The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-29
Italian Patrols Cross the Mon.
ticanO River.
Advance Ten Miles From Bank
of Piaye.
IS, 900 PRISONERS ARE TAKEN
Italians, British, French in a
Great Victory.
Allies Within Two Miles of Aus.
trian Rail Centers.

Italian Army Headquarters,
Oct. 29.-Conegliano, a town
five miles northeast of the left
bank Of the river Piave, has
been captured by the allied
forces.
The whole allied line between
Conegliano, which is an i'm
portant railway and road CEN
ter. and Val Dobbiandendo has
been advanced.
Rome. oct. 29-Italian troops,
after storming the heights of Colfosco.
have entered Su o ana. four miles
southwest of CuneSliano, the Italian
war Office announced today.
The Italians have crossed the Mon
ticano ri ,er. beyond the Piave.
-Four thousand additional prisoners
were counted yesterday tmaking an
official total of 5000 in two days..
Alamo. on the left bank of the Ornic
river, WIS reca ptured. (This village
was captured by the Italians early in
the offen sive, but was fetaken by the
Austrians).
The eighth army has carried the
gana,' the communiIue stated. 'Ad-
vancements of the tenth army are on
the left bank of the Monticano.
Numerous guns and 1000 prison
ers taken yesterday have been count
ed. Others are still on the left bank
of the Piave.
"On the lert bank of the Ornic
Alamo Gi Piave has. been taken with
several hundred prisoners"
With the Allied Forces on the Piave.
oct. 23.-The last lines of the Austro-
Hungarian resistance on the central
positions along the Piave river were
broken today by the British, French
and Italian forces.
The Austrians were dealt smash
ing blow. 1t resulted in the allies
making new advances. pushing for
ward as far as Vayolla, which was
txzen by the victorious Italians not
wlthstanding desperate resistance.
Qy the Associated Pressl
Allied troops maintain their prog
ress east of the Piave and have taken
more than 5000 prisoner. The Ital-
ian, British and French seriously
threaten the important railroad points
of Conegliano and Oderzo and two of
the three railway lines supporting the
Austro- HunGarians on the Piave front.
While the allies have thrown forces
across the Piave on a front of about
thirty miles the heaviest fighting has
been along a stretch of seven Lilies be-
tween ConeSliano and Oderzo. where
tlfe Italians and British have ad-
vanced. several miles, making a for
midable wedge in the Austrian posi-
tions east of the river and between two
of their main communica ton lines.
The allies are within two miles of both
ConeGliano and Oderzo. Along the
Piave south of Oderzo there has been
little firhting but the allied advance in
the north would tend to force the
Austrians to evacuate the lowlands of
the lower Piave.
They Were Feints.
Apparently the allied thrusts in the
mountain zone between the Piave and
the Brenta were feints for the pur-
pose of attracting the attention of the
enemy from the more formidable
movement across the Piave. Troops
and supplies are being rushed to the
Piave front and it is evidently pur-
posed TO force the offensive to the ut
most.
Americans Arc There.
In addition to the British, Italian
and French troops already taking part
in the fighting, American troops are
reported to be in reserve. The Ameri-
can infantry force is not large prob
ably two regiments or less, and not un-
likely will be brigaded with the It
alians or British. The fighting east OF
the Piave has been very heavy the
Austrians struggling bitterly to pre-
vent the allies from enlarging theiI
gains on the east hank.
Six Divisions Out.
London. Oct. 29.-SiX Austrian divi-
sions have lost more than fifty pei
cent of their effectives, so far, in the
AngIo-Italian offensive, according to {
dispatch from Rome TO-DAY.
Advance Ten Miles.
With the Italian Armies in the Field