The Knoxville independent. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-08
ITALIAN TROOPS
WIN Big VICTORY
Capture of Monte San Gabrielle Is
Confirmed; $50 Prisoners
Are Taken.
POSITION DOMINATES GORITz
Western Belgium Is Being Evacuated
by the kaiser's Army as Another
Big Push by HaIg, Appears
Imminent.

London, Sept. GA dispatch re-
ceived in London confirms the capture
by the Italians of Monte San Gabrielle,
together with $50 prisoners, including
81 officers. The Italians now possess
the entire chain of mountains which
dominate Goritz.
Abandon Arms In Flight.
Udine, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. ct is
impossible thus far to give even an ap-
proximate idea of the immense guam
tity of booty which has fallen into the
hands Of the Italians since the begin
ming Of their advance. The materials
captured show the precipitation with
! which the Austrians fled all along the
line of attack. On the BainsiZza pla-
teau near Santo Spirito and Laska
whole conveys Of arms and munitions
| were abandoned in such haste that
| there was no time to destroy them. At
one point thousands Of boxes of pro-
jectiles, hand grenades, rockets, shoes,
rifles and helmets were strewn every
where. Some of the caverns are still
packed with Austrian dead, lying on
one another. The bodies are being
buried gradually.
/ Mule paths and the adjacent side
hills are Uttered with unexploded pro-
| jectiles which the fugitives threw
away, together with daggers, swords
and iron-studded maces used for dis
patching the wounded.
i Turn Captured Guns on Foe.
| On hill 852 the Italians captured
i three 100 scentiIneter cannon. Two q
them were perfectly serviceable AM
| the Italians turned them on the fleeing
enemy, firing 1000 shots.
| In an armored dugout, near Ravena
| the italians discovered the entire
equipment of an Austrian staff Of bri
gade. The extraordinary variety Of
objects found testified to the haste
| of the retreat. 1t included electric
lights, official documents, toilet artl'
cles, kitchen utensils, ventilators and
even love letters. Ravena was the
Austrian center Of supplies for engi-
neer troops and near by were found
stores of picks, shovels, hoes and wire
cutters, entire outfits Of electric equip
ments, miles of steel rails and tnnum-
! cradle rolls Of barbed wire.
Flanders Being Evacuated.
Paris, Sept. Ga dispatch to the
Havas agency last night from Haze
brouck says:
"Western Flanders is being evacu-
ated as far as the line Of Courtrai-
ThoNrout (this line running to the
east respectively of Ypres and Dix
mude). 1t was learned today that
many refugees are being cared for at
Client, large numbers Of them arriv-
ikg from Roulers (northeast of
Ypres), which the English are bonn
harding ceaselessly.
"The people Of Courtrai have been
authorized by the German military OIL
Gals to leave If they desire, and ma
iority of them have departed. Ref
ugees from northern France and Elan
ders are going to Llmbourg."
Belgian Machinery Is Destroyed.
Havre, Sept. Information reach
Ing the Belgian government from be
yond the lines shows that what Is left
of Belgian manufacturing machinery
Is being Systematically taken out OF
the country or destroyed. The ma
chimes have been taken from all fac
tories in La Providence and Other
nearby places. When the manager Of
the mills protested he was told the or
ders from Berlin were to empty Bel
GUM of It's manufacturing resources
tho raDortS say.