Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-19
OF WAR
SWINGS TO ALLIES
From Every Quarter Comes
Promise of Activities
Against Huns.
ITALIANS TAKE OFFENSIVE
Artillery Duels May Be Pre-
diction of Another Smash
ing Drive by Haig.

All along the Piave river the ltal-
ians are holding the German and
Austro- Hungarian armies in check.
Nowhere have the invaders been able
to cross the stream and at several
places where they previously mad
gained access to the western bank
they have been brilliantly counter
attacked and forced to- withdraw to
the rivers edge.
On the Zenson loop sector in the
south the enemy has endeavored to
extricate himself from the serious
position but the Italians closed In
upon the invaders and made more
precarious their situation. The ltal-
ians IN the fighting along the western
bank of the waterway have captured
considerable more than two thousand
prisoners and also taken "a machine
Guns. In the Fegare zone the enemy
has been completely vanquished ana
forced to give up his position.
Forced TO Retreat.
In the hilly region representing the
northern froat from Lake Garda To
the region south of Feltre all the Aus
tro-Gcrman attacks some OF them de-
livcrcd with extreme violence, nave
been repelled according to the Rome
war office. althO- Berlin asserts that
northeast of Asiago ana between the
r;renta and the Piave rivers the Ital-
ians have been driven from further
strong mountatn positions.
No adVices have come thru 10 show
that the British and French reinforce
ments have reached the ltaffan line IN
any considerable numbers, but the
"few days which it was announced
last<week must intervene before they
could stiffen the front now are at an
end Therefore, it is presumed thaI
the Italians having borne the prun'
of tho Teutonic-allicd attacks uurii,
the last week uraided, the present
week with the aid of the allies 1T
their line will turn the balance oi
the scale IN their favor.
Haig Prepares Way.
Again the artillery duel on the Elan
ders front has reached tremendous
proportions and it is not unlikely tha
i1ieid Marshal Haig has In prepara'
lion another dash forward from the
region of Passchendaele toward the
town of Roulers and the important
railway line serving the German IRON
from the North sea southwark. Ih'
Germans, anticipating this move, are
directing heavy gunfire on pcsitions
in the neighborhood of Passchendaelt
and I.angemarck and south OF ths
Ploygon wood.
To the south the big guns or the
French and the Germans also are ac'
tive along the Chemin des Danes ant
the present week, doubtless Will Wit
ness another attempt by General re
tain here to press forward loware
Laon.
The British troops in Palestine are
giving the Turks no rest, capturing
the important city of Jaffe en- the
Mediterranean. The Ottoman forces
offered no resistance.
A Naval Engagement.
The German naval forces encoun
tered by British light war craft IN th'
North sea Saturday fled to the pro
lection of their battle fleets and be
hind the mine field of Helgolend.
The British warships chased th'
fleeing enemy as far as was compat
ible with safety and when iast seer
one of the Germans was on IRE ane
another apparently had been damaged
In addition a German mine sweeper
was sunk. The British naval unit sur
fered slight material damage with rev
casualties.
The latest unofficial advices from
Russia indicate that Petrograd ant
Moscow are still in the hands or th'
Bolsheviki and that Sebastopcl, tn
big naval base and arsenal in the Blacl
sea, has gone over to the workmen'
and soldiers delegates. the sailors o
the fleet having sworn allegiance u
them