The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-11-22

Rome, Nov. 19-The armies of Italy
are making a stand along the Piave
river. They have thrown back masses
of Austro-German troops that have
been hurled against them in an effort
to break the line, which has not been
preached at any point.
The invaders for a week have been
trying to force the italian defenses on
the Piave, but have been unsuccess-
full, and the Italian army seems to
have been strengthened during that
time. Hundreds of Austrian and Ger
man soldiers have been captured in
the last repulse and twenty-seyen ma
chine guns taken.
In Flanders the British have pushed
further north on Goeberg spur, north
west of Passchendaele, and captured
strongly fortified redoubt.
Germans report the capture of 500
Italians in the Monte Prassolyn drive.
The British troops in Palestine are
giving the Turks no rest. Jaffa has
been captured by them, the Ottoman
forces offering no resistance. 1t is
stated that the Turks are in retire
ment northward.
The German naval forces encoun-
tered by British light war craft in
the North sea Saturday were forced
to seek haven of safety under the
protection of their battle fleets and
behind the mine fields of Helgoland.
Italian Headquarters in Northern
Italy, Nov. 1.-THE floodgates of the
Piave and Sile. or Old Piave, rivers
have been opened by Italian military
engineers and the enemy is now faced
by another User of inundation.
The flood was loosed at the point
where the enemy succeeded in cross
ing the Piave near Grisolera (four
miles from the coasD, and the whole
region where he gained lodgment is
now under water. The inundated ter
ritory forms a huge triangle about
twelve miles on each side. with the
apex at Dona di Piave. The enemy
had been driven back but still held on
within this triangle until the dikes
from both rivers released the water
over the low-lying plain.
The chief menace at that point was
that the enemy might be able to ap-
proach Venice fhru lagoons or bonn
bard the city from his position be-
tween the rivers. The inundation In
terposes a barrier of water twelve
miles across and several feet deep.
Near the Adriatic the Piave and Sile
rivers are contained in canals running
through land at or below sea level and
which stretches for many miles along
the Adriatic from the Venetian lagoon.
With the rivers allowed to flow un.
checked 1t would appear to make Aus
tro-German efforts in this region bar
ren of results
The British in Palestine have
reached a point three miles south OF
Jaffa and are meeting with only slight
resistance. Since the operations be-
gan, Oct. 81, more than 5000 Turks
have been made prisoner.
At last reports from Petrograd the
Bolsheviki faction was in control and
fighting was in progress In the streets.
A dispatch sent from Petrograd We'd
nesday reiterates that Kerensky forces
met With uCkSat dt thC huhNo Vi wv
Bolsheviki south of Petrograd and
were compelled to retreat to Gatchini.
Seven thousand military cadets and
5000 troops are besieged in the Krem-
lin at Moscow by $4,000 Bolshevikf.
who are battering the ancient walls
and buildings with heavy artillery, &C
cording to a well-authenticated report
received at Petrograd.
Gen. Dukhonin has assumed tempo
rarily the post OF commander-in-chief
of the Kerensky forces following the
disappearance of Premier Kerensky.
who is reported to have fled disguised
as a sailor.
Viscount Cowdray, chairman of the
British Air Board. has resigned as
consequence OF Lord Northclirre's let
ter to Premier Lloyd George.
German Aviators Again Raid Nancy.
Paris-German airmen raided Nan