Show AUSTRIAN MILf MILE IS SMASHED I atins Rush Forward J Through Snowdrifts land end I Hurl Foes From Asiago Line Take 1500 Captive REPULSE IS DOUBLE STROKE TO Setback Will Arouse Peace A Agitators g i tors' tors t to Fresh Outcries Outcries Outcries Out Out- cries and Force Hindenburg a to Defer Western Drive Br By International Int N News Newn S S lc T O ONDON ON Jan 29 L f At At a moment when the Austrian home front frontis is believed to be bc on the brink of collapse collapse collapse col col- lapse the Italians have dealt a staggering staggering staggering stag stag- gering blow blo to the dual monarchy's army On Ou a a. front of nearly ten miles between the time Asiago and tho the Brenta r river ricer cr where a n. few weeks ago the were but eight miles from the Y Venetian plains and victory General General Gen Gen- eral Din Diaz 1 north northern rn army surged forward forward for for- ward yesterday A through two feet o of r snow and in a fierce to loot loot foot to-foot combat pressed ba back k their opponents throwing them from important dominating dominating dom dom- positions Fifteen hundred prisoners among amonI them two sixty-two officers had been counted up to late today The drIve is still going on though for tor the the- themo moment moment moment mo mo- ment localized ed The line thus smashed was as held mainly by Austro I Italy tikes Taken Upper Haag Baad Overnight Italy tah who was to have hn been beon put out of or the war before snow fell tell has once more mOIe rl risen cn to a dominating dominating ing plane In the allied military ca cal cat cat- For the aha sha has ha- sud suddenly enl become the most menacing foe for tor if IC the success Is followed up and the Austrians Austrian suffer Butter a large largo scale defeat the effect upon the time weary war Austrian masses will be bo incalculable Moreover oreo er faces a n. now ultimatum from Crom the Austrian staff an and ma may have have to to throw his ambitious we western tern plans overboard o to save Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's man all ally Warm arm praise e Is given Iven In Gener General 1 Diaz report for Cor the effective cooperation cooperation op co cration of or the French and aDd British armies Indirect admission of the reverse came from the Berlin war office though the result was s minim minimized bed Ier Significant But that it is no flash in hl the pan I b shown b by the tho opening paragraph of the German report The Th Italians have begun a strong tron I offensive v and dare are attack attacking hIS hIS' tho the Austro- Austro Gorman German positions between Asiago Asago an anthe and the Brenta It then asserts the thc attackers r gained a n momentary foothold at ono one point that the time assault in tho the main brol broke e down and that thal ten officers and men were cre captured by the defenders The Thc front of or tho Italian atta attack k ex- ex extends x tends westward from Monto Monte Grappa which has come como to be called the Malian Italian Verdun It was here that the tho came camo n near ar breaking through to the plains via the valley when their recent campaign reached Its zenith It Is here also where any major majorI I Italian advance unco must inevitably shaka ak I or disrupt the time whole line ht menu Mean Hun lIun Rout A break through on a n. large scale would indeed Inde 1 sever lever the Tren tino lIno front that along ulong tho the Piave n and d might completely complete turn the tables on the thc recently successful and confident Invaders ht When the vo stopped th the tb f Continued O oli m I Page Pae 3 Section 2 1 ITALIANS SMASH INVADERS INVADERS' NV ADERS' ADERS LINES C Continued 1 el From P Page e 1 Section 1 I Italian defense e had got down to the thC bare hare bones bone of ot Grappa mountain Ros Ro ROSSO o hill bill and find Monte tonte Val Della Bella had fallen faJen and the Invaders In had advanced to within two miles of or Valstagna at nt the con- con of or the and fronts Drenta rivers rivera Once the remal remaining ln defenses were wera cru crushed hed tho the advance ad southward to Bassano eight miles below would have been a foregone conclusion tho the Piave line lino turned and Venice doomed Sno Checked Che Ins rn Then came the snow now and all thoughts of pushing the drive had to be aban aban- Thus Titus the lie situation stood until the tho Italians with yesterdays ys stroke thrust back the tho invaders invaders' menace and turned defense Into offensive e The road northward is a laborious one but the Italians have used tho the recent lull to make Inake thorough pl preparations para Lions Hons From Prom the bases In the plain a ate few miles b below v a steady teady stream of or re re- re I I serves series and supplies pours to them while the tho Touton communication fa facilities a- a duties are cumbersome in the extrom ex ex- ex e. e Moreover er the Italian offensive comes conies at a a. time when all Hungary Austria i is clamoring for peace veaco and anti when theon the on only I thing needed to make revolt re an actual fact act is IR defection In tho the arm army Cripples antI anil are the only male civilians In the tue weary wean cities and countr country er E Every man from flon IS 18 to o Is in the tho army armr and ahll cr c every man luau from Crom 50 0 to Is doing army arm work vork in the Cl quartermasters quartermaster's ua depa department 1 All ll boys hos born in 1000 1900 antI and 1 1901 01 have ha been called to the colors Ma 18 Break A Morale ort Thus through Italy Itah the allies may mar achieve o what hat the masses o of cripples women and ch children lId ron could only clamor for for for-a a breakdown n of or the Hun Austro garion garian military morale as the n result sull of a decisive defeat at or even en only a partial martial retreat from the regions swept b by the tho recent invasion In SU Jl i a R break breakdown own it 1 I is cd would Inevitably bl lead ael to one of two things things ut A real revolution rc In the flaps flaps- burg L empire or a separate peace by hr that monarchy monarch to to avert mert such n a catas catas- troph e. e Fighting activity In the w west st during dur ing jg the Ja last Jast t twenty four hours was again aln confined to rains raids and artillery activity v It The French scored cor a f 1 local oa 1 raiding success b by penetrating th the Gerin German n lines linos in to th the west vest of oC le Ie II hauL au t The Tile British h repulsed a German raid rold but hut admittedly h lost a patrol n near ar Ypres TJ The Arabs 4 ar are proving valuable allIs allI's allies al allies al- al lies lIs of or the British against the tho Turks s 3 as is evidenced toda today again b by the re report ye- ye port pid from the S Syrian rian front that In the tile last ten tn days A Arabs hI ha have In Inflicted I r JOl losses loso CS on Ott Ottoman man po posts 1055 t to the south of Mann Maan ju Jut t east cast of Suez SUCK I |