South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-18

Italy's armies are making heroic
| and so far successful stand against
] the Austro-German masses thrown
against them in desperate attacks
along the line of the Piave river and
| i'm the mountainous region from the
1 Piave westward TO the edge of the
Trentino district The river line has
not been preached at any point,
while the thrust of the Austrian
! forces southwark from the hills in an
attempt to drive a wedge through to
the plains behind the Piave line
is making slow progress.
Ii is now more than a week since
| the Italians retreating from the
TaIiamento crossed 10 the west
bank of the Piave and took up their
defensive positions behind it.
The German command lost no
/ time in attempting to force a pas
! sage OF the stream and the enemy
| efforts were pressed on a scale of
| increasing intensity during all last
week
Take 900 Prisoners.
The Italian resistance, however,
! seems 10 be growing stronger rather
than otherwise The latest Austro-
German attempts to gain a perma-
4 nent hold on the westerly side of the
! Piave We're not only brilliantly
frustrated but the enemy columns
| were badly cut up and nearly one
| thousand Teutons were taken pris-
| oners.
These attacks on the river line
were delivered just above the zen
! son loop, where the invaders first
! effected crossing and were hem
med I'm from the start They are
| steadily being driven here into an
| increasingly restricted zone, the
| Rome war office now announces
| Near the Adriatic the water barrier
! 20 any Austro- German advance to-
! ward Venice, raised by the opening
OF the flood gates into the swampy
region is being reinforced by the
work Of the army artillery and the
guns Of the Italian warships on the
| Adriatic.
Yield Slightly in Hills.
The Italian line has yielded
slightly in the hills east of the
Brenta where the capture of Monte
| Prassolan by Austro- Hungarian
troops is announced by Berlin. No
further advances for the attacking
forces in the mountain region north
east of Asiago are claimed.
Military operations in the other
war theaters We're on a comparative
" small scale. The most important
move was made in Flanders by the
! British who pushed further north on
the Goeberg spur, northwest of
Passchendaele, capturing a strongly
fortified redoubt known as Vocation
farm and so improving their posi-
tons in this sector as 20 make the
present line across PASSED. ele
ridge easier 10 hold.
In Palestine the British forces
which recently have made so spec
tacular an advance up the Mediter-
ranean coast 70 the neighborhood
of Jaffa are still moving forward
but apparently feeling their way
with some caution. The Turks are
giving signs OF making a stand a
few miles north OF Jaffa. where
Their are reported attempting TO
prepare an entrenChed position.
Americans Heavily Shelled.
In the sector of the French front
held by the American troops there
has been increased activity by the
! artillery incidental TO which there
have been additions 70 tip American
casualty list, some Of which occurred
when a German shell hit an Ameri-
can gun. The American batteries
have been energetic in their reply,
! giving the Germans better than
they sent in the opinion OF obser-
| vers
On the naval side OF the var there
is an interesting develo ment i'm
! the North sea where British light
] forces operating in HelgO'and blight
encountered and engaged German
4, light cruisers Saturday morning
The British admiralty reported tn
an early statement that the Germans
made off az high speed with the
! British vessels in pursuit