The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-27
AT Many Places on Twenty
Mile Front kaiser's Troops
Cross Boundary
FORCE EVACUATION OF
BAINSIZZA PLATEAU
F tanco-British High Command
Renews Offensive on Vest
ern Front. Making Substan-
tial Gains

LONDON Ict. 90 AT many places
German troops are 1ghting on italian
territory" the German war office an
nounced today in reporting further
important progr ess in the drive
against the Italiars on the Isonzo.
Thirty thousand prisoners have
been taken so FAR by The advancing
Teutons Three hundred guns are tn
cluded in the booty
But the saddest VS. of all for Italy
and her allies was this grave admis-
sion from the Rome war Office:
From Monte Maggiore to the west
OF Auzza we have Withdrawn on our
which we had TO provide for the evac-
! uation of the Bainsizza plateau
This means that Ita1y's greatest eff
| fort OF the war. a forty day drive that
| cost even the attackers streams OF
blood has been vitiated, it's fruits
wiped out over night
| Capture of the Bainsizza plateau
was the GROWING glory OF that drive.
Only on the northern edge 4the- AUS
| TRANS were still ciinging fast when
! Cad orna- seeing the symptoms of an
approaching Teuton counter thrust.
called halt to his own offensive 10
| save his munitions.
! Along the whole twenty mile front
| between Fitch and Tolmino the Teu-
| tons are still storming ahead, now on
the western bank of the Isonzo. In
| it's large outline the offensive has all
the ear marks Of n Mackensen drive, Of
the twentieth century school Of attack
that was founded by the field marshal
on the Dunaiee two years go.
! To hold out on the Bainsizza pla-
+ he b1d Sad n "a
Isonzc further north. would have been
! insanity. military critics here agree
The main question in their minds now
4 is whether Cadorna will be able to
save the bulk of his southern armies
from the landslide OF flesh and steel
that is rolling with terrible swiftress
down toward Udina where Italian
chief headquarters are located.
The Ranking menace presented bv
the Teuton leGions snrging through the
twenty mile cash In the italian lines
is admittedly the gravest IN which
any army has found itself since the
Russian dehacIe at Dukla Pass
Darkening the shadows OF gloom
cast over the Kingdom by the reverses
at the front came today's collapse OF
the Bozelli ministry throughout the
allied world 1t is realized that Italy Is
passing through the hour of supreme
trial
Quick to realize this, the Franco
British high commands resumed the
drive in Flanders today. Good cheer
came in dispatches from the United
States announcing Americas program
of aid TO the hard pressed Italians in
the way OF ships and supplies. Alto
I gether the atmosphere is marked by
! more confidence than pessin1isrn.
ITALY will pull through" is the
watchword
The Italian official account empha-
sizes again that the fsonzo drive is
being conducted by powerful forces"
Unofficial dispatches lay stress upon
the predominauce of Germans in the
attack columns. Some of the kaiser's
4 finest shock troops '-~ ErandenburE-
ers ia varians. Pomeranians and Sax
ons--are IN the forefront.
| SO formidable was the momentum
/ of the initirl onrush that cut the big
cash in the Roman line. that the Teu-
/, ton divisions passed beyond their oh
/ jectives'' in the words Of the Berlin
report throwing the Italians from
| strong rear hill positions. Karfareft
| and Ronzina. the former north, the
latter south Tolmina, We're passed.
Fierce resistance is offered nv the
ltplians in all sectors where safety
from enlightenment does not dictate re-
tirament
In the face of driving rain and
| wading in mud. England and France
resumed their great team drive In
Flanders before dawn today. Pro-
eress all along the front, came the
| official news from the two war offices
not lone after the sTomnstes" and
"Poiius" had started over the top
The British report added that rain
had been falling heavily all ntsht and
I continued throughout todav, Ger
| many's greatest friend In the west
once more Wns AT her side to impede
the entente push, But the gains made
were Important. serving as they did
to carry the entente forces still fur
Their across the tip OF Paschendaeie
ridge and the plains OF Flanders.
The French, going into battle I'M
inediately adjoining the British on the
! iatter's left, crossed two rivers. the
! ST Jansbeck and the Coverbeck, with
the water up to their shoulders A.
the Parry ponamuniaue puts II. The
village OF DreittanE Papegoed wood
aaa many fortified farms fell 10 thams
/ They took hundreds OF prisoners,
The approximate s.ngth of the 80
tente line OF attack was ten miles, IL