The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-11-20
German and Austro-
Hungarian Forces Un-
able to Cross River
CADORNA'S SOLDIERS
INFLICT BIG LOSSES
Allied Relief for Defenders Ex-
pected to Assume Burden of
Battle-Two Thousand Huns
Captured-British Artillery
Roars in Flanders.

All along the Piave River the ltal-
ians are holding the German and
Austro-Hungarian armies in check.
No where have the invaders been
able to cross the stream and at sew
eral places where they previously
had gained access to the western
bank they have been brilliantly
counterattacked and forced to with
draw to the rivers edge.
On the Zenson loop sector, in the
south, the enemy has endeavored to
extricate himself from his serious
position but the Italians, putting
down an attack with heavy losses,
closed in upon the invaders and
made more precarious their situa-
ton. The Italians in the fighting
along the western bank of the wa
terway have captured more than
1000 prisoners and also taken 27
machine guns. In the Fagare zone
the enemy has been completely van
auished and forced to give up his
position.
Italians Repel Attacks.
In the hilly region representing
the northern front from Lake Garda
to the region south of Feltre all the
Austro-German attacks, some of
them delivered with extreme vio-
lence, have been repelled, accord
ing to the Rome war Office, although
Berlin asserts that northeast of
Asiago and between the Brenta and
the Piave Rivers the Italians have
been driven from further strong
mountain positions.
No advices have come: through to
show that the British and French re-
inforcements have reached the Ital-
ian line in any considerable num-
bers, but the "few days" which it
was announced last week must in
teyyene before they could stiffen the
front are at an end. Therefore, it
is presumed that with the Italians
having borne the brunt of the Teu-
tonic allied attack during the last
week unaided, the present week,
with the aid of the allies in their
line, will turn the balance of the
scale in their favor.
Again the artillery duel on the
Flanders front has reached tremen-
dous proportions and it is not un-
likely that Field Marshal Haig has
in preparation another dash forward
from the region of Passchendaele
toward the town of Roulers and the
important railway line serving the
German front from the North Sea,
southwark. The Germans, antici-
pating another of the British COM
mander-in-chief are, directing their
heavy gunfire on the positions in the
neighborhood of passchendaele and
Langmarck and south of the Poly
gon wood.
To the south the big guns of the
French and the Germans also are
active along the Chemin des Danes
and the present week doubtless will
witness another attempt by General
Petain's army here to press further
forward toward Laon.
The British troops in Palestine
are giving the Turks no rest. The
important city of Jaffa on the Med
iterranean has been captured by
them, the Ottoman forces offering
no resistance. 1t is stated that in
stead of standing and offering bat
tie the Turks are in retirement
northward.
The latest unofficial advices from
Russia indicate that Petrograd and
Moscow are still in the hands of
the Bolsheviki.