Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-26
|S NOW MILES FROMFRENCH FRONT LINES
Petain's Forces Develop Sue cesses of Tuesday. More Than 12,0O0 Huns Cap tured in Drive. Austro-Ger- man Offensive.
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 The French forces in the Aisne re- zion continue to develop their sue cess of Tuesday. when they made a rapid advance over a front of about six miles, capturing important Ger man positions and thousands Of pris- oners.
 | Following up minor successes on "Wednesday. the French again attacked Thursday along the entire line. fore i ing the Germans to abandon Monkey mountain east of VauxilliOn. the vil- | lage and forest of PinOn. the village of Pargny-Filain. on the extreme eaSc of the line, and numerous farms and other points of vantage.
 Lacn Is Objective The latest drive of the French brings General Petain's army within sight of the important railroad june tion of Laon. the objective sought for. which now is a scant eight miles dis tant. Large quantities of war stores were abandoned by the army in their retreat and additional guns and pris- Onsrs were captured. The number of prisoners taken since the drive began now exceeds 12.000. more than 2a0 of whom are officers. Two thousand of the prisoners were taken Thursday. 1 An indication of the rapidity with which the drive has been carried out is the total number of guns the Ce-- mans were forced to leave behind These amount 10 12o. among them several howitzers. not 60 mention sev- eral hundred small-caliber pieces. such as minnenweTfer and machine guns.
 On the 25-miie front running from Monte RombOn 70 the Bainszzania plateau the battle between the Aust-o- German forces and the Italians 3D. parently is growing in intensity. with the Austro-Germans the aggressOrs. but with the italians s,ubbcrnly re- sisting everywhere.
 Although the German war office as- serts that gains have been made at various points along the line. the ltal- ian official communication does not concede any losses except on the east bank of the Isonzo south of Monte Rombon.
 To the contrary. this cOmmunica- tion asserts that on the Bainszzinia plateau. where the Germgns had an- nounced successes. and on the west slope of Monte San Gabriel. enemy attacks were repulsed. and that the Italians even took several hundred prisoners.
 Not alone does the German war office assert that the Italian line barring the way to the valley of the Flitch basin and to TOliminO was overrun and that positions also were captured on the Bainszzania plateau. but that large quantities of booty were taken by the Austro- Germans. and that more than 10000 prisoners fell into their hands. including divisional and brigade staffs.
 While the operations of the Ypres sector in Flanders continued tO be carried out mainly by the artillery.  with the British and French guns hurling the greater weight of metal the Germans have launched another strong cOunter-attack south of the HOuthOlst forest. where the British and French armies have joined hands. Again this attack met with repIlSe.
 In intense air fighting Wednesday night. the French airmen shot down or forced to land in damaged con dition 25 German planes.
 Germans Retire
 The retirement of the Germans on the northern Russian front continues. The nemy now is back as far as the Rodenpois-Turkaln line approaching the Dvina river region. Behind them the Germans are destroying every thing on the 15-mile front over which they are retreating.
 On the Gulf of Riga the Germans have attempted a further landing. but were stopped by the Russian fire. Pos sibly in view of the operations of Ger man naval units at the head of the Gulf of Finland. the civil population is evacuating Kronstadt. the great -Dd haaa