Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-01
Austrians Are Fleeing Rap idly Across Plains To-
 ward Own Frontiers.
MAY NEVER REACH
 DESIRED MOUNTAINS
| Fifteen Austrian Divisions
 Have Been Isolated From Army on Piave
(Early Associated Press War Sum-

(Early Associated Press War Sum mary.)
 Disaster faces the Austro-Hungar- ian armies from the St. Elvio to the 'Adriatic as they retreat from Italian territory All the Italian armies now have entered the great offensive 'against the Austrians and the all lied troops are advancing rapidly along the entire front from Lake Garda to the Adriatic.
 Fighting activity on the western front remains at a virtual standstill. There have been only isolated actions at several points.
 Shattered by the irresistible ad- vance of the Italians, British and French across the Piave, the Aus trians are fleeing rapidly across the plains of eastern Venetia toward the line of the Isonzo from which they advanced one year ago. American troops 2are participating in the ad-
 yhich already has reached the out skirts of Sacile, 15 miles east of the Pave. The total of Austrian pris- oners is approaching 10000
 which were along the Piave will have great difficulty in reaching the hills east of the 1sonzo. ,
 They have been separated from the armies in the mountains west of the Piave and the allies already threaten their rear from the region of Wit torio. Along the Lower Piave the Italian Third Army has crossed the river and taken up the pursuit. In the center the Italians have taken have advanced beyond Vittorio in the direction of Belluno.
 In retreating across the plains over the s miles between the Piave and lhe Isonzo the Austrians rush back ward as through a narrow hallway. walled in on the north by the Carnic Alps and on the south of the Adriatic. From the manner in which the allies have driven in. their wedge west of the 'Piave it apparently is the in- tention to outflank the Austrians on the north in the foothills of the Alps and crush them from both the north and the west.
 The situation of the Austrians guarding the Trentino along the front from the west of Lake Garda to the Plave also is becoming serious. Be- tween the Brenta and the Piave the fifteen Austrian divisions operating there. have been cut off by the cap- ture of Badal pass. Elsewhere oil this front the Austrians must re- treat northward through the Alps with the Italians. British and French pressing hard at their heels. If, as the Italians are attacking from St. Elvio southward to Lake Garda. as well as eastward from the lake, the allies have begun the fla lniliar pincer movement in the Trentino.
 Austrian troops also are retiring from Serbia and the left wing already has crossed the Danube, Vienna an- Ecunces. The Serbs have reached the Danube near Semendria and the fall of Belgrade and the complete of Serbia would seem but the matter of few days. If not hours. In western Serbia the Aus trlens also are marchin gn0rth to- ward the Danube.
 There has been little change in tho situation on the western front. Rl :tish patrols have been active on inc important sector between Val enciennes and'.s '.sIe, Quesnoy and have madep, rogress north of Valenciennes. In Champagne the French haze re- rulsed af German counter Y attack northwest of Chateau Poreein. The EI.th French army. fighting in this region has taken nearly 1900 prison CTS in the last two days.