Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-07
D|Az'S SOLDIERS
. FORCE AUSTR|ANS
BACK FROM pave
Vienna War Office Admits
Evacuation of Their Adj
vanced Positions.
LITTLE IMPORTANT FIGHTING
IN OTHER THEATERS OF WAR
Success of Allies on Various
Fronts Has Appearance of
Local Offensive.
MAY BE START OF BIG DRIVE
LudendorY Believed to Be Prepar.
ing for One More Gigantic
Effort. 49,
LITTLE IMPORTANT FIGHTING
IN OTHER THEATERS OF WAR
MAY BE START OF BIG DRIVE
hudendorff Believed to Be Prepar-
ing for One More Gigantic
Effort. 40

Outstanding in yesterdays war news
was General Diaz's official reuort
which comes as a splendid climax. to
the brilliant counteroffensive the Ital.
ians have been carrying on ever since
the Austrian drive was checked AZ
ter fierce hve-day battle, the Latins
yesterday afternoon cleared the who,A
marshy region between Capo Sile ana
the Piave. in the delta formed by. the g
old and new courses of that river. 4
The enemy was driven to the leftl5
bank OF the new Piave," Diaz an
KAISER karrs troops had taken In their
first onrush June Is have been wrest-
ed from them.
A list of tremendous booty tae.en
since that date by the Italians IS an
pended to the italian commanders vic
tory report. The total number or
prisoners is 24,4S4. but the numbcr~ot
rifles captured t37.1o5) shows the ter
rifle toll the Austrian rifemen alone
must have suffered. Not only were
huge stores OF enemy material and mu-
nitions. including 5000, 900 rife cart
ridges garnered In by. the Italians. hut
the latter gathered hack all the ma
teriai and artillery lost In the first
day of the battle. fs,f#
The Vienna War Office grudefnEly
admitted the new defeat saying, on
the southern wing the Austrian troops
were pressed back to our main body"
the main body being. Of course, on,
the eastern side of the new Piave, SO
that this would. in plain English. mean
I'VE were driven hack across the new
Piave"
AMERICANS RE.AT OFF 4-s
ATTACK IN LORRAINE
On the western front the Americans
once more distinguished themselves by
their staying power. They beat off,
according to the French afternoon COM
muniQue. German raids in Lorraine.
ut Nivray, the village that has been
the scene of so many encounters be-
tween the Yankee troops and Ger.
mans. 1t lies two and 4 half miles
west OF seicheprey, where the Ameri-
cans scored their first large-scaie VIC
tory in Eastern France.
The British improved their lines east
of AmicnS, advancing on front of
1000 yards to the northeast Of Villers-
BretonneuX. They also took prisoners
in raids. The French beat off German
raiding attempts in various sectors and
were successful in minor operations
a generally quiet day wound UP a
week OF brilliant local successes scored
by Americans. French. British and
Italian troops on the Marnc, south Of
the ha a
in Flanders and on the vital sectors of
the Italian theater. so successful were
these various blows struck against the <
troops of the two Teuton empires and +
so considerable the bags of prisoners
that. taken all together, they appeared {
in the light Of local offensive which
may well have been the beginning OF
n large scale counterdrive by the allies,
aimed nj delivering crushing answer
in one huge stroke to all the desperate
offensives Ludendorff has launched this
year 50
Meanwhile the German chief himself
is believed to be preparing for the last
big effort. Scarcely three months OF
good battle weather are left. and an
other drive without decision will end
the year for the Germans with lot
of map Victories" and with the tre.~
IlitutouS tiluS TO allleQ InllllaTy
strength In the form OF Americas nils
lions to be faced next year by a terri
fcally mauled and worn war machine
and-even worse-with winter OF un-
precedented misery staring the weary
German people in the face.
In every European capital expectancy
is keyed TO the highest pitch. Military a
events of decisive Importance seem 10
be lin the air" Russia is looming
larger and larger rs vital factor in
the conflict Two actual thea aters OF :
war in the east already exist. In far-5e-
off Siberia Red Guards. Czecho -SlovakS Il
and Cossacks are ighting bitter bat- 3
Ties with the Czecho -Slovaks apparent-
ly everywhere holding the upper hand.l&
Nladivostolt is reported definitely in
their hands and so is large stretche
Of tire Trans Siberian Railway TheiEsss
army is estimated variously at between
$4,000 and 1000
General Count Won Mirbach. Germanse
ambassador to Russia. has been assss-
sinated at Moscow, according to a Beg.