The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-11-17
GERMANS CUT OFF
$1,000 ITALIANS
Entire Division of the Retiring
Troops Captured Near the
TagliamentO River.
PAVE DEFENSE LINE is READY
General cadoFHs to Make Supreme Ef-
fort There-British Are Closing
in on Jerusalem.

forces in Northern Italy have crossed
the Livenza river, army Headquarters
announced today.
Italian troops to the number OF sew
enteen thousand were cut off from the
Tagliamento and captured, the official
statement adds. The total number Of
prisoners taken by the Austro-German
forces is now more than one-fourth
million, it is asserted.
Rome, Nov. 9.-Italian troops fought
numerous rear guard actions, in the
course of which they succeeded in
holding up the Austro-German advance
temporarily.
Italian airplanes continued lombard
ing hostile forces along the Tagliamen-
to and brought down five enemy air
planes.
Read to Make a Stand.
London, Nov. 9.-Italy's supreme eff
fort to stem the Germanic invasion
will be made at the now fully prepared
Piave River line
Swiss dispatches reported that Ca
dorna intended merely TO delay the
enemy along the Livenza and would
not bring his full strength into the
battle until the Piave positions were
reached. For nearly two weeks the
italians have been preparing their pO-
sitions along this waterway. The re-
endorsements in men and guns sent
by British and French army stats are
held along this line
Turks Retiring in Palestine.
London, Nov. 9.-There are indica-
lions of a general retirement north
ward by the Turkish forces in PaIes-
tine, the war office announces.
Tekrit, on the Tigris river in Meso-
potamia, forty miles northwest Of Bag
dad, was occupied by the British No
vember S, the war office announced
today.
The British, says the official state
ment, pushed beyond GAIA on the right
to Observation-Disclosures Hill, dominat-
ing the town, and on the left to the
north. The advance also penetrated
as far as the mouth of the Wadi-Hesi,
eight miles north OF the original Brit
ish lines
British forces also continued their
advance from the Wady CherQah,
north of Beersheba, pushing further
northwest
Shell American Position.
With the American Army in France.
Nov. THE German artillery was
very active all last night and today,
shells of various calibers raining
around the American positions. So
thickly did they come at one time dur
ing the early hours this morning it
was thought another barrage was
on the American trenches. The Amer
leans were ready for the boche AMI
hoped he would try another raid. But
uone developed.
The American artillery gave the
Germans back shell for shell and add
ed a few for good measure, pounding
the enemy battery positions and
breaking shrapnel over their trenches
Rain has continued for days, and
vast seas Of mud now extend in every
direction. At some points the water
erunnig down the mountainous hills has
flower into the dugouts, the occupants
being forced to pump out repeatedly
in order that the dugouts might re-
main tenabIe
Germans Did Not Attack.
AOu0Ou- NOV. Or leu AdI SAd4
Haig's report from Flanders tonight
reads:
During the day the work of organ
izing our new positions at Passchen-
daele and on the high ground in the
neighborhod Of the village continued
without interruption from the enemy.
In spite of the great Importance which
it is known the enemy attached TO
this commanding locality, no hostile
reaction has yet followed lis capture.
Teutons Reach LiVenza-
Berlin, Nov. S.-AustroGerman
troops advancing in Northern Italy
have reached the line of the Livenza
river, army headquarters announced
in a supplementary statement tonight.
Several thousand prisoners were
taken
Couldn't Stop Canadians.
British Front in Belgium, Nov. l.
The Canadians, in today's drive
against the German lines, have ad-
vanced about 500 yards beyond the
center of PasschedaeIe, having battled
their way to their final marks. A con-
siderable number of prisoners already
boro obod tho cages