Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-10-30
AMERICAN TROOPS
IN THE TRENCHES
G)NERAL PERSHlNG HAD SEW
ERAL INFANTRY BATTAl-
IONS IN ACTION
GIVE GERMANS HARD FIGHT
Sent Flame of Patriotism Throughout
This Country-Italians Get Awful
Beating from kaiser's Big Army
Lose 10000 Men.

WASHINGTON.-The nation was
thrilled Saturday by word that Amer
lean troops were face to face with
the Germans across no-man's land.
Announcement by General Pershing
that several battalions of his infantry
were in the front line trenches, sup
ported by American batteries which
already had gone into action against
the enemy, famed new flame of
patriotism throughout the country.
Final Phase of Training.
The absolute silence with which
Secretary Baker and war department
officials greeted the news, however,
showed that although the movement
had been expected at any time, it
was regarded only as the final phase
of the mems training-a military fin
ishing school conducted under fire
school of blood and iron. German
shells are breaking about the Ameri-
cans, and although they have not ia
ken over the trench sector, rifles,
machine guns, bombs and bayonets in
American hands will greet any enemy
attack.
Greatest Offensive of War.
Army Headquarters in Northern
Italy.-Virtually the entire Austrian
army, REINFORCED by heavy German
contingents, conducted by the re-
doubtable Field Marshal Won Macken-
sen, is now facing the Italian army
in the greatest offense since the be-
ginning of the war, with the evident
purpose of invading the Friuli region,
the easternmost province of Venezia.
He has massed 100000 Germans two
miles from the Italian border All
German troops now fighting on the
Italian border were taken from the
. Russian front Sixty thousand Ital
ians were taken prisoner by the Aus
trian-German forces and guns to the
l number of $50 captured
Allies Win in Flanders.
LONDON.-The entire Mercken
peninsula, near Dixmud, has been cap
tured by the entente forces and add
tional prisoners also have been taken
The text of the statement follows
l "Durink the course of the day opeI
ations by French and Belgian force
north of Merckem were successful.
carried out The village of Luyghen
s. was captured Sunday morning by tn
IL French troops and the whole Mercker
r peninsula now is in the hands of tn
D. allies. A further number of prisoner
.e has been captured"
> Entire italian Line Gone.
a. The Austro-German armies unde
the command of Emperor Charles, VIII
10 has as his chief assistant the brillian
w Field Marshal Won Mackensen, al
II shaking the entire Italian line froI
Is the Julian Alps region to the Adriati
le sea- Pressing back the Italians {
L. several points on Italian soil, the con
le bined enemy forces now have pushe
,el forward on the Italian left wing an
O. captured Cividale, lying to the nortl
ID east of Udine, and are nearing til
no plains beyond In addition. the Au
ty trian town of Gorilla, point of gre;
an strategic value on the Isonzo rive
has been retaken from the Italians.
ne Berlin Reports Italian Prisoners.
III According to the latest Berlin of
- cial communication 100000 Italian
have been made prisoner and in eXcei
~ of zoo guns have fallen into Austr
-, German hands. The second and THU
IL Italian armies are declared to be
ia retreat