Arizona republican., 1917-11-11
BRITISH BATTERIES REACH
 ITALIAN BATTLE FRONT TO
 AID HARD PRESSED TROOPS
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 The eagerly awaited aid for Italys hard pressed troops on the Piave line has reached the battle front in the form of British batteries. according to a dispatch from Italian headquar- ters. These batteries are expected to give support in stying the Austro-Ger- German advance, which task heretofore has been borne chiefly by infantry ac- tions of the Italian rear guard.
 With the opposing armies lined up along a thirty mile stretch of the Piave river in it's lower course and in fighting touch with each other on a wide front stretching westward through the hills to the north of the Venetian plain, a real test of strength seems in prospect for the first time since the Italian armies in northwest l ern Italy began their retreat from the { | Isonzo.
 Hitherto the main force of the Aus i tro- German thrust into Italy in this 1 | campaign has been from the northeast. 1 With their left standing along the east 1 bank of the lower Piave, however, the l Teutonic armies apparently have now begun to exert their chief pressure with their right wing from the north along the lire bending sharply west from Asiago, thirty miles from the Adriatic on the Piave. 1 Austro- Hungarian forces, which were increased on Saturday are press ing forward in the Sugana valley as well as in the upper Piave. The Tren- tino region virtually begins at the Su- I i, daualnyod
 in this district the predicted flanking
 attack on the Italian left, which has
 been recognized as probably the most serious threat to the Italian line
 which the Teutonic command could
 bring to bear. Upon successful re-
 sistance to this drive from the north
 depends the stability of the whole
 Italian front to the east, as well as
 continued possession of Venice and
 what remains of the northeastern neck
 of Italy.
 Just what line the Italian command
 has chosen for resistance to the flank
 ing operation is not apparent but if
 run north of Asiago, twenty miles west
 of Susegana it is apparent that the invading armies already have gained l d QcClueu dQfdIlLdS6 TUT iOclllll ISpOI bb
 the capture of Asiago, after hard fight |. ing irl the streets. It is nearly a dozen miles, however, from Asiago to the Venetian plains, the Austro- German
 objective, with the route running through a hilly country. lending itself :. admirably to defense, as was shown in the Austrian offensive of 1916 when the enemy was halted in the Asiago region. In Flanders the British have won another decided success in enlarging
 the salient in the Passchendaele re- zion. Attacking early Saturday on a 2,500-yard front they pushed forward along the ridge and in the marshy dis strict to the north west to a. maximum depth of about half mile, capturing many strongly fortified positions in brilliant style. British forces in Palestine are con- I tinuing their northward march follow l ing the retreating Turks. They have @ now advanced nearly twenty miles in s the region since their capture of Gaza recently and have nearly attained the latitude of Jerusalem. That city is n more than forty miles inland however.
 and the interior British column, nov ing from Beersheba apparently has k made less rapid progress than the l coastal force. The British have taken . more than seventy guns and inflicted | estimated casualties of ten thousand n on the Turks. exclusive of prisoners. t Germany shows signs of continuing d her aggressive moves in northern Rus @ sia waters. Following on advices that i" German troops had landed on the
 Aland islands, off the Gulf of Bothnia,
 between Finland and Sweden, came a
 report from Stockholm that German
 forces had entered Helsingfors. capital
 of Finland. This move is considered
 as probably having both political and
 military objects, the former in taking advantage of Finnish discontent and
 desire for independence from Russia
 and the latter in the threat that is pre-.
 scented of it with communication with Russia from the west through Finland
 and Sweden.
 Advices from Petrograd under s current date were lacking during @ the day on Saturday and thus nc o additional light was thrown on the t situation created there by the Bol- O sheviki seizure of power. Dispatches d filed on Friday unofficially re-
 ported the formation of 8 cabinet e with Nikolai Lenine as premier and = Leon Trotzky as foreign minister I. There were no further developments s regarding the whereabouts of Pre-. s nier Kerensky or General Korniloff g who on Friday was reported to havt r. escaped.
 J. British Batteri.s Arrive
 y ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS Nov