The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-01
DEM0LISH ARMY
OF AUSTRIAN ON
FRONT IN ITALY
Allies Gain by Leaps and
Bounds Today.
Advance So Fast Cannot Count
Prisoners.
ENTIRE GRAPPA FRONT FALLS
All of Austrian Artillery Is
Taken in Sector.
10000 Italians Held by Aus
triaps Liberated.
Venetian Plains Completely
Overrun by VictOrs.

London Nov. Negotiations be-
tween the Italian and Austro- o-Hungar-
ian military commanders for an ar
mistice are proceeding, according to
advices received in London this after
noon. Fighting may already have
come to an end.
Versailles, Nov. 1.-Representatives
of the allied nations began their de-
liberations at the supreme war council
shortly after noon today.
Washington, Nov. 1. Austrian
forces have evacuated Udine, aban-
doning vast quantities of war mater
ials and supplies in their hasty flight,
a dispatch to the Italian embassy to-
day reported. 1t had been used since
last November as the headquarters of
the enemy government in the occupied
Italian territory. l'~
Udine is forty-five miles from the
Piave and only twelve miles from the
Austro-Italiao border.--4ss-s-ss-s.s.. .s-- -
The Italian advance is continuing
on a front of more than 125 miles, de-
spite the Austrian appeals for an i'm
mediate armistice, it was officially re-
ported in q dispatch from General
Diaz to the Italian embassy here today.
The Austrians, the dispatch said,
the Tagliamento. pursued by the al
lied forces under Duke D'Aosta.
The Tagliamento, which forms the
principal defensive line between the
Piave and the Isonzo flows from twen-
ty to thirty miles inside the eastern
boundary Of Italy.
The Italian fourth army is advance
Ing in the Grappa region against the
Austrians, who were cut off by the
-ieft wing of the third army. These
enemy forces believed to number
more than 100000, are offering heavy
resistance.
The Austrians also are putting up a
desperate fight beyond Belluno to pre-
vent the conjunction of the Italians
advancing up the Piave valley with
those who have driven a huge salient
into the Austrian lines in the Trentino
region.
Attempted counter attacks have
been completely repulsed.
washington. Nov. 1.-OfficiaI Rome
uispatches today describing the VIC
torious sweep Of Italian and allfe1
armies that is demolishing the Aus
Iran t front say the lines are moving
forward in such great leaps that it no
longer is possible to identify towns re-
taken or to count prisoners and guns
captured or Italians liberated.
Austrlas armies. shattered by the
biows or the Italians. British and
frehch are fleeing pellmell on a front
or more than 100 miles. from the
Brenta river east and south to the
Adrlatic. Apparently the enemy ha 6
iost all power of resistance on the inn
portant sectors of the front. Countless
numbers of prisoners are being taken
by the allies
Cannot Estimate Prisoners.
Italian Headquarters East of the
tIave. t, NOV. The Austrians con-
tinue TO retire hastily in the plains and
the allies are capturing MANY prison
erSs the number of which cannot he
estimated accurately.
In the mountain regions the Ans
trlans are resisting somewhat but
their defensive power is waning ran
idly. zap
20 Miles from Piave.
Rome Nov. 1.-The Italians are
completely over-running the Venetia n
plains. The war office announcad 20
day that Italian troops have reacbed
tadalto, twenty miles beyond the Pi
ave and are rapidly approaching ReI-
luno and Aviano, both of which are
twenty-five miles from the river.
Rescue 10000 Italians.
Washington, Nov. 1.-Sixty thou.
sano ltailans held by the enemy ia
have been released.
With the Austrians everywhere IN
hight and the Italian armies on twr
wings about to unite, it is said 10 he
ihpossipie 10 1oresee where the few
enemy divisions that escape will 60
running. SUI
Save the Country.
Paris. Nov. 1.-The Austro- -Hunear.
ian commander on the Italian front ir
asking General DiaZ for an immedi, r.
armistice. argued that under sucb a :
arrangement, Venetia would be eyacu.
ated without damage to the cultiyatef
areas. according to a Budapest dis.
patch to L1nformation.
Rome, Nov. In their offensive
against the Austrians on the Monte
Grappa front in northern italy the
italians have pressed the enemy 81
strongly that his front has collapsed
the war office announced today.
The Italians have forced the eors,
OF 2uero. have passed beyond the spu,
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