Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-11-01
Austro.G Germans Make Terrific
Drive Against italians on
Is0nz0 Front.
GORlZiA RECAPTURED, ALSO
MANY PRISONERS AND GUNS
Claims Of Italians Captured Vary
From $4,000 to 100000 Men
Overwhelming Numbers AZ.
sist Enemy's Drive

Berlin, Oct. 29.-(Via London. Brit
ish Admiralty per Wireless Press)-
The Austrians and Germans have
forced their way thru the mountains
to the plains of northern Italy. cap
turing the town of Cividale. the war
office announces. The city of Gorilla,
on the Isonzo. also has been captured.
The number of Italian prisoners. ac-
cording to the report, has been in
creased to more than $4,000.
The announcement follows:
rapid development OF the united
attack on the 1sonzo again brought
success Saturday. The Italian forces
which sought to prevent our division
from emerging from the mountains were
thrown back by powerful thrusts. In
the evening German troops forced their
way into the burning town of Cividale.
the first town in the point Of position
in the plain.
1.-THE Italian front, as far as the
Adriatic sea. is wavering. Our troops
are pressing forward on the whole line.
Gorilla, the much disputed town in the
Isonzo battles, was taken early by the
Austro- Hungarian divisions"
Cividale is town of about 5000. in
important railroad center of Udine. 1t
is near the entrance to the valley of
the Natisone river along which the
Austro-German forces that broke the
Italian line in the Tolmino region have
battered their way. Cividale is in the
foothills of the Julian Alps, beyond
which lie the plains of northern Italy.
Another Berlin report, sent via Lon
hn 1t
Italians and more than 700 guns is re-
ported in the official communication
from general headquarters. which de-
clares that the Italian second and third
armies are in retreat towards the west.
Our pursuit is advancing rapidly from
the mountains as far as the sea-
London. Oct. 29.-1t is estimated IN
an Exchange dispatch from Rome that
the Italians are opposed on the front
of the Austro-Germ attack by forces
four times their number.
Reports come from Amsterdam that
the battle on the Isonzo evokes shouts
Of triumph in the German and Aust
trian press, particularly the latter. The
Neues Wiener Tagebl;.tt talks Of the
Sudden destruction of the entente's
IdSI uOpe VII LuIOpettn Udlll0lleIuS.
Gorilla. chief of the towns now re-
ported fallen to the Austro- German
arms, was captured by the italian
forces on August 9. 1916. in an engage
ment that was considered one of the
most important successes Of the Ital-
ian campaign. About 10000 Austrian
prisoners were taken Gorilla ia
town Of about $1,000 inhabitants on the
Isonzo, half way down the present
Austro German front of attack be-
tween Tolmino and the sea. 1t is %
miles northwest Of Trieste. Austria's
big seaport ct the head of the Adriatfc.
the capture of which is one Of the
principal italian aspirations in the
war.
Reports from Rome saw that the
failure to resist on the part of some
units forming the Italian second army
allowed the Austro German forces to
break into our left wing on the Julian
front. We are now withdrawing our
line according to the plan prepared.
All stores and depots in the evacuated
places were destroyed"