Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-07-02
ITALIANS FORCE
AUSTRIAN REAR
GUARD TO QUIT
Victors Reoccupy West Bank of
the Pave.
TAKE 5000 MORE CAPTIvES
Latins Attack Enemy on Mountain
Front and InfIict Heavy Losses
Emperor's Casualties Estimat-
ed at 100000.

Rome, June 26.-ltalian troops
forced the last rear guard of the re-
treating AuStrians to surrender and
completely reoccupied the west bank
of the Piaye river, the war office an
nounced.
On the mountain front between the
Piave and the Brenta, in the Monte
Grappa sector, the Italians vigorously
attacked the Austrians and inflicted
heavy losses upon them. The Italians
gained considerable ground.
Take 5000 More Prisoners.
The statement reads:
During Monday the Third army.
having obliged the last rear guard of
the enemy to surrender, completely
reoceupied the right bank of the Piave,
capturing Is officers and 1907 men.
along the northwestern front of
the Grappa our troops inflicted heavy
losses upon the enemy and gained con-
siderable advantages of ground. We
captured seven officers, 1926 of other
ranks and 16 machine guns. On June
23 and "a nine enemy machines were
brought down.
Austrians Lose 100000.
Paris, June Equestrian losses to-
tai 100000 men, according to the Sc
colo of Milan. Certain enemy divi-
sions lost two-thirds of their effectives.
A dispatch to the Matin from Turin
says that the rout of the Austrians is
complete and that the Piave has car
ried away many Austrian dead. Ital-
ian cavalry, it is added, have advanced
beyond the eastern bank of the river.
Flood flinders Pursuit.
Londonfi June 26.-The Italian line
along the Pave has been restored
right up to the waters edge on the
west bank of the river, the Evening
Standards advices report.
The Piave, it is added, began rising
again, washing away some of the
bridges the Italians had thrown across
the stream, thus hindering their pur-
suit of the Austrians.
A statement current in LonuC1 that
the Italians had taken $4,000 prisoners
is said by the morning newspapers to
be confirmed by the Italian embassy.
The same statement is attributed to
Premier Orlando by the Rome CORE
spondent of the Exchange Telegraph
company.
The same correspondent quotes the
Giornale D'Italia as saying that the
troops of Archduke Joseph and of Cen
eral Wurm are virtually surrounded
and must surrender or be annihilated.
The Vienna report insists that the
Italian losses in casualties and pris-
Oners in the present offensive number
some 10000, but this report is dis
counted here in view of the official
statement that General DiaZ's total
losses in dead, wounded and missing
are not in excess of 10000 men, which
number does not cover the enemy pris-
oners taken by the Italians.
That the total of captives will grow
is expected here in view of news dis
patches from the front, which insist
that the armies of Archduke Joseph
and General Won Wurm were nearly
surrounded. In the absence of official
information, however, it is contended
that these forces may have escaped, at
least in part.
Diaz' Chief of Staff Is Promoted.
General Badoglio, chief of staff to
General Diaz, has been promoted by
the king to the rank of army command
er as an expression of the kings sat
isfactiOn with the present operations.
General Badoglio will remain in his
present position.