Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1918 — TUESDAY WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

TUESDAY WAR SUMMARY.

The Italian theater of war held the center of the stage today as far as large scale fighting is Along a front of at least twenty miles the Italian and British forces have thrown the Austrians out of strongly organised and stubbornly defended positions. The fighting was particularly fierce north of the bend of the Piave, near the great Montello Bulwark, where the Piave was crossed in the initial phase of the drive. Farther south British troops are now nearly five miles east of the Piave. New crossings were made by the Italians in Sunday’s attacks. Up to early today 9,000 prisoners, had been counted by the Italians. The British have taken 7,00 prisoners, making a total of 16,000. Nearly 100 guns also have been taken. On the west front four French armies are puslung hard after the Germans all the way between the Oise and the Aisne, in a concentric drive on Hirson and Mezieres. The enemy ‘is covering his retreat "by .a screen of machine gunners. At some points, however, the withdrawal is reported to be taking on the character of a flight. There is a lull on the British and Belgian fronts.