The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-10-30
MAY FORCE RETREAT
Foch' s Strategy Develops
Full Fury Of Attack
In Venetia.
VENDETTA DRIVE
Soldiers of Invaded Coun-
try Spurred On BY
Memory Of Last
Years Crash.

LOndOn, Oct. ~. - ltdly IN
Venetian vendetta campaign IN
hourly gaining in momentuns|
Aided by strong British forces
General Diaz's eighth and
tenth armies swept forward
again during the last twenty
four hours, crashing through
the Austrian Pave line, cross.
ing the Monticano river nearly
ten miles east Of the Piavc and
driving a deep, menac;ng
wedge into the Austrian lines
northeast Of Trevise, which
may momentarily force a large
scale enemy retreat. d
Late this evening 10, 600 adj
ditional prisoners had been
counted, bringing the grand to-
tai since the inception Of the
drive up to $4,000. Six Aus
trian divisions have been hadlv
cut up and virtually put ont An
commission.
At no time since he gained the int
ttAtive has Foch's attacking uaAthnds
been more strikingiy and suceSeAsuily
illustrated than in this great An8lo-s
italian smash over the sixty -ntle 'front.'
from the Asiago Plateau around thu
Piave bend at Monticello down to tt1As
piayeAs~ - N4ot In
has the contrast between Fochss and
Ludendorns tactics more CLEARLY
shown dtsen. q The 0srfnan A1Max
put all his eggs IN one basket. ~ fIts
all his great drives he put svery ounce
Of metal and man-power into the tll-S
itial smash. Each of his offenGfx44s
started out with the crushing force ofsl
a typhoon and soon siYnmered down
to hammer-and-tongs warfare. s ~
Foch strikes his initial blows hard
but holds his main strength Ia ress
serve. His drives are progressive ~
stead OF slackening. He combines
wearing down warfare with the wAr~s
fare of humiliation. 81
The fruits OF his tactics are begin
ming to show themselves The Aus
TRAN resistance Is weakening.'' ~.
nounces the British war ONCE toni&hts
General Diaz was able TO announces
today that his armies are Armly I'll
possession OF the east bank ~ III
demo to the Treviso- Cderxo railway
a front of nearly thirty mites. Il
| Troops Of the italian eighth ArSa4$
after taking by storm the fsrcely 49,
Tended Colfeso heights. entered G1s7
CANA. four miles to the southeast YI
Ornic has been crossed and A1166s3
which had been retakeu BY the 49,
TRANS early In the drive. Is again
| Italian hands SsssS
Ion the mountainous front between tll6g
| Brenta and the Piave. II II ind1e4 ~
typical Foch drive. with every day l1
fact. every hour, bringing new hl0Wg
| in various sectors. Il 3sH
For the Italians It II truly 49,
delta drive ~
| King Victor Emmanuers solAief(
are rushing into battle crying: -
member Caporette." The anniversary
of that disaster il approAchinx. Italy
tarmfes In this drive hght with Z Sclx1
that lifts the. bloody work of M =
to a higher plane. For them th1G RI r.
crusade. They want to SO ~ k
trians staggering back 10 and
the Tagiiamento. and hack III ~
Izonso. They want 70 DO With 10
net and trench knife To thu l15
Hapsburg troops what the II
Hoetzendorn. under LuaeHde u
rection. did with propaganda ~ ~
orette twelve months Aao.
The AuatriAns were NUH p&oH41k
for this offensive. They - GS9n ylt1yF
opposing the Italo- Brittah 16yf
with 100000 troops an = tW0ntx
mile front-e4.000 troopa to- n
For weeks these troopsmOGtiy
man-Austrians ana MaGyax qN