With the Rumanias falling back and
Tier nG desperate resistance. The
'crlin despatchrS state that the leu.
ons are mRfing Roadway south of tho
IumRnun border at this point.
D"sprtrh"s from Bucharest announce
hat tn" Rumn ninns have cleared their
territory Of invaders in the region of the
!ut"i plutrnu. where King Ferdinand :
nrn have crossed back into Trnnsylvan.
a and occupied tn" villages Of Taturu.
miO and the heights Of the same name.
In the BnZ"u Valley the village of Sir.
nj has boon cleared of Austro- Germans
and occupied.
No Balkan Changes
There has been little change in Mace
dOuia, the one success being credited
to the British, who drove the Bulgars
back on the Struma River and seized
the town of Ahtsa.
On the Galician front, Berlin an.
nOuncrs that the Slavs were rrPulsed
seven times in desperate effort to ad
vance on the east bank of the Nara.
yuvka River near HulicE. The Russian
loss was heavy, say the Berlin dcs
patches.
The Pctrograd dispatches covering
the same operation dispute those Of
Berlin, claiming that the Russians
made marked advances and drove the
Austro Germans back with heavy losses
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