Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-11-05
RUSH FRENCH
TROOPS TO AID
OF ITALIANS
Artillery Particularly Being
Sent to Help Stay Ger
man Assaults.
British Troops also on the
New Line and More are
to Follow.

Washington. Nov. 5-French troops
are moving rapidly into Italy to rein
force General Cadorna's army.
The movement has been conducted
by rail. and as it is believed the trans
portation has virtually been complet-
ed. the railroads will be used for the
replenishment Of Italy's arsenals with
munitions and other imperatively
needed supplies.
1t is believed here that the assist
ance in men Italy has received from
France and England has consisted of
artillery men. rather than infantry
men, Italy having more infantrymen
than can presently be employed at the
front
Captured Italians Not Soldiers.
Dispatches indicate that the ma
jority of prisoners captured by the
Austro-Germans were not fighting
units. but laborers engaged at the
front for many employments in con-
nection with the military operations
and the maintenance of lines of COM
munication.
Italian newspapers describe pati-
otic demonstrations along the route of
the French soldiers on their way to
the italian front. At all stations the
town population turned out en- masse.
An enormous assembly gathered at
Brescia in order to meet the French
! contingents and the relief troops pa
raded through the city presenting
arms before the Gartbaldi monument
German War Spoils of little Value.
| A dispatch on the military situation
says:
| General Corsi, commenting on
General Cadornas bulletin. writing in
the Roma Tribuna says that by with
drawing to the Tagliamento line the
entire Italian army has accomplished
the most difficult of war operations
notwithstanding enormous obstacles
it being necessary to evacuate the
zone constituting, the entire base o1
refurnishhent. magazines; nunitioni
deposits and all material prearrange-
ment for imminent winter campaign.
ing and the entire. sanitary system.
Nothing was left to the enemy and
nothing that could be used was taken
by him. The rear guard troops COW
ering the retreat fought most strenu-
ously for nine days in order to mod
crate the rapidity Of the enemy's
march. The military critic asserts
that the maneuver will have now tc
pass two other distinct phases. first, to
establish complete organization in the
lines, and, second, to disorganize
those Of the enemy.
May Be Decisive Battle.
General Corsi concludes by max.
ing this observation: Now the italian
front is assuming new aspects owing
to the presence of British and French
soldiers, namely. that the front is not
exclusively an Italian front. but the
front of the Allies. where a decisive
battle for the Entente may yet be
fought
"The strategical conditions are such
that the Austro- German armies will
be obliged either to give or accep,
battle. Italian, French and English
troops, already strongly massed. are
now possessed of superior resources
which guarantee that the first difficult
phase having been overcome by the
Italians it will be followed by an al
lied victory"
Military members Of the French
high com mission to the United State:
are satisfied that the superiority o.
the Anglo French forces on the west
ern front in men and guns is such a.
to greatly restrict the help which
Germany can send to the italian from
until the Allies are able to retrieve
i the situation in italy,