The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-10-28
Allies Drive Austro-GermanS on
Forty-five- Mile Front, InfIict-
ing Many Casualties.
YANkS CAPTURE HILL
Position, important for Observation
Purposes, Was Strongly Defended
Foe Loses $4,000 Men In
Four Days Fighting.

Paris, Oct. 28.-In four days the
Germans have lost well up toward
$1,000 prisoners and 200 guns.
Their total Losses Of electives a m
not have been less than $4,000.
Paris, Oct. 28.-The Allies are
driving the Austro-Germans north
ward on the whole 45-mlIe front
between Parachin and kraIlevo,
the war office
Along the Danube an enemy
monitor has been damaged by
French artillery. French patrols
inflicted casualties on enemy de-
tachments.
London, Oct. 2s.-British and
French troops are attacking be-
tween the Lys and the Escaut
~(ScheIdt), east of Courtrai Ga front
of about is mlIes), Field Marshal
Haig announced In a special COM
munIque on Belgian operations.
The British have captured oote-
Chem and Ineoyshem (seven miles
west Of Audenarde). The French
have reached zuIte (nlne miles
northwest of Audenarde).
London, Oct. 2s.-While the British,
French and Americans are slowly
breaking their way through the stub
born German defense along the line
south of Valenciennes, the attention
of the Allied world Is directed, for the
moment at least, to the Italian front,
where General Diaz seems to have
started a major operation.
Fighting in large scale appears to
have begun when the Austrian official
statement reported heavy artillery
fire from the Brenta river to the Mon
tello plateau. 1t was reported that
Italian, British and French forces at
tackled between the Brenta and Piave
rivers and advanced over rough coun-
try for a considerable distance. At
the same time the Allies moved ahead
and captured islands in the Piave
above the Montello plateau.
May Split Armies.
This stroke was aimed at the angle
In the Austrian line which runs from
the Adriatic along the Piave until 1t
reaches the mountains and then turns
to the west. IL the Allied attack
makes material progress the Austrian
armies on the lowlands near the sea
and those holding the front in the
mountainous sector may be divided.
The number of prisoners taken,
5000, would seem to indicate fighting
of a serious nature. 1t is too early to
determine whether General Diaz has
really begun an offensive or is merely
directing an operation which is in the
nature of a diversion.
Yanks Capture Hill.
Southwest of Damvillers, in the
Mouse sector, American forces have
captured Hill $50, q height which is
important for observation purposes,
and which was stubbornly defended
by the Germans. Near Grand Pre- the
Americans have forged still further
ahead and appear to be forming quite
a large pocket in the German lines on
the eastern side of the Argonne forest.
American heavy artillery has been
pounding German concentration points
during the last couple of days.
British divisions I'm Mesopotamia
have resumed their offensive against
the Turks. Fighting in that region is
next to impossible during the heat OF
the summer. Now that autumn has
come it may be expected that there
will be an effort to form a junction
between the forces along the Tigris
and those operating north and east of
Damascus.