Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1918 — FRIDAY WAR SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

FRIDAY WAR SUMMARY.

Austria’s military power is facing tctal destruction which nothing but an' immediate armistice will prevent, latest reports from, the batt’e fronts of Europe indicate Italy’s armies, aided by British, French, Americans and Czecho-Slo-vaks, are pursuing the fleeing enemy from the Asaigo plateau to the Adriatic Sea, Rome reports. The Austrians have lost more thah 50,000 men in prisoners, vast quantities of guns, war supplies and materials. Rome officially reports the Austrian armie sin flibht to the Tagliamento River.

From the Brnta River to ths Swiss border fifteen Austrian divisions, approximately J. 80,000 men, face disaster. They are cut off from the Austrian armies to the east and south, and their only way of escape lies oyer the tortuous Trentino mountain regions. The only, good pathway has befen cut by the British. Yet another menace for the Austrians arises in the east. Vienna officially reports withdrawal of Austrian troops from Serbia across the Danube, and that Albania is being abandoned as rapidly as possible. This gives the Czecho-Slovak troops an opportunity to join forces with the French and Serbians, whose guns have been hurling shells across the Danube for several days, and Budapest reports fears of an attack upon that city. . While Austria’s fprces are in such dire distress, German armies are being given no rest. British, Belgian, French and America ntroops have cut a big slice of Belgian territory out of the kaiser’s hands in a new drive east of Courtrai, and the fall of Ghent is imminent.

Great aerial activity on the Belgian front presages a general attaok. From the Serre through Champagne the French continue to nibble away at the German lines. On the ArgonneMeuse front the Americans are resting, on their arms, while here, too, great aerial activity indicates a renewal of the American drive down the Meuse. Turkey is virtually out of it, and demobilization of her forces is -expected hourly to be officially announced-