The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1917-11-02
AMERICAN TROOPS
IN THE TRENCHES
G)NERAL PERSHING HAD SEW
ERAL INFANTRY BATTAL-
IONS IN ACTION
GIVE GERMANS HARD FIGHT
Sent Flame Of Patriotism Throughout
This Country-Italians Get Awful
Beating from kaiser's Big Army
Lose 10000 Men.

"ACIlllNb OAN-lH o udIlOH was
thrilled Saturday by word that Amer
lean troops were face to face with
the Germans across no-man's land.
Announcement by General Pershing
that several battalions of his infantry
were in the front line trenches, sup
ported by. American batteries which
already had gone into action against
the enemy, famed new flame of
patriotism throughout the country.
Final Phase of Training.
The absolute silence with which
Secretary Baker and war department
officials greeted the news, however,
showed that although the movement
had been expected at any time, it
was regarded only as the final phase
of the mems training military fin
ishing school conducted under fire
a school of blood and iron. German
shells are breaking about the Ameri-
cans, and although they have not ia
ken over the trench sector, rifles,
machine guns, bombs and bayonets in
American hands will greet any enemy
attack.
Greatest Offensive of War.
Army Headquarters in Northern
Italy.-Virtually the entire Austrian
army, REINFORCED by heavy German
contingents, conducted by the re-
doubtable Field Marshal Won Macken-
sen, is now facing the Italian army
in the greatest offense since the be-
ginning of the war, with the evident
purpose of invading the Friuli region,
the easternmost province of VeneZia.
He has massed 100000 Germans two
miles from the Italian border. All
German troops now fighting on the
Italian border were taken from the
Russian front. Sixty thousand Ital-
ians were taken prisoner by the Aus
trian-German forces and guns to the
number of $50 captured.
Allies Win in Flanders.
LONDON.-The entire Merckem
peninsula, near Dixmud, has been cap.
tured by the entente forces and add.
tional prisoners also have been taken.
The text of the statement follows:
"Durink the course of the day oper
atoms by French and Belgian forces
north of Merckem were successfully
carried out. The village of Luyghem
was captured Sunday morning by the
French troops and the whole Mercken
peninsula now is in the hands of the
allies. A further number of prisoners
hoo hoop 10 DfurodO
Entire Italian Line Gone.
The Austro-G German armies under
the command Of Emperor Charles, who
has as his chief assistant the brilliant
Field Marshal Won Mackensen, are
shaking the entire italian line from
the Julian Alps region to the Adriatie
sea. Pressing back the Italians al
several points on Italian soil, the com
bined enemy forces now have pushed
forward on the Italian left wing and
captured Cividale. lying to the north
east Of Udine. and are nearing the
plains beyond. In addition, the Aus
TRAN town of Gorilla, a point of great
strategic value on the Isonzo river
has been retaken from the Italians.
Berlin Reports italian Prisoners.
According to the latest Berlin Off
cial communication 100000 Italians
have been made prisoner and in excess
of 700 guns have fallen into Austro
German hands. The second and THIRD
Italian armies are declared to be ir
retreat,