The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-10
BRITISH ATTACK
AT DAWN
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sustain the shock of the Austro-Ger
man invasion.
The magnitude of the task OF with
drawal to behind the Piave line was
made apparent with the arrival Of
countless refugees from that territory
1t was estimated that there are now
a million homeless people in Rome
many in dire need
Military exigencies dictated the
complete civil as well as military evac-
uation Of all the territory between
the Livenza and Piave rivers. Such
large villages and cities as Belluno,
4 Vittoria, Conegliano. Parenone, Sal
lille and Ordergo were completely strip
Iped Of their inhabitants. The enemy
Twill find them literally shells.
The abandonment of territory to
the invaders heretofore has not been
| on such large scale. The evacua-
/ ton for the retreat across the Taslia-
mento was only partial, presumably
/ because the Italian command never
!. intended to make its final stand be-
| fore the enemy along that line.
! Collections in Rome for civilian re-
LIEF today reached $4,000. 900 lire,
about s15,600, 900. Much more is need
ed
Cardinal Laftertaine. patriarch OF
Venice, today appealed to the popu-
lace of that city to "re~,ain calm and
pray to God to pres them and
their homes" Dispatches from Ven
ice today said extraordinary precau-
tons had been adopted to save pre-
cious art works there.
Landed on Island.
STOCKHOLM, Nov 10.-German
forces were landed on the Aland is
lands last night. according to dis
patches received here today.
1.-THE Aland islands lie at the en-
trance to the gulf of Bothnia. only a
short distance north Of Stockholm If
they have been occupied by the Ger
mans, 1t is probably in pursuance OF
a German plan to make them naval
base.
Dispatches few days ago reported
q German fleet off Helsingfors, a short
distance further east in the gulf of
Finland.l
Slaughtered In Cold Blood.
HAMILTON, Ont, Nov. 10.-Bodies
of ten Canadian soldiers were found
with their throats cut, when Canad-
ians drove the enemy from position
in the Lens sectors recently, accord
ing to advices received here today.
The ten men had been captured in a
raid and slaughtered in cold blood
when the German position was at
tackled Captain Alex Solomon was
one Of the ten
German Official Report.
BERLIN, (via London) Nov. 10
German-Austrian troops have reached
the Piave river line.
The war Office announcement today
declared:
1.-THE allies austria and Germany
have reached the Piave from Suse-
| CANA downward as far as the sea"
| "Asigo has been taken" the war Of
fee asserted.
[Susegana is approximately thirty
one miles from the Adriatic cs st and
on the main railway to Treyiso. 1t
is nearly mile distant from the Piave
river.
The Berlin official statement would
indicate that the battle lines are now
drawn for the great battle which may
decide the fate of Venetia. As the
Piave river runs, this line probably
extends over front of more than fifty
miles.1
Germans Bomb Hospitals.
PARIS, Nov. 10.-German airmen
continued their bombing of hospitals
today. Official announcement was
made Of the dropping of incendiary
bombs on the Zuydschoote hospital,
seven members of the hospital staff
I'll IN cd
The hospital raid was part Of gen.
eral bombing expedition carried ont
over the Dunkirk area by German air
men.
More than a score OF French sur
geons and nurses have already been
killed by deliberate German raids on
hospitals.
Gain Of Mile.
[By William Philip Simms, United
Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
FLANDERS, Nov 10.-British troops
drove their wedge nearly a mile fur
their into the German positions out OF
Passchendaele today.
AS this dispatch is filed. Haig s
troops were reported to have achieved
all their detectives.
A dozen strongly fortified farms
have been over-run by the British at
lacking waves. Vigorous fighting was
reported all along the line of the ad-
vance.
The pressure OF Haig's push today
| is showing the Bavarians gradually off
| all of the ridges. They were resisting
violently, but unsuccessfully.
! Raidinu Activity.
! PARIS, Nov. 1b.-Raiding activity
and artillerying on both sides, was all
| the war office reported today. NORM
west OF Rheims, German raids failed.