The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
T RAP
AR NY.
HUNS CAPTURE
$4,000 MORE
IN ITALY DRIVE.
Metreat Cut OF, Third Army
Intact Lays Down Arms.
Makes Total of $4,000 Prison
erS to Invaders.
ITALY MAKES STAND ON RIVER
Germans Now on Opposite Side
of the TagliamentO.
Crucial Battle Forced Much
Sooner Than Anticipated.
retreat Cut OF, Third Army
Intact Lays Down Arms.
Makes Total of 10000 Prison
ers to Invaders.
ITALY MAKES STAND ON RIVER
Germans Now on Opposite Side
of the TagliamentO.
Crucial Battle Forced Much
Sooner Than Anticipated.

Berlin, via London, Nov. Sixty
thousand Italian soldiers laid down
their arms east of the lower Taglia-
mento," the official statement an
nounces today.
The war office announced the total
of prisoners taken in the great Italian
drive had now reached $4,000 men
and 500 guns were taken.
The German statement says the
Teuton fourteenth army yesterday
gained another great victory.
Portions of the Italian retreating
forces made a stand at the Taglia-
mento river. The bridge head posi-
tions at Dignano and Codroipo were
captured by the Germans.
The Austro-Germans penetrated the
rear guard positions of the Italians to
the east of the lower Tagliamento
where they cut off and captured
O,OOO Italians.
The sixty thousand men who laid
down their arms" east of the Taglia-
mento river probably refers to a big
body of the troops of the third italian
army which dispatches have indicated
were likely to be trapped near the
coast.
Succeeds IN Making Stan0.
London, Nov. Berlin claimed to
have stormed the eastern bank de-
fenses of the river at Dignano and
Codroipo. But as London read in be-
tween the lines, General Cadorna has
succeeded in establishing himself on
the west bank of that defensive water
way The greatest apprehension,
however, was aroused here over Ber-
Inns claim of the capture of sixty
I.ls IL
it was known General Cadorna's third
army was seeking to escape from the
vise-like grip of General Won Macken-
sens armies Between Udine and the
coast line.
one section of the German official
statement seemed to indicate that
Italian forces were successfully cover
ing the retreat of this army, but the
German announcement that $4,000
ITALIAN soldiers had surrendered. il
confirmed, would seem to indicate "A
crushing blow to this force
THE Italians retired fighting to the
western bank of the Tagliamento. -
the Berlin war office declared, "at the
Pouzano, Dignano and Codroipo
bridgeheads violently resisting and
covering the retirement of the third
army
The bridgehead positions at Dig
nano and Codroipo were stormed and
we penetrated from the north the rear
guard positions east of the lower Tag
liamento."
IA Miles West of Udine.
Dignano is approximately IA miles
nearly due west of Udine. directly on
the Tagliamento river. COdroipo is
about the same distance from Udine
slightly more to the south and is To-
Gated on the river Taglio. about five
miles distant from the Tagliamento
Pouzano does not appear on available
maps.
Withdraw to River
Rome. Nov. 1.-"Deluding the enc
my's plans by OBTAINING his advanc-
ing troops, the Italians withdrew tc
the TaRliamento under difficult con-
ditions," today's official statement as
serted