The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-11-08
AUSTRIAN ARMIES
ARE OVERWHELMED
GREAT QUANTITIES % WAR
STORES FALL INTO HANDS
OF ITALIANS
$4,000 PRISONERS IN CAGES
Allied Victories Continue in Belgium
and France.-French and Serbian
Cavalry Marrying Huns
Fleeing From Serbia
$4,000 PRISONERS IN CAGES
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From the mountain regions of north
ern Italy to the plains of Venetia am
on salient sectors in Belgium an,
France the armies of the Teutonic al
lies are being violently attacked b,
troops of the entente.
In Italy, except on several sector,
in the hill country, the enemy is fast
being overwhelmed in both Belgium
and France additional splendid gains
have been recorded in favor of the
entente. in the achievement of which
men from the United States took a
goodly part.
Evacuating Serbia.
In Serbia the AuStrians and Ger
mans are fast making their way out
of the little kingdom, many of them
already having crossed the Danube.
French and Serbian cavalry have
reached Belgrade. from where fast
turning movement westward along
the Save river is likely to work havoc
with those of the enemy forces coming
northward through Albania.
So far as Turkey is concerned, her
capitulation is an abject one. and the
Ottoman no longer is to prove fac
tor in the world war.
Although the new smashes of the
British, French and Americans in Bel
GUM and France have been markedly
successful in the carrying out of the
general program of Kidding French
and Belgian soil of the invaders. lit
is still the Italian theater on which
the eyes of the world are conferred.
Internal strife in Germany and Ans
tria-Hungary and continued peadings
from the dual monarchy for an arrlis-
tice and a cessation of hostilities have
received scant notice when compared
with the impression that the wonder
full drive of the Italians and their al
lies against the Austro- Hungarians
has made upon the world ut large.
Italians Winning Everywhere.
Everywhere the enemy is being de-
faated in Italy. In the Alpine region. |
where the natural barriers had acted |
as bastiOns of defense. the enemy line |
has been broken at salient points and
the foe is compelled to seek safety in |
retreat to further mountain strong |
holds. On the plains the retrograde |
movement of the enemy toward the
Tagliamento river is virtually a COM |
pIefe r0ut, with allied airplanes yio-
Iently attacking with machine guns
the throngS of the enemy hlrrying
pieces the stragglers. and The infan-
try and machine gunners taking a
heavy toll in men killed or wounded.
Many Prisoners Taken.
Great numbers of the Austro- Hun
garians still continue To he winnowed
back of the line to the prison cages.
total captures in the drive now ex-
eeeding $4,000 enemy soldiers Large
quantities of stores are still falling
INTO the hands of the entente forces
md numerous additional towns have
been liberated. More than 100 guns
already have been added to the store
If other trophies taken by the allies.
In Belgium, along the Scheldt from
8erchem to Gayere, King Albert's men
ave pressed forward in the general
direction of Client, and at last ac-
counts We're standing on the western | !
ide of the canal which the Germans
lad hoped before the concentrated at
ack was begun against them some
ime ago would prove strong point
n their defensive system in the north.
TO the south, below NaIenciennes.
English and Canadian troops have
riven the German line farther east +,
Yard over front of six miles, in
Letting exceptionally heavy casualties q
n the enemy and drawing their line :,
lmost to the outskirts of southern ;.
'alenciennes. Several thousand pris-
ners were taken in the enterprise.
On the southern part of the front !
he French and American troops are :
irving northward over wide fronts. !.
Tearing the enemy from the terri =
Try which it is essential for him to
old If his line from Belgium to the :
[euse is to be retained intact. Spleen !
id progress has been made in the !
rst stages of the battle. and seem =
Igly the great wooded massif north s
Grand Pre-, a continuation Of the :
rgonne forest, is likely soon to be =
1veloped, leaving only comparative :
strong natural barriers to be faced :
7 the allies in an advance northward. :
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