The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-11-02

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the Brenta River IN northern Italy to
the vicinity of the Adriatic Sea the
Austro-Eungarian are being violent
~ attacked by Italian, British,
French and American troops. IN the
mountain region the enemy is resist
ing desperately and holding his
ground fairly well. Eastsof the Piave
River howepes, he is in fight across
the plains oss TTreviso, shaping his
course soVer4the same territory through
swhici he drove the Ital alianssa year
ago when he reached the. eastern
edge OF the pla1ns OF Venetia.
Already numerous towns have been
liberated, zoe prisoners have been
taken and large numbers of guns ana
machine guns and huge quantities OF
stores ha We fallen into the hands or
the allied troops. Far behind the
lines allied aviators are heavily bomb
ing enemy col1unnss dense masses
which are IN retreat over the I adfy
congested roads leading eastward to-
ward the Austrian frontier.
Judging the situation from the rap
ia advance the allies are making II
would appear that the entire enemy
front has been broken least of the
pave and that with eNcausairy opers
.ating far in Advance of the infanfr''
the enemy forces viii be unable tor
form their battle lire until the Aus
trian border is reached. It is not - un-
likely that many of. the Austro-H
garians are doomed to capture or ex-
termination by the allies.
On the western fro1s in France and
Belgium there has. been q marked
sdinlinution in the intensity OF the
activity Along the British line there
have been only patrol encounters and
reciprocal bolnbardnents The French
however, are engaged IN another at
tack on a front Of about seven and q
half miles between st. Quentin-le-
Petit and HerpE, in the general direc-
ton of the enenays communication
lines running eastward from the old
st Quentin and Laon sectors and aise
with the purpose of driving a wedge
into this part OF the southern battle
line and thereby compel the enemy to
readjust his front through Cham
pagne ia the Meuse1 = ~ u :
Around Grand-Pre, north of the
Argonne forest, the Americans have
n.ateriallr bettered their positions in
attacks against the Germans:
8 Ti1e Bellejoyeuse farm which for
several days had been no mans land
now is virtually all held by the Amer
leans. East OF the Meuse there also
has been considerable fighting, but it
has resulted in no great change in po-
sition.
The big American guns are contin-
uing heavily to: shell German positions
far behind the lines and bombing
planes also are intensiveY active
against troop concentration points.
In air fighting the Americans We'd
nesday sent 81 German aviators fash
ing:to the ground Two of the Amer
lean f1iers are missing. On both
sides in both Servia and Mesopotarnia
the allied troops are still harassing
the enemy. Servian cavalry has ar
sired at the Danube,fa short dis
tance southeast Of Belgrade. In Mes
opotania the British advance has
proceeded $50 miles up the Tigris
River from Bagdad.
1t is reported that Turkey has in
xited the allies to send the air fleets
into the Bardanelles and also to land
small. detachment OF troops to SUI
5Iservise the utilization OF the
Turkish army