The Elbert County tribune., 1917-11-23
AUsTRo-GERMANs GO TO DEATH
IN FUTILE ATTACKS ON PIAvE
RIVER LINE.
MANYPRISONERS TAKEN
BRITISH RAPIDLY ENCiRCLlNG
JERUSALEM IN THEIR PAL
EsTINE CAMPAIGN.

Rome, Nov. 21-Between the Brenta
and the Piave rivers. on the northern
front of the Italian theater. the Ital.
ians are tenaciousIy holding back the
enemy and preventing his advance
southwark to the Venetian plain, the
gaining of which would threaten their
entire line along the Piave river south
ward to the Adriatic sea- Four times
attacks against Monte Tomba, the
chief position still blocking the way
from the billy country to the plain.
have been repulsed. East of the Ash
ago plateau the Italians are keeping
up their offensive against the invad-
ers and have taken more than 300
prisoners and number of machine
guns and several hundred rifles.
Shifting his offensive to the south,
Field Marshal Haig has delivered
series of attacks against the Germans
in the region between st. Quentin and
the River Scarpe, in France.
The British rapidly are encircling
Jerusalem in their Palestine cam
paign, having now brought their
forces to points twelve miles north
west and fifteen miles west of the
ancient city.
London-Five German submarines
were destroyed on the 18th alone,
Premier Lloyd George told the House
of Commons.
London, Nov. 20.-The first indica-
tions the Italians probably will be
forced to abandon the Piave river line
is contained in reports from the bat
tie front that the Germans. who pre-
viously have used only light field
pieces against Diaz troops, are now
bringing up the heaviest howitzers
and laying the stage for tremendous
assault before the full strength of al
lied help arrives.
The Italians are holding the middle
and lower reaches of the Piave river
successfully against the Teutonic in
yaders and have thrown back the
greater portion of those who crossed
the stream. The enemy is trying with
strong forces to the north to beat
back the troops of Gen. Diaz. pierce
the line and force a retirement west
ward from the region of Vidor to the
Adriatic sea.
The invaders have captured several
important points of vantage, notably
the village of Quero and Monte Cor
nelle-and have compelled the Ital-
ians under a heavy bombardment to
evacuate their strongly fortified posi-
ton on Monte Tomba The Germans
announced also the taking of 1,100
prisoners during the fighting.
All the enemy forces which last
week crossed the river Piave near
Zenson have been swept clear of the
western bank in brilliant attack by
the Italians.
Indications point to another attack
by Field Marshal Haig in Flanders
and possibly by Gen. Petain's forces
near Verdun.
London-Premier Lloyd George de-
Tended himself in the House of Com
mons against the first serious attack
his administration has faced, and so
far as the commons is concerned his
defense seemed highly successful
The prime minister's admirers call it
triumph. The attack was focused
upon two points-the character of the
war council which the premier an
nounced in Paris and the condemna-
ton of the allies past strategy, which
he pronounced in his Paris speech.
The British troops III Palestine are
giving the Turks no rest. Jaffa has
been captured by them, the Ottoman
forces offering no resistance. 1t is
stated that the Turks are in retire
ment northward